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To: Depression, renamed WebOfDistress and Fans [Existing or Potential] – First Posted February 12, 2008 and Updated March 9, 2008 to reflect artist name change - [Detach Player on WebOfDistress' Uploads on 22. Serial Dreamer and 10. In Memory Of Our Dreams [or for that matter any other piece in the Serial Dreams collection at Toyz For Insominiacs' Playlist] while checking out this review and provide additional commentary below]
I checked out both (i) Serial Dreamer - Part 1 and (ii) In Memory Of Our Dreams because I was hooked by your narrative and undertaking to translate the brain's retrospective memory of a semi-conscious ("dreamlike but nonetheless real mental state) into present aural sensibilities.
This is a fascinating and challenging experiment to determine if you can identify a common "signature" of mental activity that can be shared by all but stemming from one's individual creative insight. In my view, those trying to push out the envelope of "experimental music" should help us more [as you have undertaken to do] to give us the "real-time" impressionistic factors that go into the aural production - otherwise so-called, experimental music, all too often blends together as background ambient sound [which also may be OK but of less architectural significance and, thus, incapable of iterative development].
Upon listening to the two pieces thrice over, I myself detect the beginnings of a collective signature of "dreaming" but this may be because of (i) the haunting repetition of sounds that become urgent as often happens when our minds hover at the edge of consciousness in our dreams and (ii) your own descriptive preconditioning of my mind and ear by letting me know in advance that this was "all about dreams". All of this is OK by me because that is what experimenting with our mental and aural sensibilities is all about. However, I think this series could well benefit from complete album play [which I understand is in process] coupled with some more specific narrative throughout about what is different and what is similar about the dream series [such as your sharing the dream with a woman in Part 2 of your series - how indeed is this possible? it would be instructive to know how you came to this conclusion with your dream-sharer and how it translated to mood and concept]. In so saying and requesting, I fully appreciate that this is an exceedingly difficult artistic challenge.
Due to the length of my mental ruminations as I listen, I will also post this as a review to see how my [and your listeners] views evolve regarding your Serial Dream pieces. In the meantime, thanks for your artistic endeavor and your explanation of the direction in which you are heading with these pieces.
[NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast". Since Fuzz Artists are constantly evolving, as are our own perspectives, I think Fuzz reviews should not be frozen in time. It's time to extend the power of real-time, web-based music discovery, by making our reviews, "wiki-reviews."]
I checked out both (i) Serial Dreamer - Part 1 and (ii) In Memory Of Our Dreams because I was hooked by your narrative and undertaking to translate the brain's retrospective memory of a semi-conscious ("dreamlike but nonetheless real mental state) into present aural sensibilities.
This is a fascinating and challenging experiment to determine if you can identify a common "signature" of mental activity that can be shared by all but stemming from one's individual creative insight. In my view, those trying to push out the envelope of "experimental music" should help us more [as you have undertaken to do] to give us the "real-time" impressionistic factors that go into the aural production - otherwise so-called, experimental music, all too often blends together as background ambient sound [which also may be OK but of less architectural significance and, thus, incapable of iterative development].
Upon listening to the two pieces thrice over, I myself detect the beginnings of a collective signature of "dreaming" but this may be because of (i) the haunting repetition of sounds that become urgent as often happens when our minds hover at the edge of consciousness in our dreams and (ii) your own descriptive preconditioning of my mind and ear by letting me know in advance that this was "all about dreams". All of this is OK by me because that is what experimenting with our mental and aural sensibilities is all about. However, I think this series could well benefit from complete album play [which I understand is in process] coupled with some more specific narrative throughout about what is different and what is similar about the dream series [such as your sharing the dream with a woman in Part 2 of your series - how indeed is this possible? it would be instructive to know how you came to this conclusion with your dream-sharer and how it translated to mood and concept]. In so saying and requesting, I fully appreciate that this is an exceedingly difficult artistic challenge.
Due to the length of my mental ruminations as I listen, I will also post this as a review to see how my [and your listeners] views evolve regarding your Serial Dream pieces. In the meantime, thanks for your artistic endeavor and your explanation of the direction in which you are heading with these pieces.
[NB: a note to readers of my reviews: the text of my reviews at this site may change from time to time. As I listen for futher nuances in a song or body of work, I keep modifying or adding to my thoughts, making my reviews an organic "moveable feast". Since Fuzz Artists are constantly evolving, as are our own perspectives, I think Fuzz reviews should not be frozen in time. It's time to extend the power of real-time, web-based music discovery, by making our reviews, "wiki-reviews."]
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