Archive for August, 2010
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Sideways (A Prayer for the Saved) – Ongoing evolution/Laura Visvydas & Joel Smith
This song began one evening while Joel and I were listening to different sounds and beats on his production equipment to fit a song I had written several years ago. After trial and error we put together the rhythm (drums/bass) and realized it was becoming it’s own piece. The bass line is taken from chords of the old piece, but the entire sound and character of this one no longer sounds even remotely like what I had written prior.
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Assemblage and Artifacts/Edward Kienholz
The work of Edward Kienholz is brash. Assembled from the detritus of society and given implications of unease with the establishment. His materials were mostly scavenged from sidewalks and thrift stores and assembled in a hyper-realistic fashion that is eerily haunting. His powerful imagery is so environmental and present that it ...