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Unmeaningful Consumption Experiences is out now on bandcamp! Unmeaningful Consumption Experiences by Jesse Spillane Copy-paste from the description on bandcamp: This has two themes. The first is the feeling of being in a world that has been turned upside down, while grasping for a sense of normalcy --somewhat unsuccessfully. The second is an exercise in figuring out how to stand out with…
I always come back to a series of music videos on youtube by Kutiman titled “Thru-you”. They are made by remixing videos of others on the site. This is one of my favorites from it called “I’m New”: The entire playlist from this series is here . There’s a sequel called “Thur you Too” here . It’s all brilliant. Check it out. The video is old. It was uploaded in 2009. Youtube was a much different…
I had recently pulled my music off of the streaming sites. I canceled my Distrokid subscription. In 2008, when I started releasing albums, there was a certain excitement around the web and what it would bring for musicians. You could distribute your own music. You didn’t have to follow the rules. The old gatekeepers were still there, but you didn’t have to play their game. You could make a space…
I've had some form of a website for many years, and recently, it has mostly been a glorified link to external sites where I put music I had created; and it still kind of is until I populate it with anything else. I just moved to bear blog to host the site, because it feels like a re-emergence of a kind of human-shaped internet I want to take part in. Now I'm faced with writing the dreaded…