New album called Sprinkles!
https://thescottdunningextravaganza.bandcamp.com/album/sprinkles
I created this album in the last couple weeks. It’s called Sprinkles, in reference to the cover art I made. I’m very happy with it all! I am proud to have made what felt good in the moment, and for staying creatively open. My goal was to create whatever I wanted to, and to take risks in the process. Whenever I was on the fence about something, I always chose the more extreme option. I always took the path where I didn’t know what the end result would look like. It’s pretty funny though, because this album is awfully tame and not that extreme at all.
Now I’m thinking forward to my next project—I’m doing recording experiments and making visual art to feel out what I’m interested in. It’s also nice to reflect for a moment on the most exciting parts of Sprinkles which I can take forward with me and explore more of. I have also been learning that art seems to be most intriguing to me when my ego is completely disconnected from the art. By that, I mean to be unattached to the outcome and not be personally bothered if it isn’t good to me. Quite a strange paradox! I become most interested in the work I do that I created in a state of disinterest. Sorry if that’s confusing. Let me explain: I create the art from a place of happiness! I am not creating for survival, but for the joy of doing something. And that allows my exploration process to be totally free—anything that is made will be fine with me, because I just want to make anything. I enjoy the outcome of the art when I make it from a place of being outside of my own head. I overthink all day long and I’m constantly bombarded with expectations to do things that others think I should do. So when I make art, I don’t want to think about myself or others. It’s my time to be free of everything, and I don’t think a thing in the process.
Here’s a thought I’ve been thinking recently: the part of your brain and self that works to do whatever it is you do is outside the confines of spoken language. Basketball players get interviewed and they say, “yeah, I go fast and score.” And there’s nothing else you can say about it, yet there’s an entire universe of thought and feeling outside of the describable that enables a person to do what they do. Interviews and descriptions will simply never be enough, because the inner processes are infinite and undefinable. When moving, you don’t think in words. Maybe you CAN talk to your dog, but in the language of action and not words. Communication in action. Sprinkles album is instrumental yet seems to communicate something. I’m very interested in communication outside of words. It’s slightly unfortunate though, because a human voice is so capturing in music. Maybe it’s about being in tune with what the music says to you, and add lyrics that speak those things. Rawr I’m bored. til next time
