Pareidolia
Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. -wikipedia
yes i dislike using it as a reference place, no i'm not ashamed to stop doing it either as my time to writing these is typically limited. we have been hard at work getting underway with the EP and it's been EXTREMELY difficult as this type of project is sort of new to all of us involved; new tech and compositions. we're so excited to be creating unbound we've been working on a lot of projects at once, the visuals (cymatic frequency resonator) are getting to be very trippy. working with macro camera tech, trying to get my microscope to work to record the images as well is painstaking, but the end result will look boss.
so the reference in the title? when a brain sees something that isn't there? yeah, we would call that a reference to our recent federal election here in Canada, as the brain really did see something that wasn't there. all we can hope at this point is our country sees some real progress in art and scientific funding renewed. grants restored and research put back on the forefront. knowledge is nothing without imagination, so we hope our new government will be creative and inspirational, like the people the artists that shape this country's landscape.
i had the privilege of attending The Tea Party's concert for Canada's Walk of Fame inductions, and they played their album 'Edges of Twilight' in it's entirety. for those of you who have never had the pleasure of listening to Canadian Rock it goes like this "everyone else sounds different and better than Nickleback". that's rule number one. number two? most canadian bands explore their east coast cultural roots. celtic style drones and the sound of the ocean. or west coast mountain acoustics on mushrooms (the tea party's song shadow of the mountains). nonetheless, it's another example of a band that gets a little less recognition than they deserve for being amazing musicians and artists who have their own unique vibe. i.e. jeff martin playing the hurdy gurdy and blowing my mind. who plays a hurdy gurdy at a rock show and makes it rock? the tea party, that's who.
so point 2 about the title; i ran a whole whack of band images through fractal generators and suppose "AI's" that were like Google's Deep dream and we got some interesting band photos out of the lot that i'll be posting. also shortcoming will be another cymatics video, as well as THE 'cymatics' video and who knows, maybe by the next letter i'll try to reinvent gravity.
-J
