FOLIO TWELVE - THE MIDNIGHT SUN

Featuring Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul - Week 12

This week’s folio features elements from last year (mostly from last year’s song) - which I’ve packaged together based on visual impact as opposed to written coherence.

Below is an image which appeared in last year’s folio which I then marked it up with the following text. The text was not meant to ‘say something’ or be a poem - it was an experiment while musing out loud on the strangeness of the computer-as-medium.

I’m on the verge of a ‘recording breakthrough’ - I can feel. To be sure, it hasn’t happened yet. The video below is the first one that I made ‘exclusively for Substack.’ This was recorded through the soundboard of the local pub where I was playing. I initially thought this would be a great efficient way to record music - but no. When you record through the board, the sounds of speakers or monitors are not included, nor is the ambient sound of the space. The energy might be there, but this can become a comical disaster when context is considered.

Oh! One thing I do like about the video is it includes animation I made of that ‘speculative geometry’ exercise I presented awhile back. The floor boards you can see below are from a house renovation I did in Upstate New York from around 2021. It was that same house that provided the ‘antique glass light’ that I’ve used to enhance many of my paintings.