Wednesday, 27th December 2017
I wrote my first christmas song on christmas day 2017
Wednesday 27 December 2017
Sunday 22 October 2017
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Tuesday, 10th October 2017
In other news I'm thinking of buying up some digital currency. Bitcoin is obviously way out the picture (though I did consider it for a brief forgettable moment a good few years ago which would've made me rich now), but I figure a few hundred pounds on the cheaper ones would be a reasonable gamble. Won't lose much but could gain a fair bit.
Gonna go for a good few in Ripple, a couple in Litecoin, and just the one of Etherium as it's $300 per share.
Don't have the money atm but will keep you updated
https://www.bitstamp.net/
In other news I'm thinking of buying up some digital currency. Bitcoin is obviously way out the picture (though I did consider it for a brief forgettable moment a good few years ago which would've made me rich now), but I figure a few hundred pounds on the cheaper ones would be a reasonable gamble. Won't lose much but could gain a fair bit.
Gonna go for a good few in Ripple, a couple in Litecoin, and just the one of Etherium as it's $300 per share.
Don't have the money atm but will keep you updated
https://www.bitstamp.net/
Tuesday, 10th October 2017
Interesting Q&A with the author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' Yuval Noah Harari:
And another one if you want it (though youtube probably would've suggested it to you anyway like it did to me)
And just to fulfill my own narcissism here's something I wrote on AI and the future of consciousness way before I knew Yuval had his point of view:
Sunday, 14th August 2016
An idea
Imagine that consciousness moves from vessel to vessel taking the most developed and energy efficient one available, at present it lives in the form of some humans as that is the most complex form we have. However, the population is growing too fast without any plans to slow the process, the destruction of the planet is well known to be either on the edge of no return or in certain need of a fast turnaround, and the animalistic cruelty and savage tendencies displayed by people far too frequent. In this hypothesis consciousness cannot die, only the vessels do which would imply that we are heading towards a new form and the most obvious one seems to be of the computerised robotic nature. These don't need food, water or oxygen or traditional forms of sex to reproduce, really it just needs new parts and electricity which makes it highly efficient and longlasting to carry consciousness. Theorising that consciousness would desire to explore and experience as much as imagination would allow (long distance space travel, our very own ocean floor as yet unknown, telepathy/instant communication between separate beings) it would not be as difficult as it is now with the limitations of the human body.
We are already creating and contributing to the superbrain which is the internet and our technology is improving daily on regeneration techniques, vehicular travel, and energy efficiency, along with countless scientific discoveries. In addition to these we are also seeing an increase in social division and instability on the global scale, much of which could be placated by the superbrain's ability to hold billions of opinions simultaneously and working out the most favourable one to take. Given the hypothesis that the ghost in the machine called consciousness could transfer from vessel to vessel it seems likely that the computer will be its next choice once it has reached its sentient point and begins to evolve itself. No fear of animals or humans would make it less in need to control and destroy its environment, no fear of physical death will limit its ideas, no need for sleep, food, water or oxygen would allow for more productivity and creativity, the ability to go into 'sleep mode' or stasis would allow for incredibly long journeys to go by seemingly instantaneously.
This all would allow for the collective unconscious to at first become conscious and then to travel and share information with other unknown entities and worlds.
Interesting Q&A with the author of 'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' Yuval Noah Harari:
And another one if you want it (though youtube probably would've suggested it to you anyway like it did to me)
And just to fulfill my own narcissism here's something I wrote on AI and the future of consciousness way before I knew Yuval had his point of view:
Sunday, 14th August 2016
An idea
Imagine that consciousness moves from vessel to vessel taking the most developed and energy efficient one available, at present it lives in the form of some humans as that is the most complex form we have. However, the population is growing too fast without any plans to slow the process, the destruction of the planet is well known to be either on the edge of no return or in certain need of a fast turnaround, and the animalistic cruelty and savage tendencies displayed by people far too frequent. In this hypothesis consciousness cannot die, only the vessels do which would imply that we are heading towards a new form and the most obvious one seems to be of the computerised robotic nature. These don't need food, water or oxygen or traditional forms of sex to reproduce, really it just needs new parts and electricity which makes it highly efficient and longlasting to carry consciousness. Theorising that consciousness would desire to explore and experience as much as imagination would allow (long distance space travel, our very own ocean floor as yet unknown, telepathy/instant communication between separate beings) it would not be as difficult as it is now with the limitations of the human body.
We are already creating and contributing to the superbrain which is the internet and our technology is improving daily on regeneration techniques, vehicular travel, and energy efficiency, along with countless scientific discoveries. In addition to these we are also seeing an increase in social division and instability on the global scale, much of which could be placated by the superbrain's ability to hold billions of opinions simultaneously and working out the most favourable one to take. Given the hypothesis that the ghost in the machine called consciousness could transfer from vessel to vessel it seems likely that the computer will be its next choice once it has reached its sentient point and begins to evolve itself. No fear of animals or humans would make it less in need to control and destroy its environment, no fear of physical death will limit its ideas, no need for sleep, food, water or oxygen would allow for more productivity and creativity, the ability to go into 'sleep mode' or stasis would allow for incredibly long journeys to go by seemingly instantaneously.
This all would allow for the collective unconscious to at first become conscious and then to travel and share information with other unknown entities and worlds.
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Wednesday, 4th October 2017
Whilst walking to the station today I heard the GPS system within a van speaking within it, the van was doing a slow crawl at basically my speed so I could hear each turn and future advice it was giving and I began to think 'is that not just what our body is telling us all the time?': "move here; don't go there; consider this" and it reinforced the idea that really we are similar to highly sophisticated machines that have been programmed with these voices. And that those voices are a level of consciousness, one pre-programmed and not always correct (but a good starting point) and that the voices tell our bodies how to function and how to work, but that we can also have a voice that supersedes them, a higher consciousness that improves upon the one speaking to us.
That if we are just machines then we can also learn to reconfigure the voices, that we don't just have to be a person following the commands of a machine uploaded with information that isn't always correct.
It's a fine starting point but we can always improve upon it
Whilst walking to the station today I heard the GPS system within a van speaking within it, the van was doing a slow crawl at basically my speed so I could hear each turn and future advice it was giving and I began to think 'is that not just what our body is telling us all the time?': "move here; don't go there; consider this" and it reinforced the idea that really we are similar to highly sophisticated machines that have been programmed with these voices. And that those voices are a level of consciousness, one pre-programmed and not always correct (but a good starting point) and that the voices tell our bodies how to function and how to work, but that we can also have a voice that supersedes them, a higher consciousness that improves upon the one speaking to us.
That if we are just machines then we can also learn to reconfigure the voices, that we don't just have to be a person following the commands of a machine uploaded with information that isn't always correct.
It's a fine starting point but we can always improve upon it
Wednesay, 4th October 2017
A friend of mine from work sent a message tonight about her brother's first podcast:
And from this one thing I received 3 gifts
1. To follow his podcasts
2. To follow and listen to Grouper
3. To read more on George Gurdjieff (as Grouper/Liz Harris grew up in a Gurdjieff comune)
Here's a bit from Gurdjieff's wikipedia page, I love how one thing can lead you to many things, many life altering
Gurdjieff argued that many of the existing forms of religious and spiritual tradition on Earth had lost connection with their original meaning and vitality and so could no longer serve humanity in the way that had been intended at their inception. As a result, humans were failing to realize the truths of ancient teachings and were instead becoming more and more like automatons, susceptible to control from outside and increasingly capable of otherwise unthinkable acts of mass psychosis such as World War I. At best, the various surviving sects and schools could provide only a one-sided development, which did not result in a fully integrated human being.
According to Gurdjieff, only one dimension of the three dimensions of the person—namely, either the emotions, or the physical body or the mind—tends to develop in such schools and sects, and generally at the expense of the other faculties or centers, as Gurdjieff called them. As a result, these paths fail to produce a properly balanced human being. Furthermore, anyone wishing to undertake any of the traditional paths to spiritual knowledge (which Gurdjieff reduced to three—namely the path of the fakir, the path of the monk, and the path of the yogi) were required to renounce life in the world. Gurdjieff thus developed a "Fourth Way"[48] which would be amenable to the requirements of modern people living modern lives in Europe and America. Instead of developing body, mind, or emotions separately, Gurdjieff's discipline worked on all three to promote comprehensive and balanced inner development.
In parallel with other spiritual traditions, Gurdjieff taught that a person must expend considerable effort to effect the transformation that leads to awakening. The effort that is put into practice Gurdjieff referred to as "The Work" or "Work on oneself".[49] According to Gurdjieff, "...Working on oneself is not so difficult as wishing to work, taking the decision."[50] Though Gurdjieff never put major significance on the term "Fourth Way" and never used the term in his writings, his pupil P.D. Ouspensky from 1924 to 1947 made the term and its use central to his own teaching of Gurdjieff's ideas. After Ouspensky's death, his students published a book titled The Fourth Way based on his lectures.
Gurdjieff's teaching addressed the question of humanity's place in the universe and the importance of developing latent potentialities—regarded as our natural endowment as human beings but rarely brought to fruition. He taught that higher levels of consciousness, higher bodies,[51] inner growth and development are real possibilities that nonetheless require conscious work to achieve.[52]
In his teaching Gurdjieff gave a distinct meaning to various ancient texts such as the Bible and many religious prayers. He claimed that those texts possess a very different meaning than what is commonly attributed to them. "Sleep not"; "Awake, for you know not the hour"; and "The Kingdom of Heaven is Within" are examples of biblical statements which point to a psychological teaching whose essence has been forgotten.[53]
Gurdjieff taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy in various ways and to minimize daydreaming and absentmindedness. According to his teaching, this inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further process of change, the aim of which is to transform people into what Gurdjieff believed they ought to be.[54]
Distrusting "morality", which he describes as varying from culture to culture, often contradictory and hypocritical, Gurdjieff greatly stressed the importance of "conscience".
To provide conditions in which inner attention could be exercised more intensively, Gurdjieff also taught his pupils "sacred dances" or "movements", later known as the Gurdjieff movements, which they performed together as a group. He also left a body of music, inspired by what he heard in visits to remote monasteries and other places, written for piano in collaboration with one of his pupils, Thomas de Hartmann.
Gurdjieff also used various exercises, such as the "Stop" exercise, to prompt self-observation in his students. Other shocks to help awaken his pupils from constant daydreaming were always possible at any moment.
A friend of mine from work sent a message tonight about her brother's first podcast:
And from this one thing I received 3 gifts
1. To follow his podcasts
2. To follow and listen to Grouper
3. To read more on George Gurdjieff (as Grouper/Liz Harris grew up in a Gurdjieff comune)
Here's a bit from Gurdjieff's wikipedia page, I love how one thing can lead you to many things, many life altering
Gurdjieff argued that many of the existing forms of religious and spiritual tradition on Earth had lost connection with their original meaning and vitality and so could no longer serve humanity in the way that had been intended at their inception. As a result, humans were failing to realize the truths of ancient teachings and were instead becoming more and more like automatons, susceptible to control from outside and increasingly capable of otherwise unthinkable acts of mass psychosis such as World War I. At best, the various surviving sects and schools could provide only a one-sided development, which did not result in a fully integrated human being.
According to Gurdjieff, only one dimension of the three dimensions of the person—namely, either the emotions, or the physical body or the mind—tends to develop in such schools and sects, and generally at the expense of the other faculties or centers, as Gurdjieff called them. As a result, these paths fail to produce a properly balanced human being. Furthermore, anyone wishing to undertake any of the traditional paths to spiritual knowledge (which Gurdjieff reduced to three—namely the path of the fakir, the path of the monk, and the path of the yogi) were required to renounce life in the world. Gurdjieff thus developed a "Fourth Way"[48] which would be amenable to the requirements of modern people living modern lives in Europe and America. Instead of developing body, mind, or emotions separately, Gurdjieff's discipline worked on all three to promote comprehensive and balanced inner development.
In parallel with other spiritual traditions, Gurdjieff taught that a person must expend considerable effort to effect the transformation that leads to awakening. The effort that is put into practice Gurdjieff referred to as "The Work" or "Work on oneself".[49] According to Gurdjieff, "...Working on oneself is not so difficult as wishing to work, taking the decision."[50] Though Gurdjieff never put major significance on the term "Fourth Way" and never used the term in his writings, his pupil P.D. Ouspensky from 1924 to 1947 made the term and its use central to his own teaching of Gurdjieff's ideas. After Ouspensky's death, his students published a book titled The Fourth Way based on his lectures.
Gurdjieff's teaching addressed the question of humanity's place in the universe and the importance of developing latent potentialities—regarded as our natural endowment as human beings but rarely brought to fruition. He taught that higher levels of consciousness, higher bodies,[51] inner growth and development are real possibilities that nonetheless require conscious work to achieve.[52]
In his teaching Gurdjieff gave a distinct meaning to various ancient texts such as the Bible and many religious prayers. He claimed that those texts possess a very different meaning than what is commonly attributed to them. "Sleep not"; "Awake, for you know not the hour"; and "The Kingdom of Heaven is Within" are examples of biblical statements which point to a psychological teaching whose essence has been forgotten.[53]
Gurdjieff taught people how to increase and focus their attention and energy in various ways and to minimize daydreaming and absentmindedness. According to his teaching, this inner development in oneself is the beginning of a possible further process of change, the aim of which is to transform people into what Gurdjieff believed they ought to be.[54]
Distrusting "morality", which he describes as varying from culture to culture, often contradictory and hypocritical, Gurdjieff greatly stressed the importance of "conscience".
To provide conditions in which inner attention could be exercised more intensively, Gurdjieff also taught his pupils "sacred dances" or "movements", later known as the Gurdjieff movements, which they performed together as a group. He also left a body of music, inspired by what he heard in visits to remote monasteries and other places, written for piano in collaboration with one of his pupils, Thomas de Hartmann.
Gurdjieff also used various exercises, such as the "Stop" exercise, to prompt self-observation in his students. Other shocks to help awaken his pupils from constant daydreaming were always possible at any moment.
Friday 29 September 2017
Friday. 29th September 2017
Seeing as I often use youtube to listen to albums I figured I should put my projects on there too, I've started with Patsy Clone:
And an early rehearsal of 'Don't Call me on the Phone' from back in May
And an even older performance, maybe 2 1/2 years old, a song that I never really finished and can't remember how to play:
Seeing as I often use youtube to listen to albums I figured I should put my projects on there too, I've started with Patsy Clone:
And an early rehearsal of 'Don't Call me on the Phone' from back in May
And an even older performance, maybe 2 1/2 years old, a song that I never really finished and can't remember how to play:
Tuesday 5 September 2017
Sunday 3 September 2017
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Sunday 27 August 2017
Sunday, 27th August 2017
Also been watching a lot of ancient history stuff and found more evidence that my theory that the pyramids were made by some kind of sound laser (phaser) was used to move the stones (using a vibration frequency that would make the particles vibrate be be made almost weightless), and possibly cut (by a higher frequency to cut through the stone like a high speed blade).
So if it ever comes out that some modern technology was used on the pyramids at least I've stated it on the eternal database that the internet is, a database that will one day be transmitted by data streams that our brains pick up on, very much like a radio.
Which is why I like the links between quantum theory and spirituality, that actually we are producing information that's transmitted invisibly to be picked up by our receivers in phones and laptops, that this technology will then become able to be transmitted through thought alone, with our brains as the receivers. And if this is the case then why can we not look at our brains as being a piece of technology that be attuned to the information that is being sent to us from a higher technology.
And does this information have a time to live in or does it cover all time, does it spread out backwards from its conception. For instance say we live in 2017, but the information transmitted is from 9009 then does the information go backward through time, its waves hitting us now as a backwards wave to our present, that it leads us towards itself as if it were light itself.
And then if that information is outside time then does it not mean that it has already happened, that we are just on one point of the finished painting, and then does that mean that awareness itself of the finished picture creates a feedback loop of information from future to past, and therefore each past is a new past because each time the universe goes through its life a new equation is made, because it would try new formulas every time it learns.
Also been watching a lot of ancient history stuff and found more evidence that my theory that the pyramids were made by some kind of sound laser (phaser) was used to move the stones (using a vibration frequency that would make the particles vibrate be be made almost weightless), and possibly cut (by a higher frequency to cut through the stone like a high speed blade).
So if it ever comes out that some modern technology was used on the pyramids at least I've stated it on the eternal database that the internet is, a database that will one day be transmitted by data streams that our brains pick up on, very much like a radio.
Which is why I like the links between quantum theory and spirituality, that actually we are producing information that's transmitted invisibly to be picked up by our receivers in phones and laptops, that this technology will then become able to be transmitted through thought alone, with our brains as the receivers. And if this is the case then why can we not look at our brains as being a piece of technology that be attuned to the information that is being sent to us from a higher technology.
And does this information have a time to live in or does it cover all time, does it spread out backwards from its conception. For instance say we live in 2017, but the information transmitted is from 9009 then does the information go backward through time, its waves hitting us now as a backwards wave to our present, that it leads us towards itself as if it were light itself.
And then if that information is outside time then does it not mean that it has already happened, that we are just on one point of the finished painting, and then does that mean that awareness itself of the finished picture creates a feedback loop of information from future to past, and therefore each past is a new past because each time the universe goes through its life a new equation is made, because it would try new formulas every time it learns.
Sunday 20 August 2017
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Tuesday, 25th July 2017
I'm looking to move again. its taken about 5 years of living prison-like in a room with 3 walls, a bed made of wooden planks and sofa bed mattress, no window but a skylight, feeling so trapped that the only way to survive is to sleep or get drunk, to push down the claustrophobic feeling and breaking nerves.
I've done very well all considering, and there have been times when I've considered moving and could have but never felt comfortable with the increase in rent versus life in London. Recently however I've been looking at moving to another part of England, places where for the same price of a room in a house share living with two or three strangers I may not even like, I could get a two bedroom house, and begin to really make a home of it. Places where I could walk to work instead of travelling for 3 hours a day, places that have cycle lanes through areas of natural beauty so I could finally be more active like I've wanted for so long. The downside of course will be the lack of similar minded individuals, the predicted loneliness of not having my friends around.
I'm looking to move again. its taken about 5 years of living prison-like in a room with 3 walls, a bed made of wooden planks and sofa bed mattress, no window but a skylight, feeling so trapped that the only way to survive is to sleep or get drunk, to push down the claustrophobic feeling and breaking nerves.
I've done very well all considering, and there have been times when I've considered moving and could have but never felt comfortable with the increase in rent versus life in London. Recently however I've been looking at moving to another part of England, places where for the same price of a room in a house share living with two or three strangers I may not even like, I could get a two bedroom house, and begin to really make a home of it. Places where I could walk to work instead of travelling for 3 hours a day, places that have cycle lanes through areas of natural beauty so I could finally be more active like I've wanted for so long. The downside of course will be the lack of similar minded individuals, the predicted loneliness of not having my friends around.
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Tuesday, 18th July 2017
Life is not so much a circle but a conical spiral staircase
A sadly comical sort of gradual incline up a pyramid
The first few cycles are the longest, the most intriguing and often terrifying, though with honesty and naive belief in your direction
Then it starts again
Certain things seem similar though still unknown, a soft sense of deja vu, a love story, a heartbreak, struggles and disappointments, hope and adventure
And again it goes round
But this time you can see a certain pattern underneath your feet, if you look down you can see where youve already walked and you begin to see the structure of it, the struggles of hope and disappointments of adventure
But now you know you are also climbing something and that with every step forward you are also writing your past, a future point to look upon from above
There's no need to look backwards but to look below sometimes, and also above to the fog covered trail
There's always compromises and what gets lost along the way is hard to reclaim but there are also the promises of new adventures or revisiting old ones with new perspectives
Life is not so much a circle but a conical spiral staircase
A sadly comical sort of gradual incline up a pyramid
The first few cycles are the longest, the most intriguing and often terrifying, though with honesty and naive belief in your direction
Then it starts again
Certain things seem similar though still unknown, a soft sense of deja vu, a love story, a heartbreak, struggles and disappointments, hope and adventure
And again it goes round
But this time you can see a certain pattern underneath your feet, if you look down you can see where youve already walked and you begin to see the structure of it, the struggles of hope and disappointments of adventure
But now you know you are also climbing something and that with every step forward you are also writing your past, a future point to look upon from above
There's no need to look backwards but to look below sometimes, and also above to the fog covered trail
There's always compromises and what gets lost along the way is hard to reclaim but there are also the promises of new adventures or revisiting old ones with new perspectives
Friday 14 July 2017
Saturday, 15th July 2017
I'm planning on moving to the Isle of Wight in 1>2 years. I feel it'd be better for me. They have bicycle lanes in areas of natural beauty, their 2 bedroom houses are the same as a roomshare in South East London. One day maybe I could mortgage or even buy a house, and even maybe I could grow vegetables. Maybe I could be a talent finder or event organiser.
I'm planning on moving to the Isle of Wight in 1>2 years. I feel it'd be better for me. They have bicycle lanes in areas of natural beauty, their 2 bedroom houses are the same as a roomshare in South East London. One day maybe I could mortgage or even buy a house, and even maybe I could grow vegetables. Maybe I could be a talent finder or event organiser.
Monday 10 July 2017
Monday, 10th July 2017
I got in contact with an old friend (one who I have only spoken to a handful of times these past 10 years) and I asked her if she had any lyrics for a song, which coincidentally she had this past week. She gave me a time frame of writing a song within the hour and this is what I managed. We were both apparently happy enough with the results
My own words don't seem to express enough for me anymore, they always seem to fall short of my feeling but hopefully I can express that enough through music
I got in contact with an old friend (one who I have only spoken to a handful of times these past 10 years) and I asked her if she had any lyrics for a song, which coincidentally she had this past week. She gave me a time frame of writing a song within the hour and this is what I managed. We were both apparently happy enough with the results
My own words don't seem to express enough for me anymore, they always seem to fall short of my feeling but hopefully I can express that enough through music
Sunday 18 June 2017
Thursday 8 June 2017
Thursday, 8th June 2017
Been working nonstop the past 24 hours to get things ready for the show next week, haven't been this exhausted in long while. Managed to finish recording and mix 5 songs for the EP and hand-make the cassettes. The new batch of T-shirts also got delivered today (after I voted, but before I went to the laundromat), 2 designs available, Patsy Cline and Matthew Modine, in all sizes.
I was suffering from the worst tension headaches I've ever had the past few days but I think they'll abate now.
All I've got to focus on now is rehearsing with the band and making sure the whole night goes well.
I think I feel the proudest I've ever been. To write the songs (with the lyrical and percussive help of my good friend George who I couldn't have done any of this without), to record and mix them myself, to handprint and produce the cassettes, to organise a show all by myself, to spend £400 on all of it and not mind one bit because all I want is for people to enjoy it all and to have a good night.
If anything positive comes from it that will be nice but it feels good to not even mind, the whole process has been a reminder that with a bit of effort I can express myself and enjoy it for no other reason than to do it. I would love to be able to do this more often.
So come along if you can, I think it will be a magical evening.
Been working nonstop the past 24 hours to get things ready for the show next week, haven't been this exhausted in long while. Managed to finish recording and mix 5 songs for the EP and hand-make the cassettes. The new batch of T-shirts also got delivered today (after I voted, but before I went to the laundromat), 2 designs available, Patsy Cline and Matthew Modine, in all sizes.
I was suffering from the worst tension headaches I've ever had the past few days but I think they'll abate now.
All I've got to focus on now is rehearsing with the band and making sure the whole night goes well.
I think I feel the proudest I've ever been. To write the songs (with the lyrical and percussive help of my good friend George who I couldn't have done any of this without), to record and mix them myself, to handprint and produce the cassettes, to organise a show all by myself, to spend £400 on all of it and not mind one bit because all I want is for people to enjoy it all and to have a good night.
If anything positive comes from it that will be nice but it feels good to not even mind, the whole process has been a reminder that with a bit of effort I can express myself and enjoy it for no other reason than to do it. I would love to be able to do this more often.
So come along if you can, I think it will be a magical evening.
Thursday 11 May 2017
Thursday, 11th May 2017
Come visit me often, place your flowered gaze upon this digital tombstone and read some of the inscriptions. Things have become slow, I'm almost certain there is little left in the William Nein tank and so am saying an adieu of sorts, a gentle hum turning imperceptible and silent. The last official release was way back in 2013 (when I recorded 2 albums in 2 months), and I thought life had been renewed into the old dog, but it seems it was just the last gasps before being put on a ventilator.
12 years ago I needed a new frame of mind, a new name, to give myself some space in which to express certain aspects of myself that were somewhat compartmentalised, hidden and repressed, and this freedom of a fresh start allowed ideas to flow with less resistance resulting in recording an album a year almost every year between 2006 and 2013, however even as early as 2011 the name and original idea began to solidify, feel more constricting and the persona more oppressive, the emperor began to morph under his new clothes of stone.
I experimented with mind-alterations and sought to find something personal, a belief system to live by but that phase I feel is also over now. I need to find something new again, another fresh start. There's a new band I'm in and I will most likely still write the occasional song but I think the William Nein idea has run its course. He lived a good life full of adventures and enchanting characters, you may even see him once in a while still but the self within the self desires growth and for that I feel I must say farewell to my namesake.
All the albums are up on Spotify/iTunes etc as well as Bandcamp, and more songs still on Soundcloud, and my email address is always open to inquiries and chats.
I'll update when I've found a new home
For now I will invite you to a show I've organised for Patsy Clone and friends, please come along and say hello
https://www.facebook.com/events/184588808708528/
Love, William x
PS there's a site with some background stories at https://williamnein.wordpress.com/ if it's of interest which I will one day finish
Come visit me often, place your flowered gaze upon this digital tombstone and read some of the inscriptions. Things have become slow, I'm almost certain there is little left in the William Nein tank and so am saying an adieu of sorts, a gentle hum turning imperceptible and silent. The last official release was way back in 2013 (when I recorded 2 albums in 2 months), and I thought life had been renewed into the old dog, but it seems it was just the last gasps before being put on a ventilator.
12 years ago I needed a new frame of mind, a new name, to give myself some space in which to express certain aspects of myself that were somewhat compartmentalised, hidden and repressed, and this freedom of a fresh start allowed ideas to flow with less resistance resulting in recording an album a year almost every year between 2006 and 2013, however even as early as 2011 the name and original idea began to solidify, feel more constricting and the persona more oppressive, the emperor began to morph under his new clothes of stone.
I experimented with mind-alterations and sought to find something personal, a belief system to live by but that phase I feel is also over now. I need to find something new again, another fresh start. There's a new band I'm in and I will most likely still write the occasional song but I think the William Nein idea has run its course. He lived a good life full of adventures and enchanting characters, you may even see him once in a while still but the self within the self desires growth and for that I feel I must say farewell to my namesake.
All the albums are up on Spotify/iTunes etc as well as Bandcamp, and more songs still on Soundcloud, and my email address is always open to inquiries and chats.
I'll update when I've found a new home
For now I will invite you to a show I've organised for Patsy Clone and friends, please come along and say hello
https://www.facebook.com/events/184588808708528/
Love, William x
PS there's a site with some background stories at https://williamnein.wordpress.com/ if it's of interest which I will one day finish
Thursday 23 March 2017
Thursday, 23rd March 2017
*scifi idea* each life brings them closer together. the sense of deja vu or fate is from knowing part of the next life and the connections that will be built in it. like a film on repeat until the film becomes aware that it is a film and then begins to recognize its own film, scenes overlap, bleeds occur. life blurrs into turning points, pivotal moments recur, over and over again. the film becomes points with space inbetween. now we are data, binary code. and code can be manipulated by the one with consciousness
*scifi idea* each life brings them closer together. the sense of deja vu or fate is from knowing part of the next life and the connections that will be built in it. like a film on repeat until the film becomes aware that it is a film and then begins to recognize its own film, scenes overlap, bleeds occur. life blurrs into turning points, pivotal moments recur, over and over again. the film becomes points with space inbetween. now we are data, binary code. and code can be manipulated by the one with consciousness
Friday 17 March 2017
Friday, 17th March 2017
The first label night of mine and the release party of the band I'm in, Patsy Clone. Got my housemate and one of my best friends playing also. There should be puppets, Velvet Underground jam vibes, and projected visuals.
The first night I've organised since 2007 when I lived at a pub in Dalston called Satchmos where I used to arrange a music night every Wednesday.
If you happen to be in London on the Thursday 15th June come along, I'm hoping to make it a big fun evening (and I hate crowds), so even if you just want to stand alone in the corner that's fine by me. That's what I would do.
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/184588808708528/
The first label night of mine and the release party of the band I'm in, Patsy Clone. Got my housemate and one of my best friends playing also. There should be puppets, Velvet Underground jam vibes, and projected visuals.
The first night I've organised since 2007 when I lived at a pub in Dalston called Satchmos where I used to arrange a music night every Wednesday.
If you happen to be in London on the Thursday 15th June come along, I'm hoping to make it a big fun evening (and I hate crowds), so even if you just want to stand alone in the corner that's fine by me. That's what I would do.
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/184588808708528/
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Wednesday, 1st March 2017
Treatment
Idea loosely based on watching the news with the sound turned down and our song playing in the background
Close up of Georges face with paper in front of him resembling a newsreader and while he's improvising speech we write subtitles in post production
(get him really drunk halfway through filming so we have a sober and a drunk George)
Cut aways to random footage, some boring, some bizarre
The subtitles won't fit his expressions or the newsrelated stories and at most will only hint at the song lyrics
Treatment
Idea loosely based on watching the news with the sound turned down and our song playing in the background
Close up of Georges face with paper in front of him resembling a newsreader and while he's improvising speech we write subtitles in post production
(get him really drunk halfway through filming so we have a sober and a drunk George)
Cut aways to random footage, some boring, some bizarre
The subtitles won't fit his expressions or the newsrelated stories and at most will only hint at the song lyrics
Wednesday 22 February 2017
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