allatonceness || project proposal

Last term, I took New Media in Art 240, and I genuinely found something special in the words of McLuhan. Through the scope of 'Allatonceness', the idea that everything in the universe is happening now and will forever happen, I found myself grasping for an answer. Though I don't think I've found it, I think I've hit something special. 

    

With this project, I WANT IS TO EXPLORE AND ESTABLISH MY CONNECTION TO THE SIMULATION. By navigating through the effects of new media, I want to interact with the past, present, and future hoping to cement myself in the history of new media. 

In this new realm, there is no "right" way to do it because everything has been done already. My ultimate goal is to connect people to art in a way that helps them interact with the real environment around them. Even if the project only gets 3 listens, I've done my job. 

As artists of this new era, we must learn to embrace that we simply ARE. our existence is enough a purpose to expand in this growing totality. By dropping a collection of songs, I am etching myself into the expansive cosmos, solely by the action of RELEASE. 

In 200 years, if a someone finds the music, I WON. 

What I mean is, since nothing is new, the music plays a larger role in contextualizing the space around the people that listen to it. Instead of acting as a way to get popular, this music is literally my soul. I don't want streams. I don't want fame. I WANT TO DROP MUSIC. it makes me feel good, and the process enthralls me.

To me, the creation of music through a Digital Audio Workstation is sacred. I can connect to myself all the while expressing the emotions that I want. Not only that, since my creative process involves heavy sampling, the reusing of existing songs to create, I can serve as a link between the past and the future. 

Most of the songs in this project use samples from the past. I really wanted these songs to become something new. Instead of looping certain sections of the sample, I have learned to chop them up using MIDI, picking out sections from each song, and then playing them in a specific way to create what I desire. 

For this project, I wish to create a collection of beats that are cohesive and comprehensible. I also want to develop a few items and/or conceptual maps of what I'm trying to get across. I want to do this by either creating some physical versions of the project, along with visualizers that support the message.