There’s been a bit of an incident, and now I veer off in my own independent direction. But as I always knew, I’d be moving forward with the Microscope project because that’s what I saw as my direction, and now I’m building up plans around executing the Microscope project my own way, doing my own thing.
Soul Science and Dojo Inspectors simply just goes in the pile with everything else that was meant to happen and kind of did but didn’t and therefore I’ll have to use my Romantech site to display, curate and present everything that I’ve done before. Am I going to present the gory innards of the implosion that happened, the surrounding incidents? Who knows. If it’s appropriate to how the art is to be presented.
It’s like Data:bass or Further or anything else, it goes on the pile, maybe it’ll be resurrected, maybe not, but there’s a place in the timeline, in the narrative to say in this time I was actually active, I’m not pretending it never happened, there’s still a chapter to be read in the story that takes us to where we are now.
And where we are now in terms of music is the Microscope project which is the musical partner to the Haunted Garden. That’s me for the next few months. Working on Microscope and Haunted Garden, trying to get the Romantech website up to a new level where there’s actual stuff to be explored and a narrative structure emerging, and then plugging into my other video work and my newsletter stuff which will probably be coming from another direction, the kurb promotions and business direction, hopefully to meet somewhere before the end of the year.
The “Haunted Microscope” will consist of:
- The Romantech “Microscope” EP
- The “Haunted Garden” 10 minute video and minimix
- The “Haunted Microscope” Full Length Mix
Then a web development and web marketing campaign around that
As I say heading up to the new year I hope to join that with whatever headway I’ve made with my youtube and newsletter, and also the retroactive work on my website, and then forward from there in a unified creative direction.
The songs I am keen to consider featuring on the EP and minimix are:
PROBABLES:
Polyps
Pretty Ghosts
Hang ‘em High
Trinity
Journeys
POSSIBLES:
Paper Tigers
In The Morning
Peace At Last
Rain
Mountains
Lost Dreams
So yeah, some of these songs won’t make the final line up. The issues are that Journeys and Trinity while very solid, are both very similar. Paper Tigers, Lost Dreams and Peace at Last have strong elements but are still a little bit ragged and unfocused. So I think now I’ve spent this time mapping out, it’s really just time to get back into the tunes and doing it, working up the Romantech website and archive and looking at how I can get started with my camera and my newsletter so I’ve at least kicked things off there by the time the Microscope project is ready to launch, and I can think more about how to bring those together, and start pushing the promotion once I’m happy with whats there, what I’ve created that I’ve made available to promote.
