In this episode I play a lot of the music I did for Zar Matt A Thustra’s Deep Space Adventures, as a port of the National Solo Album Month challenge. I’m giving Zar Matt A Thustra’s Deep Space Adventures away for free, and making podsafe. You can find links to this music at mattsearles.com/music  In part, this episode is a moment in time: A moment in confronting the NaSoAlMo challenge and thinking about the future of my music in light of the challenge. Or this challenge pushed into exploring creative production processes that open up new possibilities for my work.. We hear some of the fruits of that experimentation in the episode. The first track we listen to is called Vasperian Blogocombat, an idea from Vaspers the Grate. Vaspers is someone I met via twitter.. and has been very encouraging of me and my work… This track was inspired by him as well as my experiences with social media. Here’s a video clip of Vaspers the Grate talking about being Vaspers the Grate. I think of him as a kind of insane genius. I think his stuff is brilliant.. So Dig it:  

 And while you are at it, check out the Vaspers the Grate Blog. He is pretty awesome after all. The next track in this episode includes a conversation with Mark and his now ex girl friend.. which seemed to work great with the music I was making.. I call this track Herstory as Mark tells a somewhat feminist type version of history.. that is a lot of fun.. Feminist history with a kind of Dio esk metal operatic aesthetic.. How can you beat that? From here the episodes veers off into the subject of my parents declining health. My mom would be emitted to the hospital on the night before Thanksgiving (just after this recording took place) Apparently a conflict in her mediations, internal bleeding, and what have you.. brought her pretty close to death. It would be a little over a week before she would come home.. she’s home now as of this writing, but she’s still terribly fragile.. barely able to lean up in bed on her own strength. It was a very difficult Thanksgiving, the next podcast episode ought to cover this a little more. The final track is.. not really titled yet.. I have a working tittle of something like ‘Electronic Ambient Experiment Adventure.’

 

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