𝚝𝚏𝚙𝚇𝙴 pt. 2
Mar. 22nd, 2024 07:17 pmi sat in my office area of the basement of my old house in 2022 envisioning having my own place again. i pictured a room that i could use for creative purposes and after seeing a picture of Elohim doing a DJ set and seeing her equipment sprawled out on a flat table i started to picture how cool it would be to do something similar with a church lectern.
i was thrifting in march 2023 and found a few key items i'd specifically wanted and also found my lectern. i prefer podium despite it being the wrong word because then i can say stu-podium and laugh about it. a year later and i converted the podium into a stand for my laptop and silly DJ and beat making equipment. i also have a computer table i found on the curb that holds my synths and audio interfaces as well as my practice amps. i took away time from creating noise to work on my space and have finally started getting back in the headspace to create and move forward with the tfpXE project.
when i first made and uploaded the audio collages that i dubbed s(ample) platter (reader's choice of sample platter or ample splatter) all i knew was that they all sounded like shit and made me laugh. i pieced the shit together using cut and paste on WavePad and most of it sounds super janky and i didn't care. i merged free for commercial use images from unsplash to make all the cover art for tfpXE compilations thus far. my next project will be me venturing away from that formula and creating my own original audio pieces. the cover art is still made up of pictures i stole off the internet but fuck it. i don't have original pictures of the places i used nor do i know who shot the originals.
i didn't expect making stupid ass collages out of royalty free samples and beats along with pop culture and stolen music samples would be so cathartic. i didn't expect to gain a very tiny fanbase and have them gas my head up by them being able to relate to the stupid shit i pieced together and uploaded. i learned about John Oswald doing something similar as far back as the 60s and calling it plunderphonics. it's been one of the most rewarding art projects i've ever started and doing my live performance in August 2022 was everything i expected.
it did not go perfect. it was not well attended. i had an amazing time acting like a fucking idiot and feeling like i went full-on Andy Kaufman in front of less than 20 people in McHenry, IL. i loved it. i danced until i was so spent physically and puked for a day straight and went to the ER for hyperemesis and dehydration. i was cleansed.
tfpXE has helped me purge, manifest, discover myself and process many other emotions that still lingered even after years of therapy and medication. from the first minute i uploaded an mp3 up to this very moment and beyond i will always be surprised when anyone listens, let alone enjoys if they do. i do it for me and that's the best feeling.
i was thrifting in march 2023 and found a few key items i'd specifically wanted and also found my lectern. i prefer podium despite it being the wrong word because then i can say stu-podium and laugh about it. a year later and i converted the podium into a stand for my laptop and silly DJ and beat making equipment. i also have a computer table i found on the curb that holds my synths and audio interfaces as well as my practice amps. i took away time from creating noise to work on my space and have finally started getting back in the headspace to create and move forward with the tfpXE project.
when i first made and uploaded the audio collages that i dubbed s(ample) platter (reader's choice of sample platter or ample splatter) all i knew was that they all sounded like shit and made me laugh. i pieced the shit together using cut and paste on WavePad and most of it sounds super janky and i didn't care. i merged free for commercial use images from unsplash to make all the cover art for tfpXE compilations thus far. my next project will be me venturing away from that formula and creating my own original audio pieces. the cover art is still made up of pictures i stole off the internet but fuck it. i don't have original pictures of the places i used nor do i know who shot the originals.
i didn't expect making stupid ass collages out of royalty free samples and beats along with pop culture and stolen music samples would be so cathartic. i didn't expect to gain a very tiny fanbase and have them gas my head up by them being able to relate to the stupid shit i pieced together and uploaded. i learned about John Oswald doing something similar as far back as the 60s and calling it plunderphonics. it's been one of the most rewarding art projects i've ever started and doing my live performance in August 2022 was everything i expected.
it did not go perfect. it was not well attended. i had an amazing time acting like a fucking idiot and feeling like i went full-on Andy Kaufman in front of less than 20 people in McHenry, IL. i loved it. i danced until i was so spent physically and puked for a day straight and went to the ER for hyperemesis and dehydration. i was cleansed.
tfpXE has helped me purge, manifest, discover myself and process many other emotions that still lingered even after years of therapy and medication. from the first minute i uploaded an mp3 up to this very moment and beyond i will always be surprised when anyone listens, let alone enjoys if they do. i do it for me and that's the best feeling.
