#ourmusic — Public Fediverse posts

I had this odd realization during my post-writers group smoke break today.

I think I – as well as my system as a whole – approach making art the same way that jazz musicians play music. I was thinking about this because the piece I ended up writing today in group pulled heavily from “My Island” and yet putting an entirely different spin on it, and it got me thinking about all of the different times that I’ve done that while making music especially.

And honestly, if I had to sum up my approach to just about everything in life, I would say that I approach most of my crafts like a jazz musician even though I don’t technically play jazz. I don’t believe in just one final product or making a recording or a piece the be all, end all. A single song can inspire me for over ten years and I’ll keep coming back to it lyrically, musically, poetically, even, in a sort of self-referential game of call and response, making something new with each iteration and reexamination.

In the process, I’m building a recursive universe the longer I make content and art.

I fucking love jazz.

-Allēna

I had this odd realization during my post-writers group smoke break today.

I think I – as well as my system as a whole – approach making art the same way that jazz musicians play music. I was thinking about this because the piece I ended up writing today in group pulled heavily from “My Island” and yet putting an entirely different spin on it, and it got me thinking about all of the different times that I’ve done that while making music especially.

And honestly, if I had to sum up my approach to just about everything in life, I would say that I approach most of my crafts like a jazz musician even though I don’t technically play jazz. I don’t believe in just one final product or making a recording or a piece the be all, end all. A single song can inspire me for over ten years and I’ll keep coming back to it lyrically, musically, poetically, even, in a sort of self-referential game of call and response, making something new with each iteration and reexamination.

In the process, I’m building a recursive universe the longer I make content and art.

I fucking love jazz.

-Allēna

Well, Ashley decided to be a motherfucker.

He went through SEVERAL old accounts and dug up THE ABSOLUTE MOTHERLODE of old music (we’re talking like 5+ years old) and elected to post some of his finds on social media like a gremlin.

So, fuck it. I’m gonna post something he dug up.

This is a rework I did when I was 19 of a song from my EP Nothing Will Keep Us Together.

This is the ✨electrified✨ version of “Pull Us Under”. Enjoy.

And to my family members who called it boring, they can suck it. One day I’ll finish electrifying this extended play and it’ll be over for you motherfuckers.

-Allēna

My new headmate has a villain song.

I wanted to post it here now that things with Zelda have gone…south, as it were.

It is titled “Australis.” Eight wrote it a year ago. Enjoy, along with a bonus meme.

-Allēna

#australis #disstrack #folkpunk #meme #ourmusic #zelda #zeldaSystem

I was clicking around the blog after months in a dormancy coma and I’ve gotta say…

I love what my headmates have done with the place.

Pretty neat.

Have Allēna’s and Eight’s masterpiece album Mago as a treat before you go. If you’re finding the system via the MadMastodon tag or related ones, I think you’ll like what it has to say. It’s all about deconstructing a high control faith, surviving psychiatry and long term abuse, and finding ourselves. Enjoy.

-Castor (he/it), the system’s original host.

#DIDSystem #DIDThings #dissociativeIdentityDisorder #exmormon #MadMastodon #mentalHealth #OurMusic #plural #plurality

I was clicking around the blog after months in a dormancy coma and I’ve gotta say…

I love what my headmates have done with the place.

Pretty neat.

Have Allēna’s and Eight’s masterpiece album Mago as a treat before you go. If you’re finding the system via the MadMastodon tag or related ones, I think you’ll like what it has to say. It’s all about deconstructing a high control faith, surviving psychiatry and long term abuse, and finding ourselves. Enjoy.

-Castor (he/it), the system’s original host.

#DIDSystem #DIDThings #dissociativeIdentityDisorder #exmormon #MadMastodon #mentalHealth #OurMusic #plural #plurality

I was clicking around the blog after months in a dormancy coma and I’ve gotta say…

I love what my headmates have done with the place.

Pretty neat.

Have Allēna’s and Eight’s masterpiece album Mago as a treat before you go. If you’re finding the system via the MadMastodon tag or related ones, I think you’ll like what it has to say. It’s all about deconstructing a high control faith, surviving psychiatry and long term abuse, and finding ourselves. Enjoy.

-Castor (he/it), the system’s original host.

#DIDSystem #DIDThings #dissociativeIdentityDisorder #exmormon #MadMastodon #mentalHealth #OurMusic #plural #plurality

I was clicking around the blog after months in a dormancy coma and I’ve gotta say…

I love what my headmates have done with the place.

Pretty neat.

Have Allēna’s and Eight’s masterpiece album Mago as a treat before you go. If you’re finding the system via the MadMastodon tag or related ones, I think you’ll like what it has to say. It’s all about deconstructing a high control faith, surviving psychiatry and long term abuse, and finding ourselves. Enjoy.

-Castor (he/it), the system’s original host.

#DIDSystem #DIDThings #dissociativeIdentityDisorder #exmormon #MadMastodon #mentalHealth #OurMusic #plural #plurality