reconsiderate

Artist/Band Profile:
We humans tend to get attached to things. We enjoy feeling certain ways and doing certain things, and we do everything within our power to feel those ways and do those things more often. This is perfectly natural, but it does carry with it some dire implications. Specifically, the crafty strategies that we devise in order to approach this and avoid that wind up taking us in circles. Our lives start to become focused on these formulas rather than the desired states of being that had inspired them. Ultimately, we find ourselves trapped in labyrinths of obsolete pleasantries, frustrated with, though largely unwilling to admit, the fact that they no longer work. From here, we spiral down into a profound inflexibility characterized by obsessive attention to impertinent minutia, growing increasingly isolated and at odds with others in the world around us. This in turn leads to all forms of violent oppression and insanity.

Reconsiderate addresses this issue by confronting the furthest extrapolations of these "obsolete pleasantries". What he uncovers are unanticipated (or acknowledged) "bumps in the road", repressed nightmares that are just itching to find their way to the surface. In these moments of confrontation, Reconsiderate's intentions are that the dysfunctional strategies be recognized as short-sighted and finite miscalculations, deserving only to be purged as we "go back to the drawing board". As such, Reconsiderate is best understood as a force that supports our spiritual and psychological evolution, even at the expense of our comfort.

The word itself, "reconsiderate", can be understood as an adjective that means "able and willing to adapt or change". It is rightly applied to anyone who understands that every aspect of his being-- from his most lofty ideals down to his most basic assumptions about life-- is subject to infinite scrutiny and is eventually destined to be torn down, razed to clear space for What Will Follow.

Music Style: Weird music for weird weirdos who are weird

I never know how to describe my music to other people. You could consider it electronica, since I write and mix everything using synthesizers on my computer. But, really, that's only a superficial description at best. After all, my style doesn't depend upon my medium. Were I to have learned the clarinet, piano, guitar, theremin or some other instrument, the songs would still be written in the same way they are today, which is largely loop-based.

When I sit down to write some music, I usually start by picking a time signature and melodic key at random. As soon as I've got these, I'll do my best to make some interesting loops using the synth voices and percussive textures that I find in my composition software. The beats often take on a convoluted or "jagged" quality, while, with the melodies, I'm just going for something that's easy to listen to.

Once I've got a solid loop or two, I'll start playing around with ways to repeat, arrange and modify them as the song progresses forward through time. While this is going on, I'll decide whether to throw in some lyrics or leave the song as an instrumental. Whichever I decide, I'll run with it until I feel it's done or I run out of ideas. It's a great exercise in imagination, because I'm always doing what I can to head in directions where I've never taken previous songs.

In the end, my music serves primarily as a means of framing and emphasizing my lyrics-- I consider myself a wordsmith first and a recording artist second. Having been influenced mostly by hard rock, industrial and rap, my lyrics tend to be somewhat confrontational and ironic, and are almost always delivered in a half-sung, half-spoken style. Others have described it as "electro punk", "spoken word" and even "underground hip-hop". In my eyes, I'm just making music the way it's supposed to be made. You can call it whatever you want.

Influences: Tool,Beck,Bjork,They Might Be Giants,KMFDM,Metallica,KRSONE

Studio / Music Equipment: Propellerhead Reason 3.0