So, school has started. Yet, it seems as though nothing has changed. From Summer that is. This is because my first lecture isn’t until November 4:th. Sure, I’ll be writhing a Bachelors Thesis until then (and then, and after then). But, still.
Apart from the thesis I’ll be taking two classes this semester. The first one is an introduction in artificial intelligence; I chose this one because it just seems awesome! The second one is one on the late Wittgenstein (and then late as in ‘his later philosophy’, which in many ways contradicts his early stuff, and not late as in dead… although he is… ok, it’s a course on the late, late Wittgenstein… and not late, late as in the last thing the late Wittgenstein did…). I’m taking this course for two reasons. The first one is that I’m not particularly interested in Wittgenstein and think he is overrated, most in my class disagree, I want to find out why. The second reason is that the professor (and this is a real professor not someone calling himself that just because he gives higher edu. lectures… although this one does that too… give lectures; not calls himself a professor because he does it… give lectures) is about to retire. He has for a while been writing on a book on Wittgenstein, the final interpretation, as he jokingly describes it. The lectures are to be given through that book. Seems interesting enough.
But, until all that starts I’m going to write another Bachelors Thesis and I’m going to continue researching the realms of Contract Ethics and Epistemology. I want to find out if a ‘modern’ view of mind and knowledge can work together with the use of a knowledge restricter (such as Rawls‘ Veil of Ignorance) or if those views of mind and knowledge threatens to fail the whole (Rawlsian) Contractualist project.
So.
Now you know.
Posted in Studies
Tagged john rawls, veil of ignorance, bachelors thesis, epistemology, wittgenstein, late, helge malmgren, artificial intelligence, contractualist, contractarian, rawlsian
Yes, finally!
Summer Love AA is starting to surface around the Internet; on digital vendors.
First up – Summer Love AA on iTunes!
Come one! Go on! Go get it!
My absence from blogging is not only because of shame or un-eventfulness (as I wrote in the last post. No, I’ve also been hard at work getting my next release together. The one I’m presenting here.
Autumn Fall AA, is a continuance of the release before, Summer Love AA, and part 2 of a 4-part suite celebrating the seasons.
The AA, which contains the two songs ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’ and ‘Add to All Noise’ gets shipped of to press and radio today. We, that is Euphoria Sound, has also shipped the release to our digital distributor for… well… distributing. And, since the release will pop up here and there the coming weeks, well only give you September as a release date/period. (If we would want an exact date we would have had to either 1. ship months in advance or 2. be a big label. We don’t do 1. and we’re not 2.)
Ok. So without further delay, I give you: Autumn Fall AA!
I’ve stayed away from the blog, for two reasons.
1. I have not had much to say.
2. I’ve been ashamed.
The second one is because of the fact that ‘Summer Love AA’ still isn’t available; it still has not had its proper release. (And, summer being over and all.)
As I wrote in an earlier post; we found the ball dropper, or what made the ball drop. But, and now I’m going to speak pretty metaphorically, what we thought was where the ball got dropped was not the case. We were told that the ball was dropped in one place but it seems as though the one telling us where the ball was dropped was in fact the balldropper himself.
To sum it up: The balldropper, the real one, can’t drop any balls any more. He got his balldropping ass fired.
Still, the release isn’t out yet. But, it will be. It’s being worked on.
After our (Camilla’s, Bosse’s and mine) vacation we’re back in Gothenburg.
A storm greeted us. Hello Gothenburg, I see you’ve been… the same. (We, here in Gothenburg, really need some government weather authority, modelled after the Chinese equivalent.)
I’ve started to get things together for September, and all that will be happening then. (However, it seems ridiculous to talk about upcoming record-releases when the one, supposed to be, released August 10:th has yet to see the light of day.)
Some pictures from Högfors tomorrow.
Night.
First off, apologies are in order. So, I’m sorry.
Why am I sorry?
Well, it seems as someone has dropped the ball; the ball that is the release of my summer single ‘Summer Love AA’.
It, the single, was set for an August 10:th, world-wide, digital, release.
We’re now onto August 17, and if you’ve checked your digital vendor of choice you’ve seen that the single is not there. It’s not anywhere.
We, and that is the record label Euphoria Sound, together with our digital distributor Phonofile are working to find out what went wrong, and getting the single out there as soon as possible.
It’s frustrating. Not only for myself but for the people working on this project, meeting deadlines, and then: nothing.
Hang with us. We’ll sort it out… tell you when.
Working with a video-director, who’s on the other side of a vast ocean, is hard, logistically. Still, I managed to get the files, the video files; footage, of me, for the video, to Stewart today. I’ve uploaded all the stuff on a server and no I just keep my fingers x-ed that Stewart has a pretty fast Internet-connection.
As you all know, all who read this blog, Stewart Smith is doing a video for an upcoming release of mine, a song called ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’. Yesterday saw us shoot some material for that video. (Not Stewart and I, but Brandt, Rob and I. Stewart is in London, we’re not.)
I’m pretty exited by this. Not only because the video is done by Stewart (who has proven himself in that field) but also because it’s a video, per say. It’s kind of strange that in this age of moving image, and moving images close relationship with music, this is only my second video, and first one as a solo-artist.
Ok. So Brandt, Rob and I meet up at a photo-studio here in Gothenburg. Brandt set the lights, camera (action!) and so on. Rob handled the scripting. And, I sang and acted like that was the only thing I had ever done. (Not really. In an embarrassing turn of events it turned out that I did not really know the lyrics to my own song…)
Got a text message from Brandt, just a few minutes ago. He had looked at the filmed material and cut out all the bad takes. Now we’re going to ship it all to Stewart in London.
You’ll see the end result soon!
Not much going on today.
I’ve been to the doctors. Getting ultra-sound treatment on my ass. My ass, in which there is a muscle which seems to be too short, and which has; in which there is, an inflammation. You could say that it, the muscle thing, has been a pain in my ass. And, since the pain in my ass is in me; you could say: I’m a pain in my ass. Fun.
Going back on Friday for more… of the ultra-sound. Friday the 13:th. I mean, what can go wrong? You know. I’m just lying there on my stomach, with my ass in the air, my bare ass in the air, covered in gunk (not the whole of me, just my ass, because apparently one has to have ones ass covered in gunk for the ultra-sound, and the machine that makes that sound, to take), with a machine pointed on-to my ass… by a nurse…
Oh my, so much could go wrong.
Cancel?
Ok. As you can see, I’m fiddling around with the WP-themes. As my CSS-skills are, shall we say, limited, It’s going to be a couple of days of odd-looking. I will, however, reach a point of satisfaction, or compromise… or just giving up. One of the three.
Got a mail from KG late las night. It included a picture of a camera, my camera. He asked if the camera was mine and if he should bring it to me. I said yes, and that he should.
This means I have the pictures deprived from/of you yesterday.
Here we go.
First up:
Michael Stooss, in a picture from the day before yesterday. Kind of a meta-picture. You’ll see the end result of this photo shoot soon.
More:
Lars-Martin (here pictured) thought this would be a nice pic. Our ‘to-do’ list for the song we were working on.
Further:
Ok, it’s not the Copacabana, or the Himalayas but I’ve been in plenty studios with worst views than this one.
More:
KG left me a little easter-egg type picture in my camera. A nice ‘street-art’ kind of thing. A sign warning for slippery surface ['Halkrisk' in Swedish] turned a sign for Crises ['Kris' in Swedish] with a nice Edvard Munch wink.
Even more:
This is how happy I was when KG returned my camera.
Last:
This is how happy KG was at returning my camera.
And, that’s your lot for now.
Posted in Music, Reality
Tagged Music, recording, studio, camera, kg, lars, martin, hall, photo, shoot, michael, stooss, theme, css, kristofer, göransson, plays, view, copacabana, himalayas, edvard munch, the scream
Happy Monday to you all! Because you know, Mondays like rock… or whatever.
Today I’ve been to the studio (Studio Väst) with Lars-Martin. Finishing up the recording of a new song. I took a lot of pictures and then, as one does, proceeded to forget the camera, in the studio. Yeah. So you’ll have to do with a descriptive text:
Lars-Martin sitting on a stool, in-font of a desk, on which there is a computer and a mixing desk and studio monitors. I’m behind the mic singing (off key). Wooden floor, white and orange walls.
More fun stuff:
Yesterday I headed out on the town, and the woods, with photographer Michael Sto0ss. New press images on their way.
I took some pictures for you of that aswell. But you know, their in the forgotten camera. So, another descriptive text:
Me sitting on a bench, next to a large pile of crap, having my headphones on. Michael sitting in-front of me, with a camera in hand and a big flash on a stand next to him.
Yeah.
Posted in Music
Tagged recording, studio, monday, sing, camera, lars, martin, hall, photo, shoot, michael, stooss, väst
Prince, in an interview, once said that he thought that he could write a song a day for the rest of his life. (He also, recently said, that the Internet was dead, as far as a mean for distributing music goes, but that is beside the point.) Now, if Prince could write one song a day for the rest of his life, what would he do with them all?
I ask this because I’ve been to the studio with Lars-Martin today, as I have been before, and the main lesson I learnt (because of today and days before) was that: recording a song takes more than one day.
So, for every song Prince writes he needs (at least) two days to record… does not add up.
We did not finish today, but will finish on Monday when I go back.
Here’s a picture of us both:
Pretty natural looking if you ask me.
Since I did not have time to do anything but be in the studio and take the dog for a walk, today, the second picture (because apparently I need two) is this one:
Speaks for itself really.
The Situation:
A couple of days ago I was out on my (almost) daily power-walk/run.
I walked past a parked car.
The car was parked on a bus-stop.
There were two people sitting in the car and a third standing outside, leaning in, through an open front window.
I overheard the conversation between the ones in the care and the one outside the car.
The one on the outside was giving the ones on the inside instructions; instructions on where to drive to end up in (what I assume was) the right and prefered destination.
My take on it (the situation):
The people in the car were tourists.
The one outside was a local, waiting for a bus, giving a helping hand.
Thoughts and feelings:
As I walked past the car and gathered my thoughts on the situation I started to feel good about it all. I imagine that they noticed me, if only in their peripherals, and I thought of situations where I had been ‘in the car’ (so to speak); been a tourist watching what I thought were locals pass me by on a street; sitting next to me on the tube; at a cafe or whatever.
Now, I’ve never been one to enjoy the feeling (even the slightest) of being lost or, of being out of control. Being a tourist evokes both of these feelings. (And, maybe this is why I do not like traveling very much.) This presented situation was just the reverse, and also: the people in the car gave me a nice contrast; or something, someone to contrast my own feeling to.
As I power-walked I was not lost and I was in control.
I liked it. I like having a feeling of ‘home’. I like that there are streets on which I have walked so many times, and in so many ways, that they can’t be unfamiliar; that I do not need to ask any random person waiting for a bus for instructions.
Maybe ‘we all’ do not need a place to call home.
But I sure do.
(Just leaves the rather open question of defining ‘Home’.)
So. Monday. And I’ve been a bit absent (from here; the blog).
Why is that?
Well.
On Friday my niece had a child, a baby boy.
On Saturday my sister had her birthday.
That same night Camilla, The Boo and I followed her home. She lives on a small island, out in the archipelago. We were hoping to score some sun and some salt water swims.
On Sunday it was summers coldest day yet, 13°… and rain. Massive rain.
So we ended up going for a dog walk.
The Boo found some sheep.
Which he barked at. As The Boo usually does… when he sees sheep.
In other news ‘Summer Love AA’ has been getting som initial press:
In Norway through Eardrums.
In Spain through Muzicalia.
In USA through itsatrap.com.
Always nice to get some press. Hoping more stuff will surface.
Posted in Music, Reality
Tagged a, AA, birth, birthday, bosse, camilla svärd, eardrums, it's, love, musicalia, sheep, summer, the boo, trap
