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Ever So Much Fun - DVD
Original Musical film based on Nietzsche's doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence and the television series, The Twilight Zone. Music composed in 2003, film completed in 2005, and released in 2008.
This is a musical film first and foremost, but telling a philosophical story with post-modern and black and white film noir style elements. It's narrative is almost completely through subtitles from the classic writings and aphorisms from Frieidrich Nietzsche, and the drama is purely through pastiche of Twilight Zone film stock.
The original story, however is a contemporary depiction of the experience and sensibilities of a young artist, who in this generation knows how to incorporate and reappropriate elements of pop culture to express his personal experience, and give expression to the ambivalences of creative life in the 21st century. As voiced by the opening aphorism from Nietzsche:
"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but by seeing the old, well known thing, which is seen and overlooked by everyone, as something new. The first discoverer is usually that quite ordinary and unintellectual visionary - chance."
This film finds something new in the fusion of these old and well known elements, and the experience of finding how uncanny they fit together was as if by chance, giving the composer-director quite a first hand 'Twilight Zone' type experience. And for the audience, the film resolves with a positive message about how even the existential mysteries and ambivalences can be redeemed through art and expression.
This is a musical film first and foremost, but telling a philosophical story with post-modern and black and white film noir style elements. It's narrative is almost completely through subtitles from the classic writings and aphorisms from Frieidrich Nietzsche, and the drama is purely through pastiche of Twilight Zone film stock.
The original story, however is a contemporary depiction of the experience and sensibilities of a young artist, who in this generation knows how to incorporate and reappropriate elements of pop culture to express his personal experience, and give expression to the ambivalences of creative life in the 21st century. As voiced by the opening aphorism from Nietzsche:
"Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but by seeing the old, well known thing, which is seen and overlooked by everyone, as something new. The first discoverer is usually that quite ordinary and unintellectual visionary - chance."
This film finds something new in the fusion of these old and well known elements, and the experience of finding how uncanny they fit together was as if by chance, giving the composer-director quite a first hand 'Twilight Zone' type experience. And for the audience, the film resolves with a positive message about how even the existential mysteries and ambivalences can be redeemed through art and expression.
One For The Angels - CD
The latest CD released December 2006 on Imaginary Records. Funky instrumental compositions featuring heavy fretless bass, jazz horns, electronic grooves, and sophisticated moods.
Epistle - CD
2004 release. Bass-oriented instrumental compositions in the jazz fusion style with funk, soul, and trance grooves.
GB3 Live Originals - CD
2001 Release. Bass-led jazz improvisation with funk, hip hop, and the avant-garde recorded live in concert