Badsleeper Life

Today I suddenly felt it important to begin documenting my artistic endeavors. I’ve had a lot going on with music lately and I reason that it will help me get my thoughts in order.

My music project ‘Badsleeper’ is just about to finish our new single ‘Earthquake’. It’s been an arduous process trying to put this track together. Like many songs I write, it’s been dwelling in development hell for years on end. I’ve managed to resurrect it with the help of a great producer and the encouragement of some cherished people. It was over 3 years ago that I was piecing together random sounds in a Logic loops session – sounds that would ultimately transform into the track I intend to release this month.

It’s by far the most ambitious thing I’ve ever made. Dense vocal harmonies, obscure samples, ominous and frenetic synthesizers, and villainous, pitch-shifted narrations. I want to say I’m curious how it will be received, but I am also making music with a vivid understanding of a simple truth: very few people will ever give a s**t about your music. There’s just so much of it out there. A heavenly sky of masterpieces. A bottomless chasm of drivel. An infinite fog of mediocrity. How high the likelihood one’s homespun sonic effort will simply drown a muffled death in an ocean of blaring noise. It’s a labyrinthine world. But the intrigue in the thought that someone could stumble through this Borgesian insanity, the audio files of the Library of Babel, and discover your song, it seems enough to carry on. What good is a dream if it is not, in some sense, absurd?

I’ve been devoting a tremendous amount of time (and money) to producing this music, yet I simultaneously don’t care much about many people hearing it. I guess I am truly doing it for the love of the game. It’s liberating and wonderful to make art. “We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams”

Once the song is released I’m looking forward to making another video explaining the history of the song, how it was produced, the challenges involved in making it, the whole lore behind it all. And I’m definitely hoping to get my co-conspirator Jonny involved in the video this time around. That will be up on our Youtube when the time comes: (https://www.youtube.com/@bad.sleeper) Our first single ‘Tomorrow’ along with my video explanation for it are currently available there.

Looking forward to more posts about Badsleeper, along with posts documenting my piano practice and music reflections throughout the week. There is an unending tunnel of learning and exploration before me, I intend to charge into it. Brazenly, blindly.

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges