actually, it's sort of not worth the time. the max i can claim on this is $4000 (for the year) for living expenses, or $10000 for "professional recording expenses" that need to go to a for-profit recording studio.

i have no use for a for-profit studio for what i do, and i'd probably just end up yelling at the engineer until he walks out.

or kicks me out.

so, $4000/yr is basically useless.

the only reason i need to be concerned about applying for the $10000 and then just pocketing it is that it might harm me to renew. i want to avoid that. but i don't know if i'll still be alive in may.

the way the calendar aligns kind of works it out, though. i could maybe...yeah....it does make sense to apply for this, even though it's small.

i'm thinking the jury is probably full of liberal "arts" douches, though, the kind that think that celine dion is a singular talent and a canadian icon, and they're just going to be confused by what i send them.

there's this whole nationalist bent to it. and i'm often not friendly to canada.

but i should do this...

again: this is why some kind of minimal income is ideal to maximize freedom. this jury is not an audience of my peers. this would be more likely to work out if i wanted to be avril or alanis or something - or if i were a local indigenous or francophone singer that was carrying on a "cultural tradition".

it's a fundamentally conservative system. every second sentence says something about heritage (and i'm kind of the view of "fuck heritage!"), but there's not a word about creating new forms.

it mirrors the society.

you have to expect that.

i have to try....it's worth failing for....and it's practice for something else next year, if i make it that long.

they want two audio recordings. i'm going to give them two fragments.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/introduction


https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/second-movement-part-1-rough-part-2


i think these are 'pop' enough to qualify, and yet also have artistic merit.