i had a relaxing weekend of listening to some recently completed music in it's intended state, and compiling collections to end my second compositional period. i'm seeing daylight on this, so i don't expect to be going anywhere for a few days - probably not until the melt banana show on the 14th.

i need to give my lungs a few days to rest to get ready for finishing inri043, and completing inri046-48 is going to mostly be a curled-up-in-blanket-in-front-of-the-pc editing process so it's kind of ideal as that resting period.

i'll need to do laundry and clean and other beginning of the month things tomorrow, but i intend this to be a productive week, in filling in the discography up to inri050.

mp3 disc vol 1 (initial release)

i had to cut this off a little earlier than i wanted, but that's how this is going to have to work. it just wasn't going to all fit. not even close. but, who buys volume 1 without volume 2? so, in the long run, it should be viewed as the first half of a double mp3 dvd disc [how's that for pushing media boundaries?], and the lack of any clear end point isn't that tumultuous.

it's going to be a while before i get to inri084, though.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/mp3-dvd-disc-vol-1

publishing reflections (inri074)

i've also uploaded an ep from 2003, untouched, as inri049. tracks 1-5 are what i consider to be my fifth symphony.

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around october, 2002 i met a friend. i was sort of in need of a friend, and i mean that in the friend sense. but, the mental condition i was in was the explanation of why i needed a friend, if you see what i mean; i was completely unstable in this period and did all kinds of absurd things, which isolated me - and i wasn't getting any better.

i dropped out of school under the realization that i was walking down a path that wasn't getting me anywhere close to what i wanted out of life. i ended up working three jobs to raise money for gender reassignment, and it crossed me paths with somebody that was also trying to think of ways to get out of the box in terms of ways to exist.

she was trying to save up money to go to british columbia. it was some kind of warped take on the grapes of wrath, where everything works out perfectly. but, the rent was eating into her savings, which was making the goal seem impossible. well, unless we stopped having fun.

so, i suggested she should just stay at my parents place. part of it was a hope that she would move her drum kit in, although that didn't happen. and, i might add that this was done with all of the reckless abandon that could be contemplated - we were moving stuff in without even asking, it was really remarkable.

and, it seemed to me that we were getting pretty close over that period.

so, when the time came that she had all that money put aside to go to bc, it was kind of a downer to let her go. and, she initially wanted to go with a friend who dropped out. so, i ended up going across the country with her.

now, i need to be clear: we weren't planning on coming back. we were going to pick fruit or something - we didn't know, exactly, we'd figure it out when we got there.

so, this was meant as a sort of farewell to certain people i hadn't talked to in months and didn't care if i was leaving, anyways. i think it let me work some things out on weird subconscious levels, but the truth is that these songs really aren't about anybody except me, and there's no use in pretending they are - i just liked the idea of a farewell disc.

this disc was initially passed around with a cut up version of the pretentious untitled mix at the end, but this was almost immediately ejected from future burns and is not present on this ep due to the poor quality of the mix. the remaining five tracks became combined into what i now call my fifth symphony. a slightly remixed version will appear on the trivial group double lp.

written and recorded in late 2002 and early 2003. this was uploaded unmodified from a cd-r rip in may, 2015. symphony 5. as always, please use headphones.

credits:
j - guitar, effects, bass, synth, voice, piano, drum programming, generative programming (sounder), granular synthesis, sound design, soundscaping, loops, bowls, claps, tables, ebow, orchestral sequencing, digital wave editing, sampling, production, composition

the various rendered electronic orchestras include piano, synth pad, choir and string section. 

released may 1, 2003

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/reflections

i'm likely going to have inri049 up by mid morning. i just have to listen to it. it's another unmodified upload - the ep i passed around in early 2003.

inri048 (ambient works) and inri047 (thru - midi works) will together function as a sort of quadruple compilation of electronic music over period 2. they're both going to be doubles, and they'll both measure something moving through. i don't expect further compilations, but i will want to pause here and make sure i haven't missed any opportunities. inri047 needs one more song to finish, which is the song in inri046.

inri046 will be the birdsong ep, which will be the final midi music single in the way that defines my output over 2001 and 2002. it will have several vst synthesizer mixes, in undefined directions. it may take some time to develop.

inri043 remains in progress, and will need to remain in progress until i get my voice back a little and can psyche myself up for it. the middle of this week, probably.

inri050 fast forwards several months, and attempts to document material written in an uncomfortable period of time right after i returned from british columbia, including parts written in british columbia.

that gets aleph-5 done: all material related to the sixth record.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/merch/jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj-2-box-set

uploading the flying ep to youtube

this is an old outtake that i'm publishing for the first time, along with it's initial pairing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIUnnbtCIQ&feature=autoshare