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21/12/2017 0 Comments Neverending AnthemI once heard a man say...
rock n' roll can never die I never knew the reason why /when I looked in his eyes / I thought I saw a tear inside. I once heard a band play... with such emotion the room was spinnin' in motion I was blinded by the light the doorway was in sight. And then, when I came back the whole world had changed the Cold War era seemed to thaw the European theatre shocked when the Iron Curtain dropped Then the vultures descended true culture undefended the corporation made us slaves with a wage lust in service of darkness. We will not be chipped or controlled. We will not be sold. Commodifying all the things that matters to we human beings We serve not your master. This song will not be made into your anthem human art is a right for this we will fight and your children will pay. the part of the show I most remember was in the end I realized the writer had us all along in the grips of a pen we might change the end again. Of course I understand the inclination to romanticize the past but now and then it really was - better back then because money took over.. and history has re-itterations like in 1969 to the valley one more time on the day the music shines then the whole planet has a human celebration of what it means to be alive to exist! with curious minds! to dream! with open eyes! -with rock bands playin' in the sky I once heard a man say... The arc of history is long, - but it bends towards justice. 1/5/2016 0 Comments Where do ideas come from?When it comes to lyrics, I find it especially interesting that many of the questions I hear seem to involve some iteration of the phrasing where do they... *come from.* If I feel "blocked" -- the thing that helps me, most of all, is just to stop trying so hard.  MATAMOROS, MEXICO - taking a break during the recording of the electroacoustic concept album and sound art piece "Submadreamgun" (Alex Sharp Cole) -- the completed version of which was presented later that year at an art exhibition in San Francisco. ("Into the Hollow") Not only is perfectionism's "disciplined" approach unnecessary -- it is actively destructive. It makes beginners feel like they aren´t good enough and experts feel like they are never, ever finished. It is the worst.
The concept of perfectionism is Puritanical and ludicrous -- it presupposes that all we do in the name of "discipline" (a joyless activity) has a positive effect on creative output. The truth is quite the opposite. The destructive consequences of this all-too-prevalent attitude in the western world is so extreme that it can destroy the confidence of its practitioners. 28/4/2016 0 Comments A Message for "the Kids"I wish that all the kids in the West and, why not, the world, would decide to rebel against their parents at the exact same instant. And in that moment, all the war and prejudice in the old world would be gone.
It would be a collective decision to unite in the name of rock n' roll, or some other high ideal. "... the kids from Brooklyn to Tehran fell into the same silence / as the kids out West with TV sets stopped to listen for a moment / a new world was born . . ." |
AuthorAlex Sharp Cole is an performative artist, musician and academic. Archives
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