spurn by katharine eastman

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the fourth and probably final (for now) in my little sequence of albums that, well, sound like this - a bit like Oval at their best, or, according to the stats, Kathy at her worst. As ever, though it hardly needs saying by now, this stuff is best heard very very quietly - indeed so quietly that many of the gaps need to be filled in with your own imagination - and they will always be the best bits, whether it's my music or anyone else's
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As I've said many times before - and being a minimalist you will of course be expecting much repetition from me - when I started making albums early this year I vowed to make just one type of music over and over and over again - it was my bid to become famous and rich and a Proper Musician - cos I'd noticed that all other f/r PMs just did one type of music for their whole lives.

You'd've thought that it'd be pretty easy to just make the same album over and over again. But I've found it quite difficult. At the start it was random keys and random gtr twangs ..... then the guitar started to disappear and things got very minimal and sometimes rather pretty .... then things got purely ambient ..... then beats came in and I became a looser loser lofi-ier type of minimal techno-ist ..... now I'm doing distant pretty-ish barely-there keys with a mixture of mixed-up and repetition/echo.

I'm surprised - I don't have the musical talent to make one type of music, let alone several. I use the crappest cheapest keyboards, a nice microphone, free'n'easy software, I get bored very easily and can only make albums if they take less time to make than they take to listen to - which happens more often than not.

The hardest part of making an album, I've found, is taking an okay photo to put on the "cover". I only have a crap charity-shop camera which takes rubbish photos unless the sun is shining - though mercifully my freebie photo software can turn any sky blue at the rightward sweep of the hue/chroma level.

And I've never been a very visual person and photos have never been big in my life - this is maybe why I'm not on social media, I really don't want to carry a selfie-stick round with me through all 200 countries of the planet.

Perhaps I should join Instagram - where the photo is the thing - and I could add my own background music (no idea if this is possible - and no it really doesn't matter) and then I'd get lots of likes and the music would come more achingly and maybe even start to mean something, whatever "mean" means.
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(recorded yesterday and this morning, photo Hull last week)
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