...from the dark corners of my mind...

DJ Log: March 15, 2011 – ~5:30AM (USA Eastern)
Text color legend: • NON-DREAM • NOTES • DREAM • LUCID •

I am composing a musical piece in real-time on an interactive video drafting table by arranging various pieces of food on top of the table. The table is a large flat-screen TV with thin wooden slats arranged in an 8 by 16 matrix to hold the food in place. Pieces of fruit represent the vocal sections and different pieces of meat are the musical elements. Pork chops, hamburgers, and hot dogs make up the beat sequence and bacon is a bass line. To create unique bass lines, I bend and fold slices of bacon into various shapes, press them onto a hot skillet to make them hold their shape, and then place them on the table to create different synthesizer bass lines. Every piece I add changes or adds something to the musical loop. If I find that a piece of food does not create the desired sound, I eat it and select a new piece. There is a large folding table full of all kinds of food to use in making music. The music I am creating has a hard psy-trance beat and growly bass lines, accompanied by happy, childish vocal lines.