The Mountaineers Manifesto.

I haven't posted for awhile. Things got a bit difficult. In my mind I have been thinking about this project and what it is all about and what I’m supposed to be doing with it. Maybe I have side-tracked myself away from its first intentions. It was a release. It wasn’t meant to be live it was meant to be me and my computer in a virtual world that isn’t real. It let me not worry about others. Then I got a bit carried away. I want to hear what this will sound like live. I want live musicians. I want it to be easy like it is easy to sit and write music. But this is reality Im trying to focus on and it doesn’t really happen that way. It all makes sense now. I’m not going to force it if it doesn’t happen but it kind of makes sense in the manifest below. I have described what it is the mountaineers sound is trying to do. I’m not the most articulate person but I wanted give it focus so that if all else failed this project is still doing what it is supposed to do. Be my outlet and if I’m the only person to ever listen to it then I am not a failure I have been elated to create the music. It lifts me from myself and I spend hours in a place that, for me, is a relief but also a frustration because I am stuck in the middle of creating music but also wanting others to hear it. The virtual Mountaineers is what I can live with but trying to get it live is a concern. I love the sound I have created and feel comfortable with it but that doesn’t mean everyone else will. I just hope there are other people out there who see things the same as me and want to get involved.

So the point of this is….

This project has evolved and turned into something I feel now has a meaning to me. I am a human being. I go through processes, I feel emotions, I despair, I am elated and I function through electricity and organic matter. The Mountaineers is the sonic representation of my body and soul. My heart beats with electro pulses, my nerves and brain function with electricity. My skin, thoughts and actions are organic. They are natural earthy living things sparked into life by an electro pulse. This in turn gives me an organic pulse, in my veins and in my soul. The mountaineers is my music. It’s electronic organic, natural and processed like me. The classical side represents the natural ability of the body to play instruments and create an atmosphere but never forgetting this comes from an electric charge. The computer brings this electricity to life in the music. Neither one is more important that the other.