Cut Chemist, ‘Add Your Own Personal Emotions’ Cut Chemist has paired up with DJ Shadow for their Renegades of Rhythm tour, which honors and pays homage to the great Afrika Bambaataa. The man himself attended both shows the spin duo played at Irving Plaza last week, making a nice surprise for fans. FDRMX had a chance to chat with Cut Chemist (Lucas McFadden) after the show on Friday, and learned that the connection with Bambaataa (Kevin Donovan) goes back to when he first started, in ‘84. Both hip-hop DJ’s strive to convey emotion through their music, and Cut Chemist in particular prides himself on being able to do this, even if he doesn’t necessarily consider himself a great musician. “I’m one of those people that gets upset when people don’t feel what I feel, like, ‘How come they don’t feel what I feel after this?’ which is kinda of adolescent,” he laughs. “It’s true, I want to make things that convey an emotional landscape. So as an artist I try to do that. I like to make it personal so… To make my art unique, it has to be personal,” he continues. “You know, as much as somebody might try to sound like somebody else, when you add your own personal emotions to it, and your own experiences, that’s what makes it,” he explains. “That’s also why it takes me such a long time to make stuff, because it’s so draining mentally, like …show more content…
Whenever I try to do stuff, that kind of factors in what’s going on, it gets scrapped,” he says. For example, “I tried to make a dubstep beat once and I just couldn’t do it. My body could not do it. And I don’t hate it, I like dubstep. I was like, ‘I need to know how to make this,’ and I just couldn’t,” he explains. “I bought all the programs, all the ‘this-is-how-you-make-a-dubstep’ software, and I still couldn’t do it,” he jokes. As far as we could tell, fans weren’t in the least bothered by the lack of dubstep beats in his set, and rightly so, because, as he puts
There are many things in life that can help get a point across, but nothing can quite compare to the way art does. Art can display so many emotions, stories, and an overall feelings with nothing but a simple picture. George Lopez discusses art and how it imitates real life. This statement can sometimes be true, to a certain extent. Through art, there are so many expressions and feelings to be heard. Art can say a lot without saying anything at all. Typically, art likes to lean toward an extreme for every genre. Like discussed in the documentary “George Lopez: Brown is the New Green”, George Lopez brings up the point that he believes the establishment should change its marketing technique toward Latinos, so that it has a more of a realistic
After the Prelude album, 2002 began a stale moment until he began putting together a project called Alchemy of Sound that later changed to DJversion666. He explained that he chose the name as he had been djing in an mostly open format I chose that name, as I had been djing for a few years up to now. He attributes most of his gain back into music to Exemia, whom has collaborated on remakes of his songs, such as “Goodbye World”. It was the beginning of having his music with the exception of instrumentals and “Future Gods”, on contemplation CDs. It resulted in him joining darkTunes Music Group when his album was completed and independently posted on Bandcamp. We asked him about upcoming endeavors since his new site was launched through Tangent D. Noir’s TheXFactory (a creative
Sometimes a simple life event that occurs to most people and is not even noticed can mean so much more when put in a poem. In Taylor Gorman’s poem “Cut”, this is exactly what the author does. He takes a simple event like cutting yourself and then writes a poem and lets the reader imagine what it means or should mean. Most critics would agree that a poem that seems very simple on the outside may contain a much deeper meaning if studied in depth, as is the case with Robert Frosts, “A Road not Taken”. “’The Road not taken’ has always been extremely popular with readers and critics alike. On the surface, the poems premise is simple, but critics have examined the poem in detail and have discovered depths of meaning not apparent in casual reading.”(Lee 2) He begins with the simple cut, and what most people do afterwards, which is continue with their life and ignore it. “There is a cut in your face from shaving. You can feel it burn, but you don’t remember ever cutting yourself shaving. You have good skin, but there it is: a cut in your face from shaving. Still, you go about your day.” (Lines 1-3) However, the author after this takes it to the extreme which is the person becoming somewhat like a ghost in the end of the poem. This then gives this poem a possibility to have a much deeper meaning, such as maybe the cut means something different or just has a deeper meaning. The author’s use of
She starts of by reminiscing about “graffiti’s beginnings” and how it was about “empowering people who had no voice” and graffiti was an “exhilarating chapter in the city’s history” (Grayson par. 5). This is appropriate for her audience because it reminds them why graffiti belongs in New York, and makes them happy to remember this beautiful artwork they remembered seeing. She then goes on to make her audience feel guilty for the negative conception they have about the artists and their art. She evokes that guiltiness when she says, “it is ludicrous to think that an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum would have inspired gangs of graffiti goons … You know what inspires tagging? Bad architecture. Commercialism. The sanitized state of the city” (Grayson par. 9). It is appropriate because it makes the audience realize that this was a great thing for the city and they need to get it
Since ancient times, the word artist has acquired different connotations. It has been quite an inquiry to define it, and even with the most meticulous meanings, the word still has kept its mysterious singularity to define the whole purpose of a man. Being an artist is more than just a philosophy, and the concept belongs to a vast range of abilities of self expression. It has been said, that one of the most common abilities is that of being able to reinterpret experiences, societal pressures, adversities during childhood, successes and failures, and translate them into a creative form attractive to others (Nguyen, 2011). This specific ability is directly associated with the uniqueness the artist will start to develop during his career, and also constitute an important part in their formation as a person as they will be able to open and expose themselves into the fierce criticism or affable acceptance of the rest of the world.
As I have grown older in years (and thankfully with the help of my husband’s vast music collection), I have come to learn more about Hancock’s musical life. His fusion of Jazz and Electronic music has influenced many in the music industry today.
You can express anything you want to though art. It is like an open door leading you anywhere you want to go. Some hide their feelings in front of people but when their backs are turned, they become whatever they want to be. Just as Banksy expressed his feelings through graffiti, and Nelson Mandela through words, Bonnie Story expressed her’s through dance.
Being truthful on an objective voice within our writing is something that can be impossible because of how we express ourselves with our personal experiences and the way people interpret it. We can’t say that our writing or our voice does not have originality because it is a buildup of other people’s thoughts and discourses. Your “unique voice” is not really just your own voice according to James E’ Porter. Donald Murray says that writing is always something personal, so in all sense he thinks, all writing is autobiographical. Murray does not refer to autobiographical as someone telling a story about themselves, but more about the nature of the text and on how it contains traces back to its writer.
”He would like to show his drawings to his dad, but he didn't dare. When he was in first grade, he had told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. He'd thought his dad would be pleased. He wasn't.” ever since Jess was little his dad didn't approve of his dreams and aspirations. This would be quite had on a kid to handle. In Jess’s dad's eyes he was supposed be this masculine guy that works hard and is strong, But Jess didn’t fit into these stereotypes. Its frustrates me because we are all trying to be perfect and fit into these molds that society has created for us that we don’t even bother to actually discover who we are and what we like. Jess enjoyed painting and no one should’ve put him down and told him not to do it, because we should do things we enjoy and are fun. We shouldn’t be only do things just because someone else is doing it or if we do it we become “popular”. Popularity has started to overcome our lives. It's your life and you should be trying to make yourself happy and not trying to fit in. we should all be ourselves, and not let anyone stop us from doing things that we enjoy. Leslie shows him that he does not need to fit into that particular mold that his dad wants him to be and that he is should just be who he wants to be and express what he likes.
Her ideas and experiences not only shaped the significance of her surrealist depictions, it exhibited the elements and principles that is behind the painting’s meaning and emotional response.
Through the invocation of uncertainty, art renders the spaces that separate our individual realities visible. Uncertainty is the mental state that gives rise to internal questions aimed at our own lives and motives, and in turn requires us to either reaffirm or to shift our beliefs. To discuss our uncertainties are to breathe them into reality because our thoughts dwell inside our bodies until they are spoken, and that eviction is irrevocable. Art that rips thoughts from their comfortable hiding place within my subconscious, and either renders me speechless, or removes a cork from a suppressed river of emotion within my psyche is the kind I appreciate the most. Whether the art evokes positive emotion when i first begin to understand it, or if it only creates pleasure in my mind after a period of shrill curses and
...ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and like - all these have no kind of concern with it (americanvisions).” Art should be considered in terms of color, line, shape, space, composition, and should be removed from the question of meaning and purpose or whatever social, political, or progressive statements the artist had hoped to make. It has been argued that, because the purpose of art is to protect and increase the values and delicacy of civilized human beings, art should attempt to remain distant from the uncomfortable influences of contemporary culture. Art is subjective to the viewer. Art is a melting pot of technique and mediums with each example differing from the next. Art is the expression of emotion, thoughts, sight, and feelings. Art is for the purpose of Art – Art for Art’s Sake.
"And it's a good thing, too. I'm still tired from yesterday's job. Modeling is hard work."
He goes on to explain how its ubiquitous presence in the story causes everyone to quantify their actions and emotions, and to...
As he grew up in a small city in India, he was subjected to a different kind of a advertising world. The most common things that dominated the streets were various depictions of the most popular themes of that time like commercial advertisements, political messages and also celebrations of religious festivals. He noticed that almost all the works on the streets were hand painted by local painted than the digitally designed designs or vinyl. Also travelling within India from one part to another revealed the variety in style and technique. He also mentions that he had always been fascinated by the street art like shop signage or hand made type. Truck art also belongs to that same culture of hand painting, which inspired him to take up this project.