I don’t know if it’s interesting or exasperating to my listeners that I have so many different projects, many of which blur into each other stylistically. Some artists prefer to use one primary project name and allow it to mutate into any style at all, from track to track, or album to album. Mostly I don’t do that, although Djinnestan and Tree Helicopter have changed over the years.
Ice Guild Kaiser is a new project I’ve started, which is mostly an alter ego (and anagram) of Saluki Regicide. It was spawned (sort of) from necessity. Both Saluki Regicide and Djinnestan each have their three Rain albums, which is the arbitrary limit I’ve set for any individual project to contribute to the series. Yet I have a new Rain recording which could fit into either of those projects, but not any of my others. So…
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This new thing is a long time overdue.
For many years (since late 2002) cpmcdill.com was a static html site, which has barely changed in all that time, except for minor page updates and a circa 2004 upgrade to include css.
It had come to look quite stale, and I’ve outgrown the design I’d originally given to it. It just wasn’t me anymore. As there are a lot of different sides to my creative work, I hope that instead of just making very rare page updates, I can report on my doings in this more dynamic blog format, and keep the activities grouped as categories or keywords.
I feel today marks a certain important anniversary. On March 31, 2001 I started getting serious about being creative again. Growing up, I was always doing anything creative I could, making drawings, paintings, sculpture, poetry, music/sound collage, stories, yes literally anything. This lasted right up through the years of art school in the late 80s, and then it kind of died, except for very brief flashes every few years, seldom lasting more than a week.
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