This was created using an Alesis QS6 synthesizer one day in Seattle. I wanted an opening theme to my album, something other-worldly, because often I get the feeling I am from another planet. And I have very vivid memories of performing music in front of an audience in a venue that was in some other Galaxy. So, I thought I would approach the album as if I were there at that time. And it was a lot of fun to make an album this way.
At the time, grunge was winding down around the world (and in Seattle NO ONE would admit they ever played ‘grunge’ music) – now the music was being called “alternative” — and as you can imagine, my album and music didn’t really follow the current trend. I never do, anyway. I always try to approach making an album to be as listenable now and enjoyable at any time in the distant future as I can possibly make it. I try to keep it ‘pure music’ as I like to call it. Trends in music usually follow a certain group of sounds (like in hiphop and dance music right now, a lot of people are using the exact same synthesizer sounds) or a certain type of chord progression. Usually it’s one artist that has success by doing something new and it’s a bunch of copycats hoping to have similar success by doing the same type of thing.
So this song is the opening theme of the Zero9 saga — I actually wrote a good amount of fiction to accompany this. It is archived for now, but I’ll post it up in a later post so you can read it and get in to the story.
- Jon