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We are in the same community. Welcome.

I regard myself as a recording artist and a visual artist. I’ve released a wide variety of recordings over the past 20+ years to DSPs, licensing, stock, and sync. Mainly ambient, electronic, field recordings, and sound collage. Over 3000 tracks.

About a decade ago, I got over the “quantity / quality” mental hurdle and haven’t looked back. I’ve written about it in my weekly posts on Substack for the past couple of years. Just click through.

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Good. “I’m mildly eccentric” is perfect.

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Really enjoyed this Chad, you opened some doors to new music for me..thx

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Glad to hear it. Thanks for reading Brian!

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Lovely --really captures the nuance between identity and belonging in the creative process. When I think of outsider artists like johnston I think of the common thread which is that they're so removed from commercializing their creative process and seem to create out of a deep inner necessity

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Thanks for reading Rowen. I agree, though interestingly Johnston was the most commercially successful of the musicians mentioned here, and was said to be fixated on becoming famous. That may have been part of his inner necessity.

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