In 2023, I created an interdisciplinary arts project that merges my best comedic storytelling with my 30-year background in musical composition and borrowing heavily from my professional experience in web development and visual design. I’ve channeled all of my expertise and skills into this project to create a unique and innovative work of art, music and entertainment.
Writing is at the heart of what Day For Night is, mostly due to the creative nature of work which is sometimes self-initiated, and where there are characters, stories and situations, but the mythology or back-story is left to be explored. It’s been my journey since the age of 10, and which informs my current work ‘Epiphanies’.
Three years later, I was on a rampage, trying to explain my website to the programmers I would interview, about helping me complete an algorithmic system for generating, on-the-fly, a NIGHTlink station (or “project”, like when you go into a derelict part of urban life where a tenement is referred to as “the Projects” because […]
Back when I worked for a studio, not many people understood me, and it was often hard taking credit – or getting credit – for my ideas, because what I was best at rarely materialized in the finished work. So I haven’t included much of that work in my portfolio – it just doesn’t seem […]
…I entered NIGHTlinkRail’s gateway and descended into the extranet that Tuesday, via Station 019. I had a handful of quarters and a haversack, filled with my camera, my steno pad, my walkman (listening to Paris: A Musical Overpass all the way here. What a blast to imagine actually being able to go there from here…or […]
We understand them: they’re regular, on time (mostly) and we like to ride them. It’s important that we learn to connect every new idea with at least one we already understand. That’s all.
…2 years earlier, I didn’t know much yet about the web. To better understand it, I wrote, conceived and designed this thing, and titled it an “Internet Journey-by-Rail.” I needed some inner clarification, while developing the abstract for the connected relationship between separate Days of the catalogue (for which I am presenting 100 total) and […]
The NightLinkRail model is really about the generation and spreading of ideas via the web. It’s a numbers game. The bigger it gets, the more plausible it looks; and the more people who see it, the more people will hopefully talk about it… “Hey, I’ve just seen the craziest thing…It’s just too deep to be […]
The real beef is this – because I keep on asking myself, “How might we view Situationism as most truly relevant today, when we are becoming further immune to Guy Debord’s definition of a society deceived by spectacle? His later admonitions had more to do with a full, but depressed appreciation for how society appears […]
NIGHTlinkRail, an experimental sitework launched in 1997 by DayForNight.com, is a network composed of 100 individual train stations. It parallels the online catalogue of the Day For Night musical imprint, in the form of a series of Railway Stations along what I’ve been referring to as “An Internet Journey-By-Rail.” After descending via escalator into the […]
16:20 Descent from street, onto platform16:20 Move past the accordionist.16:26 The train departs.16:31 Platform ambience16:35 Next train arrives, departs.16:44 Listen to amusing female voice intoning “Mind the gap”16:45 Board train16:53 Listen to tube chatter17:10 Get off train17:14 Embankment arrival
It’s an amazing world, and let’s do that; create what we prefer. Let us always create what we prefer. Let us create something of our own choosing, and allow ourselves the space around that creation, to become a “breathing zone”, for what we choose for ourselves. To support our higher selves — our truest version […]
(Even more than sex…) I fantasize about a tolerant, patient, open-minded society which can handle revolution and rejects the musical spectacle
Why is it important that others align with their higher self, to find this understanding? The goal of all life is, ultimately, to create happiness by meeting all the needs for survival, followed by the needs that lead to self actualization. Maslow identifies this with his hierarchy of needs, which ascends in 5 levels (physiological, […]
She/He may be limited… in space…in experience…in money…in patience…in food…in sexual knowledge…in out of body experience…in good life experience…in bad times… she or he may be limited in time.
I ended up realizing a production goal that year. I digitized and organized my entire back catalogue that year, beginning with those tapes, and including all my 4-tracks, work tapes, DATs, Sound FX, Loops and Samples. Recording became an activity organized from a single hard drive, and with an incremental back up process takign place […]
This work was produced using two hand-held recorders. The difference in timing is accounted for by the variations in playback speeds on the individual recorders, when the two recordings are laid side by side. Additional variations were produced by varying the speaker’s location in relation to the two recorders.
It took 7 years to figure out how I wanted to make music again. What it boiled down to was, I wanted making music to be easy, and free of a lengthy accounting or “clean-up” phase. I also resented how I’d cornered myself using MIDI prior to 1993 — I was afraid of picking up […]
Between 1993 and 2000, I recorded every musical idea on a cassette tape using a dictaphone. I did my best to put dates on the cassettes when I’d finish them, although by the October of 2000, I had 88 C-90s, filled front and back with junk, musical snatches, amusing phone messages, personal journal entries, creative […]
Or the difficult way,but nobody really wants to do that. You adopt this stance Recognizing the commonsense/emotional component of doing somethingBeing kind, helpful, efficient. It serves a very logical side of the brain as well as a compassionate one, being efficient means being considerate to oneself; a simplification that makes life enjoyable. And it’s logical […]
I’m not a fan of doing anything twice. And if I can avoid exhausting personalities and just stay focused all day, then that’s a truly good thing. I guess it all works out.
For me personally, working digitally means that I have a tendency to organize and database certain types of work-in-progress, as a precursor to a lot of the work that I do. For example, in 2003, I finally worked out a relational system for organizing my output, allowing me to work even faster. The prime objective […]
So much goes into the art of narrative, not the least of which is the work. Like when the teachers said, “show your work” because you needed to prove that you knew what you were doing whenever you got the right answer. This unfolds many, many hours of “proof”. Where to begin? Thus far, I […]
I was faced with the proposal of doing a distillation of my work for a cd-rom, but in the end, I voted against it, because I simply did not want to present a reduction or derivation. So there’s a dual motive; most importantly, there’s the artistic one that says that an object is an object, […]
Being a digital artist is a term we hear more and more of. Perhaps it really describes more of an attitude – it’s about how we get organize our work to get digital results, rather than merely being a symptom of using a few of the tools; Photoshop and a drawing tablet alone do not […]
Consider each Catalogue number to be a self-contained thesis in the Post-Situationist-International (SI). Consider each Day to be a looser definition of time; much like the interpretative measurement of days in the biblical sense.
The integration of the Spectacle represents a point where the marketing messages of the corporate broadcast environment intersects and forms a grey zone with the detourned messages of independent thinkers…One might say that the Revolution will be televised. That’s definitely one way to look at it. The spectacle rejects the value of real experience, by […]