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’.
Well, things do change over time, and it appears that each year, I had the impetus to sit down and try to define Day For Night in a new way that got me excited, and would trigger an opportunity to share something unique. Here’s one of the more pointless, and pompous attempts: What is Day […]
Day For Night has evolved primarily by means of accretion of music-based projects, articulated via an ongoing artistic monologue, and interpreted through audiovisual design; As inspiration enters this process, ideas are formed and recorded early in any media for an immediate response; This tension created by this intuitive-intellectual response informs the Day For Night catalogue, […]
Personal expression sells. I derive my client work from pre-existing personal work. Ideas are neither good nor bad, but are merely awaiting to be positioned, and to find their ideal home. Personal tastes have always been a starting point for any work worth creating; therefore I have (essentially) close personal relationships with my clients and […]
Some of my work is predominantly about loneliness. We write about what we know. I was born alone, have lived alone, and assume that even when we die, we die, probably, alone. Grim, to some, maybe. To me, this is simply fact, and it lacks any particular charge – it is as potentially helpful, as […]
Well, the main reason I do any of this is that I want to leave the world a better place than the way I found it. But what is Day For Night? That’s some question. Nobody knows for sure. But my bet is that it’s something to do with my fascination with music. Every time […]
You know the ones – when your mind simply will not focus, and everything you feel like saying is best summarized by that 4-bar phrase from the song that passes through your head, just long enough to create an impression and then disappear, before a different one from a different song, takes its place. On […]
This is the first page. The objective of a blog with this title, “Obsessions,” is to share some of the reasoning that flows through the creative studio environment, and which influences much of our everyday lives. There must be power in the written word. That is not an ambitious plea; it is an imperative. Otherwise, […]
Art Workshop Event “Record the world in front of youand in the edges of what youcannot or will not see.” – Eric Scott Excerpt from the brief for Tomato‘s workshops: The workshops are a way of immersing yourself suddenly and intensely into the process and conversation that goes on within tomato. Several members of tomato […]
Process What I do What I will continue to do, and what I have to offer What I need from the others What would make an ideal consortium: namely, a unified purpose especially, a team strong by its common tastes (which I am not sure we actually have in common) What do we have in […]
Book | Words & Images by Eric Scott For “Manifesto” (Day 017) Day For Night rethink sub-urban planning, in a typographic journal and overview of Day For Night. Post-Situationist propaganda films covers the walls of NIGHTlinkRail, hammering on about the overthrow of cultural leadership and the entertainment channels that fuel “big news.” Post-revolution theories abound; albeit tongue-in-cheek, while […]
Book (Words: Eric Scott) + CD In Day 030 “Addictions” first two volumes, “Simple words,” “Hazy memories,” Eric Scott joins verse and graphic images. Printed in 4.75″ square format, this very-limited release is housed in a double-cd jewel case, accompanied by a hand-picked selection of finished songs and recordings, most of which were the by-product of these […]
ePub | Interactive Catalogue “Need a Journey Idea or an Away-Day? All Trips Leaving From This Spot Are in the Mind!” warns the billboard at NIGHTlinkRail Station 007. Make the connection to the Outpost (Day 007) – the perfect spot to start a Mystery Tour… Just begin by choosing a Station ID at random from […]
Art Direction Eric Scott, Art & Musical Director for Day For Night: “With instrumental, and especially textural electronic music, the primary relevance of music is clearest – namely, that music doesn’t really mean anything – it doesn’t need all sorts of lyrics and words and gimmicks in order to be successful.” Therefore, it feels appropriate that […]