Thursday, April 30, 2020

Art questions May 2020


Q: Do you have any suggestions for an artist facing a creative or existential crisis?

A: Surprise yourself. Daydream, improvise, write, paint, make a mess. It can help you as long as you're doing it playfully and joyfully without worrying.

Be an art lover. Being an art lover is just as important as being an artist. There's nothing wrong with not being an artist. You don't have to do it.

You can be a failed artist, but it's harder to be a failed art lover. Make sure your taste is broad enough so you won't stay in one place.

We already have enough art haters. It's easy to be a smart-ass who doesn't feel anything. Complete emotional flatline while you're staring at the surface, polluting the atmosphere with stupid jokes because you can't do anything else.

Q: Do you want to be famous?

A: You have to ask: famous for what? I want everyone to see and hear my entire body of work. That's the intention.

It's all relative. Our world consists of smaller worlds. Some of my favourite artists of all time are considered obscure. They're never going to win any popularity contests. Why would you even want that?

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Writing my 11th album - Nyctophony


I have almost finished writing the 4th Vengeful Semblance album. Ever since the 1st album I've been exploring the possibilities of Avant-garde Black Classical.

After releasing the "Black Trilogy", I started working on a "White Trilogy".

BLACK TRILOGY:
Vengeful Semblance (2019)
Instruments of Unveiling (2020)
Muses with Tin Tongues (2020)

WHITE TRILOGY:
Nyctophony (2021)
TBA
TBA

Avant-garde Black Classical ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut.

https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/

https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Top 20 soundtrack main themes


1954 La strada (Nino Rota)
1955 Les diaboliques (Georges Van Parys)
1958 Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
1960 Psycho (Bernard Herrmann)
1962 Cape Fear (Bernard Herrmann)
1962 Mondo Cane (Riz Ortolani)
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone)
1971 A Fistful of Dynamite (Ennio Morricone)
1971 A Clockwork Orange (Wendy Carlos)
1973 Amarcord (Nino Rota)
1976 The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
1976 Carrie (Pino Donaggio)
1976 The House with Laughing Windows (Amedeo Tommassi)
1977 Suspiria (Goblin)
1978 Halloween (John Carpenter)
1987 Angel Heart (Trevor Jones)
1992 Candyman (Philip Glass)
1992 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Angelo Badalamenti)
1996 Crash (Howard Shore)
2001 Mulholland Drive (Angelo Badalamenti)

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Roast of Checklist Approach


"Creative", check. "Imaginative", check. "Stimulating", check. "Challenging", check. "Meaningful", check. "Serious", check.

I'm sorry, it's hard to take any of this seriously when you're obviously here to please someone else.

"Creative" and "Imaginative" submissive zombie. Anxious, blind, bored out of your mind... and you keep telling yourself it will be for the benefit of mankind.

The principal thing you've managed to establish is an organised form of self-hatred. The self-indulgent spectacle of you punishing the shit out of your own posterior.

It's hard to respect an artist who's gathering worn-out ideas like a paranoid, pathetic, sick little creature. All the things that worked before. All branded with the sense of importance.

Speaking of importance: nothing says creative freedom more than slavishly filling out your social awareness bingo card. You might as well singe a stigmata on your forehead. Or how about "It Worked Before" tattooed on your ass.

What you have is a temporary sense of efficiency. Perfectly efficient until something shattering comes along and blows away your precious little lists and cards. The panic in your eyes. Check and check.

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Punastuva - Blushing


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

20 Years of Music


"Composers compose until they decompose."
Billy Connolly

I cannot overstate the amount of music I made as a teenager. It was like an explosion of melodies. I was filling every piece of paper I could find and sitting at the computer for hours programming demos.

This year I'm celebrating 20 years of making music and I'm currently... making more music.

The fourth Vengeful Semblance album will be out in 2021.

Monday, April 13, 2020

Avant-Malade


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Usko salattuun - Believe in the Unseen


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Monday, April 6, 2020

Roast of Stale Realism


To the best of my knowledge, I am a real person. Laughing, crying, struggling, dreaming, questioning, actual somebody.

So, as a true representative of reality, I have a real question: What good is realism if frantic prostitution and repetition drains the life out of it?

Thousands of people doing this. Thousands of artists doing this. I'm getting a severe headache. Depression dulls my perception. Is that real enough?

There are 948,929 tutorials on how to draw the perfect nose hair. Vivid, faithful, lifelike, authentic yanker's delight.

The perfect eyelash with all the crusty bits that lie therewithin. Talk about realism. Can I get a realistic amen! No?! OK.

I've seen you flaunt your so-called real stuff. You disturbed photo freaks, hyperheads, anatomy pervs and charcoal-breathing weirdos. Oh, it's gotta be the real stuff. You know, like a flowery, heroic likeness of a polished celebrity with a moronic expression on his washed-out face. You need some serious skills to make that exciting.

How you're able to do this without erasing every trace of your sanity is a real mystery. How do you measure your success? What's the most genuine way to measure that? Numbers, of course. There's nothing like the wholesome, natural high you get from your 56 million likes.

I hope you had fun. You like real, remember? Now you can go back to your tutorial, "How to draw dramatic lighting on testicular blood vessels without overshadowing the wrinkles."

Sunday, April 5, 2020

The Two Commandments of Art

1 Show me the work.
2 Don't talk too much.

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Paniikki - Panic


Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.