One of the worst things online is having a number next to your name. Number of followers or subscribers. The weird thing about being judged based on that number is that you can't even see all the numbers in one place. There is no "one number". We are not numbers, we are people who live in the real world.
I'm not on Youtube or Bandcamp to make money. I have a day job. People need to know what artistic merit really is. Money is just a bonus to me.
Why am I releasing ten albums this year? Because of the ideas and the creative opportunities. No record label on Earth would allow me to do all these things.
Art is a realm where ideas have a life of their own. That's what it is. Making money should never be the starting point if you want to be a real artist.
No one else has done these things the way I have. There's only one me.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Artistic merit versus money and numbers
Sunday, June 4, 2023
The end of Art Questions 2019 - 2023
This is the end of the monthly art questions.
These questions came from online and real life interactions. Sometimes they were inspired by research.
I have been writing about art since 2014. The writings you will find here in the future will focus on art related topics in a more concentrated way, but I won't do essays.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Erebos Symphonia - out now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6EPDBFHQc
https://rintaperala.bandcamp.com/album/erebos-symphonia
1. Hatched Out of Ardour
2. Messenger of Abyssic Colours
3. Voice Reflection Poetry
4. Music in the Creator's Memory
5. Spiral Pillars
Erebos Symphonia is the 26th album by Rinta-Perälä.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 9 - November 2, 2022.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Friday, May 26, 2023
Destroying the "people are interested in people" scam
People and art are one and the same. We can not be separated. Why the hell would you even attempt that? Apparently some people have decided to do that because they don't give a shit about art.
Whenever I hear stupid things like "people are interested in people" or "people are more important than art", I immediately realise how narrow-minded all this deceitful nonsense is. You can't just say the word people and leave it there. Who are they? What are they doing and what are they truly interested in?
Art is one of the few things that show us what is underneath the surface. Underneath all the bullshit. Is that something you don't like? You're a fan of bullshit? The stinkier the better?
Saying the word community is not enough either. What kind of community are we talking about? What is actually happening? We don't need more shallow pretending. Fake positivity is extremely important and useful to oppressive societies.
Is that the kind of future you're interested in?
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Erebos Symphonia - new album out June 1, 2023
Messenger of Abyssic Colours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ConxfbuCVHk
26th album by Rinta-Perälä. Out June 1, 2023.
Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, September 9 - November 2, 2022.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Fighting commercialism
My whole life I've been told to be like everyone else. I've been made fun of because of my curiosity and imagination. Usually the people who do this are the most boring people on the planet, but anyone can make these mistakes.
Making a mistake is an action. We live in a world where anyone can say anything. A world where the most ignorant buffoons can call themselves experienced. This is the most full of crap period in time.
"Be like everyone else" is something you don't have to say out loud. You just have to create an atmosphere where you have no choice but to be like everyone else. Then you start imagining what "everyone" supposedly wants, what they are looking for.
Paintings, drawings, books, films, music. There's no "one audience" for these things. It's an illusion. People can brainwash themselves into thinking that they're part of some homogenous audience, but it will never work in reality.
Why would you be excited about AI art when it produces soulless wallpaper from stolen ideas? Why would you expect real creativity when there's no room for it?
I cannot tell you how much I hate the idea that everything has to be a franchise. Are people really that desperate and eager to give up? I don't say franchise anymore, I say french fries. It's like consuming french fries until you burst. It's about consumption.
I've been questioning the mindless marketing machinery for decades. Am I not a "real person" because of that? You're not going to break me no matter how much you try.
Monday, May 8, 2023
Art questions May 2023
Q: You mentioned some short stories you were writing four years ago. Have you finished any of them?
A: I haven't finished the first story I started writing, but I basically know the whole structure. It has to be written in Finnish first. I don't have that kind of confidence writing in English.
I've been reading old Japanese ghost stories and a Guy de Maupassant collection. Only reading is reading. The only audio books I have is The Book of Revelation and some poetry read by Robert Graves and T.S. Eliot. When you listen to an audio book, you don't have the same mechanism at work.
When I read short stories, I only know the title before I start reading. The internal mechanism in my mind makes me more of a participant. I cover the last lines with my hand so that I don't see them too early.
The different ways a short story can end are so fascinating.
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Monday, May 1, 2023
Vengeful Semblance - Anatomoire
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/album/anatomoire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0Ydrqtir0
1. Enigmortem
2. Psyhymnory
3. Oculuminal
4. Catastheseeing
5. Fantasmasofagia
6. Deliriodysmorphia
7. Infernascent
8. Pilgriminalis
Anatomoire is the 10th Vengeful Semblance album and the 25th composed by Rinta-Perälä. It was mainly created by rewriting unrelated material from 1999 and 2000.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, July - August 2022.
Vengeful Semblance is against the neo-nazification of Finnish black metal.
Monday, April 24, 2023
Vengeful Semblance - Enigmortem
Enigmortem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wss0CBIrxaM
New album out May 1, 2023.
Anatomoire is the 10th Vengeful Semblance album and the 25th composed by Rinta-Perälä.
https://vengefulsemblance.bandcamp.com/
Art questions April 2023
Q: What's your take on AI and art?
A: Your subconscious has a need to tell and to show. It's always listening and connecting things in a way AI can never recreate.
Memory is not memory without emotion. AI can't remember what only you can remember. What only you can feel.
AI is not as advanced as you think it is. Most of the time it has no interest in uniqueness and only produces wallpaper.
Feed your subconscious, not AI.
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Vengeful Semblance: Anatomoire - Out May 1
Infernascent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_E-FU6RqJA
Anatomoire is the 10th Vengeful Semblance album and the 25th composed by Rinta-Perälä. It was mainly created by rewriting unrelated material from 1999 and 2000.
Music, artwork and production by Rinta-Perälä. Recorded in Silence & Desolation Studio, July - August 2022.
Vengeful Semblance is against the neo-nazification of Finnish black metal.
Monday, April 10, 2023
NCU is currently a one-man movement
At the end of 2022 I announced that ten albums are going to be released this year. The next six will be out on the first day of the month. Three of them are finished.
New Creative Underground is not a record label and I'm not selling anything at the moment. Everything released and created by me is driven by ideas.
I'm doing things I couldn't do on a record label.
Right now NCU is a one-man movement. If you see someone else use/abuse the NCU sign, that's not directly connected to me.
