Quicksand Turi

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Here Forever 7

His Name Is My Name is an Instagram-based animated documentary series from JONGSMA + O’NEILL that explores how the crimes of WWII-era perpetrators still reverberate through today’s society, shaking the foundations of our homes and our families. Part detective thriller and part personal visual essay, His Name Is My Name tracks Eline Jongsma’s investigation into her family’s history, and shines a light into a still-dark corner of Europe’s past.

Watch the film and learn more on Instagram at @hisnamemyname.

Written and directed by Kel O’Neill and Eline Jongsma
Director of animation: Jure Brglez
Interaction design: Imagination of Things (Monique Grimord & Vitor Freire)
Sound design: Aroud Traa
Composer: San Ré
Project manager: Sofia Mourato

Produced in collaboration with Paradox
Founder/director: Bas Vroege
Project manager: Ana Zibelnik

Length of piece: 33 minutes
Format: audio/video, AR, images

This project is made possible by generous funding from the Mondriaan Fund, The Creative Europe Programme, DutchCulture, the Province of Drenthe, and the Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork.

Sakmo

The night I made this track here, entitled Tropic Of Acid, I recall being totally enamored and full of a sense of wonder and inspiration from having just read Henry Miller‘s eponymous Tropic of Cancer, during a heat wave in the preceding days. Miller’s beautiful yet formidable prose seemed to dance right off of the pages and leap directly into my eagerly awaiting eyes to be at once dissected, and then my mind, wholly transfixed. I had just met a beautiful new friend and we were in those first couple of days of getting to know one another. She was so lovely...Such calm emanating from her. So there was that energy coupled with some really dynamite MDMA from The Netherlands, and a little 2CB from some pals at MIT, which had me, shall we say, open to the universe’s many possibilities and scenarios that evening. 

I think we first stumbled into my makeshift recording studio sometime after 10 PM after a few glasses of Shiraz(?) and conversation with the intent of simply giving her a quick tour, and lay of the land so to speak. Quite possibly to show off a little too, since my inhibitions were sufficiently subdued by now. This evolved into me playing her some of the music I had been working on recently. And then, all of a sudden, almost as if I were communing with a higher power - this music and eventually lyrics too, began to disembogue through me. I was but merely its conduit and all manner of ideas began to flow inexhaustibly and with hardly any real effort at all! That doesn't usually happen that way. It went on for hours.  I don’t think we left the studio until almost 7 o’clock the following morning except to use the bathroom of course. I was still a little bit high so was trying not to act overly excited about what I had achieved or what had essentially, gushed through me, rather. Part of me was worried I might have acted a fool, but that soon passed as she took my hand in hers, and planted a soft, thoughtful and purposeful kiss on my lips. She had dug it, too. I do know that there was a definite feeling that something almost supernatural, or omniscient had happened and as I said, I was merely a vessel for some higher being, perhaps. The music needed to come out, threw me, for whatever reason, and it did. She felt something too. It was obvious. We then sat outback around the patio table and listened back to the recording on a  little Bluetooth speaker to our collective amusement and enchantment.

 I still haven’t gone back to finish the track even after all these years later but, I don’t think it really needs much more other than a proper mix in a good studio by a proper mix engineer and then of course mastering would be nice. I had thought about re-cutting the vocal but I don’t know if it’s necessary. Another idea was to have a female vocal double my part. Thought that might be an interesting way to interpret it. In case anyone is curious as to how I arrived at the title for the track - remember Henry Miller's impact on me at that time but instead of "Cancer', I substituted 'Acid'. This was in part to the fact that the 2CB (which closely resembles LSD) I had taken in conjunction with the MDMA that night lent itself to a more controlled Acid-like trip. Most likely a synergistic effect of taking them in tandem. Oh and 'Acid' is also a nod to the Roland 303 Bassline generator I used on the track which inspired the subgenre 'Acid House'. So, double entendre as they say!

 Anyway, please enjoy responsibly. For the company, you keep, the hour at hand and your environment are just as important as the music you select. One has the capacity to ruin the other and vice versa. even with a perfectly good piece of music. Timing is everything, in so many ways.  Enjoy the music!

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Sakmo

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