Repost of a very tripy track from the past.

Released in 2016 by Random Recordings.

Free download.

Akasha

The artist must bleed
	by Carlos Garcia [soundcloud.com/qpdb]

"Painting is an art and art is the useless creation of things that disappear into the void, but it is a force which has a purpose and must serve to the development and sophistication of the soul."
Vassily Kandinsky

We have in our hands one of the most important crises in artistic content in Human History. Artistic crises have always manifested and re-manifested themselves along the years, almost all of them based on the over-saturation of an "old way of thinking", copy and re-copy, but I believe that there is one aspect about our time which is fundamentally different from all other artistic crises Humanity has faced: excessive noise. The ease of use of various electronic tools for creating audiovisual artistic content has joined with the absolute lack of substance of the fast paced egocentric and immediate new generations. Everything looks like a copy of something else. It seems that nothing of relevance, no piece completely new and shocking, is ever going to be created again. You know that kind of piece, don't you? It made you cry and be afraid, it put your heart racing because it pushed, sometimes violently, the boundaries of your intellect. It showed you a completely new way of thinking and feeling, but, most important than that, it made you feel that it (the piece) was just one exemplary application,  one tiny manifestation of something unlimitedly more vast. More or less like the tension between theory and practice. The first (what i would like to call 'the artistic concept') is generally vast and comprehensive, making it difficult for someone to contain using limited speech or ideas. It deals with basic feelings and thought; it is not only an approximation of an experience of reality but could (and sometimes should) be seen as "reality itself". It is intrinsically related to the artist and his/her personal, individual and unprecedented experience of reality. It could also be called 'the Artist's point of view' but I'll prefer calling it 'artistic concept'. The second is a temporal-spatial manifestation (the work of art). It has its boundaries, it shows why it exists and what kind of discreet 'problems' it tries to 'solve', but it can be seen as a WINDOW TO THE INFINITE. In fact, it would be better expressed as a window to a window to the infinite.

It is impressive how western society in general has the tendency of giving much more importance to pieces of art than to the minds that created the concepts that created the pieces of art. The study of a work of art should include the deep study of the artist's own personal life. The moments he / she lived had necessarily great impact on the artistic direction that was taken, as art can only be made by a living person, with a whole life happening in parallel, but it is in the apparent ability of transcending personal worries and feelings and so creating something that 'resounds' into a great number of individuals that an artist becomes relevant. Art, as it should be noted from the very beginning of its study, is MADE of paradoxes. The moments the artist lived when creating a piece, his way of thinking and the real, deep motivations he had are greatly important, but only by including all of humanity into his own personal vision can he, as an artist and his art, be TRUE.

When the common person contacts what i would consider to be a true work of art (taking the idea from the last paragraph as the defining condition), if the perception of the viewer is open for 'the new'... then communication in a wordless environment happens. We can always find words to describe this contact, but whatever words we use will always lack something, some real aspect of the experience, some aspect that transcends the meaning (even the possible symbolic ones) of the word. The fact that the piece is communicating something beyond the letter is of the biggest relevance. 

How free an artist is to create! And how free we all are to experience it!

The artist can choose the subject of the "conversation", how deeply he intends to approach and interpret it, give you his opinions / stories / analisys / parallel concepts / rationalization, etc. about it in one single   work of art. About ANY subject. That's truly beautiful isn't it? Works generally have several ways to be analyzed: technically, philosophically, historically, socially, but, the most important level in which they should, they must, ALWAYS be experienced, is THE DEEP, INDIVIDUAL LEVEL.

What kind of dreams or nightmares would a work of art suggest to your mind (conscious and subconscious)? How would this experience be useful to you in finding better ways to relate to everything and everyone around you? How would you see, portrayed in how you sense the artist thinks, an individual example of where someone can get if keeps this or that attitude? Would you learn with it? Would you apprehend something through what i could call 'the artistic sincerity'? When you KNOW that you are seeing a very deep and TRUE aspect of someone who is experiencing the very same reality as you! It's undoubtedly personal and peculiar, this 'vision'. But it's about reality and everyone should be interested in what reality is.

 
The work of art is a "window" to the much vaster vision / perception of Reality that the 'spiritually human' being called 'artist' has, which then is, metaphorically, a 'window' to understanding Reality Itself. No single work of art or artist can be a complete 'window' in itself, but by looking through enough 'windows' (and here i'm talking more about quality then quantity) we, as each and every person we all are, can have a continuously, eternally richer experience of Reality.

Thus i arrive to a very important point. The biggest responsibility of every true artist: sincerity. How can anyone give a true impression about life in general if doesn't talk honestly and deeply about his/her own life and experiences? His/her OWN, personal, unprecedented vision of life, perception of own existence.

I hope to have made myself clear here. What i mean is: if you don't want to say or admit what you know to be TRUE about yourself, then probably it will be very difficult for you to create something artistically important, because it will probably lack the most basic aspect of a relevant piece of art: ORIGINALITY.

Getting to the beginning point of this small manifest, we can see that lack of originality is a very apparent aspect of today's artistic production. It seems that everything that could ever be created already has been. But this is NOT true, simply because, i believe, you are a truly individual, never preceded, non copyable original person in the unlimitedly vast depths of your own Self.

THEN, ORIGINALITY IS NOT THE PROBLEM. TRUTHFULNESS IS.

By being true and honest to yourself first and then to everyone else, you can find ways to carry your life on which are honored and clean, you will work hard to provide to yourself and whoever depends on you, but you'll live a true life. 

Love as much as you can and do what you LOVE. Truly.

Your blood is yours. It comes from your individual, non copyable body even being this fact the same for everyone. Bleed your art just as you bleed your own life, minute by minute, drop by drop. Sometimes it means to embarrass, endanger or even almost disintegrate yourself, sometimes you are ashamed or sick of what you HAVE to talk about. But by being truthful you will find continuity. You will make the short time you have on this planet count for eternity!

We all bleed anyway.

qpdb_ Bleed [lo-fi SC edit] - track and artistic manifest

Immutable Change

A REASON WHY

Dostoievsky's "The Idiot" [PROMO] - free download

This is my first attempt at using real sound footage from space into a techno track. The sound I used can be found @:

http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/cassini/bow-shock/

from the site:

"The Cassini spacecraft crossed the bow shock of Saturn at 09 hr 45 min Universal Time on June 27, 2004, at a radial distance of 49.2 RS (Saturn Radii) from Saturn. The bow shock is a discontinuity that forms in the solar wind when the supersonic solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet, very similar to the shock wave that forms upstream of an aircraft moving at a supersonic speed. The color frequency-time spectrogram in the above illustration shows the electric field intensities detected by the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument. The bow shock crossing is indicated by the abrupt burst of electric field noise at the time marked by the arrow. The electric field noise is caused by electrical currents that flow in the shock."

qpdb

Idiosyncratic

Is it cold there? 
Get a warm hug from this bassline! =)

Produced in 2014

Ethan Fawkes - All Your Lies (qpdb Remix)

Out soon @ https://soundcloud.com/random-riot-productions and https://soundcloud.com/gong-recs

Dj Von_ Break the Rules [qpdb RMX]

Out soon @ soundcloud.com/ptrecordings

many thanx to https://soundcloud.com/cararamusic 4 the invite!


Carara_Broken Window [qpdb RMX]

A solid re-work on an older track, getting ready for release

chem.era [remastered]

Beyond

MIND DISPROGRAMMING TECHNO THERAPY

concept
Industrial Revolution was a prelude for a psychological mutation of mankind. Today, pre-made thought patterns create a new kind of mass human behavior while, in the background, technological evolution makes people more and more dependent on gadgets and energy and less in contact with our primary essence and nature. 
The influence of technology creates a growing alienation about our real position on earth [alienation of which contemporary EDM is a massive tool, being openly used to transform humanity into an army of morons], and urban environment generates deep stress in people's minds with its non-stop claim for attention. Everything is boringly noisy, disturbing and violent, while at the same time extremely intellectually unchalenging. Everyone's physical senses are overwhelmed while our subtle capacities to feel and think are completely undeveloped. 
The concept of this music is to suggest transcendence of this overwhelmed state of senses by showing SUBTLETY BEYOND NOISE, alluding to THE ORDER BEYOND up-to-date complete chaos.

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