This is a piece of music that for me now has been emptied of all meaning. It is probably liminal. It is maybe nothing. It has become something. It was made from very little, actually, a piano improvisation recorded onto a phone, and from a phone recorded through a mic into a computer, and then edited. Everything but the drums have been taken from this 1 minute piano improvisation. I know when I wrote it, over a year ago, it was a very meaningful piece of music. Now, it means nothing. Here it is.

Shock and Other Beginnings

This piece of music attempts to capture the sound of something as it occurs in your head, at that moment of inspiration, before it becomes actualised into a composed work. When in your head, and not committed to full existence in the created piece, the music and sounds are open in a way that gets lost as it becomes created into something tangible for listeners. This piece of music thus resists the temptation to become what it is, teetering constantly on the edge of existence and nothingness. It is thus written from the void, and tries to maintain itself within this.

After I wrote this piece of music, and had already named it, I came across this piece (pictured) by the incredible Bearz. We are spirit twins.

Gregory David Jackson

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