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Big John
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  • Fort Wort, TX
  • United States
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I am...
a Musician
I am an "Other".....
An observer, a fixer,a helper, an understander, a listener.
Would you present your work at a CreativeSquat Pecha Kucha event?
Not quite yet.
About Me:
I've got a grave yard shift career so music can be my day job!
-No serious people allowed!
Website:
http://www.myspace.com/bigjohnsax

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Noise in 360 degrees...

I would kill for a pair of surround sound head phones. It would be so cool to have a song where dispersant elements swirl around my listener. Moving in a 3 dimensional space. Where an angelic voice could playfully jump around an imaginary dais or where heavy metal power chords could come running from all sides and meet up in an explosive crescendo top dead center of someones' brain.

...It'll happen but for now I guess I'll be happy using what I've got. It's more than I had when I started.

Peac… Continue

Posted on July 29, 2008 at 10:33pm —

Big John

That moment...

You know when you're in between projects and you walk into your space with a blank slate. You look at all your tools and all your equipment and your clean workroom and go Hmm. Just standing there enjoying the moment with thousands of half formed thoughts swirling in your head. Waiting for one thought to assemble itself into the idea that will take you on your next journey into a new place. That's where I'm at now.

I think it's more formerly know as writers block.

J

Posted on July 24, 2008 at 7:53am —

Big John

Accidental insperation...

Some times you just stick your foot in your mouth and don't stop until you taste underwear.

I met a myspace person and exchanged an email where I was giving what I though was good advice. About recording. Only it turns out that this person was a practicing minimalist. It was the audio equivalent of telling Picasso that he'd be pretty good if he got some lessons!

So apologies made and humble pie eaten...

I want to try putting away my mixers and e.q.s and everything else but just a mic and see… Continue

Posted on July 17, 2008 at 12:13am —

Big John

Riders on the range... Imagine this one!

I need a metal worker, a still life photo meister and a couple of flexible people...

This Idea is for a combo performance art/photo piece.

We'd get some of those yogi chairs made up. The ones that stick in the ground and make it look like the person sitting is holding themselves up by one arm.

We'd then dress up the flexible people in Australian dusters sun glasses and cowboy hats and sit them in the yogi chairs (lotus style) positioned in a geometric pattern...In hi foot traffic places. (Our… Continue

Posted on July 12, 2008 at 1:41am —

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At 11:40pm on July 13, 2008, Lorynn said…
Hey :) I posted a song. Rock on.
At 10:58am on July 12, 2008, Cody Hooper said…
right on. Thanks.
At 8:00pm on July 8, 2008, Dean said…
Wow. Big John you really rock...I mean rock hard. Let me know when you're free to write the ballad of CreativeSquat....or Dean Odle...lol
At 4:08pm on July 8, 2008, Big John said…
If you see the devil at the cross roads...tell him he can have his horns back AFTER he beats me!
 
 

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