Robert Scott Pearson
A pleasant neo-classical music that uses modern art touches with melodic purpose. Some exotic synthesizer sounds and complex background arrangements.
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You've Got Love in Your Habit
You've Got Love in Your Habit is from the album Naked Index. It shows a fairly rare use of Rhythm machine, but one that was more common in some of my earlier work.
Ducks Coming to Me on a Pond
Ducks Coming to Me on a Pond gives one that feeling of being trusted and loved by animals. When I go to a local park the ducks come up to me. It's sad that feeding them is now frowned upon, it almost seems like they've become domesticated.
I am a composer/poet/author influenced by art movements such as the Romanticists, Transcendentalists, Dadaists, Surrealists, Bauhaus and an interest in psychology, spirituality and science. My music sounds sometimes like modern classical and sometimes like surreal electronic. I am the creator of ParaMind Brainstorming Software (www.paramind.net) and the Virtuism aesthetic theory. ParaMind is an editor that exhausts the interactions of words coming up with every idea possible. It's a fourteen year old company and we have versions in Windows, Mac and Linux. Virtuism started in 1984 as a type of trickster response to the negative and/or nihilistic art movements. It states that acts of virtue give the aesthetic experience, something which film depicts very well. I have published a book on it recently called "Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Virtue." I have authored two books on a fusion of psychology, philosophy and theology called "The Experience of Hallucinations in Religious Practice," and "Hyperreligiosity: Identifying and Overcoming Patterns of Religious Dysfunction." (both available on Amazon.com -- I go by R.S. Pearson). I see that mental illness often goes hand in hand with some spiritual beliefs, and if some types of religious people learned to lean on themselves more, better results would be obtained for all (except if that person is a criminal as is sometimes the case). Jesus said love God with your heart, soul and MIND -- the anti-intellectualism of Evangelicalism hurts us all by making people vulnerable to the most crass elements in society. White/black thinking gets nowhere -- people should not be afraid to embrace both perspectives of spirituality and positivism. No one is a pure liberal or pure conservative. The truth is usually in the middle. I do believe the Spirit guides us intimately and we become complete when it is in our lives. I'm anti-drug so any use of the word "hallucination" must be understood in that context. I see helping clear people from pitfalls along the religious path to be a major aim of my life, equal to my composing music and writing poetry. My website is atBand/artist history
I've had an interesting musical history here in Seattle. I was in an experimental band that was a precursor to one of the widely acknowledged first grunge bands named Feast. That early experimental band did have a belated release a work on Al Margolis' (If Bwana) label in 1987. My music shows this wide history, channelled in a modern classical way that at this time is only realized electronically. I hope that to change in the future and I'm working towards it.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes. I have played a solo concert at the Rainbow in Seattle, a famous nightclub.
Your musical influences
Classical music (Bach, Debussy, Satie, Rachmanioff, Medtner, Scarlatti, Rameau, Handel, Stravinsky, Partch, Glass, Vaughn Williams, Ginestera, Milhaud, Hovahness, Poulenc, Arvo Part, William Bolcom, -- and Stockhausen, Cage, Xenakis not always for their music but for their ideas). Progressive Rock (Yes, Kevin Ayers, Henry Cow, ELP, Magma, Eskaton, Early Genesis, Gong, King Crimson, Rick Wakeman, etc.), Colin Newman, Stereolab, Field Recording. lowercase sound. Frank Zappa. John Coltrane. Sun Ra. Joni Mitchell. Great fusion like Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Return to Forever. Certain female vocalists like early France Gall, Kahimi Karie, Chara, Lush, Shonen Knife, Ronnie Spector, and Francoise Hardy.What equipment do you use?
Yamaha, Roland, Mo-Fx unitsAnything else?
I believe in eco-psychology, which states by getting closer to nature and animals we become more whole, and I think this is one thing that can help stop global warming and get people off psychiatric medication. When people take interest in sustainable energy technology and the environment, they may be surprised how well they are rewarded.READ MORE
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