Looking for a musical partner

Is anyone interested in working on an abstract/experimental music project with me?

If you're interested I will send over some song drafts - they're all skin and bone at the moment so I wont be posting them for public consumption lol. Wait for the flesh to come.

I generate songs quite easily, but I find it hard to commit to an idea and see it through. Lately I've had a rush of inspiration, but I haven't seen the fruit of that yet.

I make a really wide range of stuff. At the moment it's just me on my guitar. I draw on latin American music, folk, jazz and left-field rock and pop styles. The latin stuff is usually rhythmic inflection.My harmonies draw on a lot of hard bop stuff and modal stuff. The melodies tend to get fairly spun out too, which is where the folk comes in.

I try (with varying degrees of success) to make music that glorifies God architecturally and intentionally. Cathedrals are designed to charge the senses. A mediaeval peasant seeing a cathedral would have been brought to their knees from the sheer scale and grandeur. We can't possibly appreciate that today. I feel that we are probably emotionally stunted in comparison to our forbears. At the same time, a cathedral is a space designed for worship and praise.

For me the structure and internal design of a song glorify God just as much as the heart and soul that goes into the worship itself. This is something that was appreciated in Mediaeval/Rennaissance times. I feel like Coltrane had a hold of this too. BTW Love Supreme is , for me, the ultimate in terms of music making

I'm looking for someone who shares the same approach to making as I do. This is really essential. I really want to find someone who has a theology of art making. I don't mean that you need to have a thesis and a whole line of eloquence on the topic. I just want to find someone who has ideas about this sort of thing.

Sorry if I come off as 'full of it' - I've tried to work with people who don't share this, and it never seems to work.

Aia Valles said:

First of all I don't have any idea about theology of art making, but I'm into music, playing a guitar, singing and composing ( which I've not finished)

And I honestly see myself through you, that goal to glorify God with music and For His people to feel deep in their hearts that God love's them. People will gonna have a fresh encounter with Jesus once they'll hear it.

Keep Singing for God!!

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Hi Aia and welcome Yes absolutely, I really want to see people experience and encounter something new and fresh.