"The Silence"
Michigan and New Jersey, USA
Original Concept:
In some of the Great Filters that may resolve Fermi's Paradox and reveal the chasms between worlds, we find glimpses of the dark fabric walls between souls.
Artist Post-Game:
This project's concept started out kinda cool, and got even more interesting as we went. We were pretty curious to see where it would go, especially on the songwriting side, where Joe was experimenting with a new, very "serial" approach of writing music to completed lyrics with the goal of making few or no edits whatsoever. Due to some outside-of-music setbacks early in the month, however, both artists lost a lot of schedule. Not wanting to hamstring the concept, they decided to table the project for possible later completion.
The one product that did come out of the effort, however, was a doozy. Earl's first piece for the album, "We Hate You", was deliberately written to be rendered as a sarcastically upbeat and over-accessible tune, standing in contrast to what was otherwise expected to be a generally weird and depressing record. Joe ran with this, resulting in an almost old-school rock'n'roll single that he described as "Jerry Lee Lewis and Warren Zevon get in a barfight and share busted-up drinks afterward". While we can't call one song (no matter how hilarious) a "win" by our interpretation of the challenge rules, the process was still enjoyable and got some wheels turning. We're taking a laid-back approach to deciding if we want to finish the record someday, or just leave it as one of those ideas that will always sound cooler than we actually could've made it. :)