Music always played a disproportionately large role in my artistic life, even though I never did create any music professionally. It has served both as a direct reference and as a parallel in which I have been able to mirror my pictorial art. I have always had many musicians and composers as friends and the discussions has influenced me a lot.
As Katharsisdrill I have published a few musical pieces , because when I came up with the idea of making an outlet for the art I wouldn't be able to use under my own name one of the founding concepts was that no quality scruples should stand in the way of me creating. Originally I simply thought of it as a wastebasket - and that suddenly gave me a lot of freedom from the whole *brand' thing. Now it has become a brand of its own I guess, but with a lot more creational freedom. It has become a place where I work in less "fine" genres, but I plan to also let that go when I get a project that goes fine art. Doesn't really care about all that any more :)
So maybe I will produce a black metal album or do some Katharsisdrill string quartets :)
Is there anything you can't do?! Next you'll tell me you play the upright bass...
Why can't you use your own name?
That second paragraph is interesting. So by abandoning the idea that art has to be of "quality," determined by outside understandings of worth not your own, your art was elevated? Is that what you mean?
I never played much string instruments actually :) A little bit of guitar and electric bass, but I am very envious of people who do. Especially violin, viola and cello. My eldest daughter plays the violin.
As for the whole concept of the project it sort of evolved from the original trash can idea, and I had to realise that my perfectionism never would let me do really bad things (I even removed things I already published because I didn't like them after a while). To stop having an internal censorship (and it did start as an internal thing) didn't really make things bad - on the contrary actually. It was probably just me throwing the burden of my ego away. The whole "brand" thing. And it was also nice to use a pseudonym, probably for the same reason. It was like starting anew, and I always had a dream of running away (not from my family and friends, but from society).
I never felt that the distinction between fine arts and less fine art was of any interest, so it wasn't the elevation of art that played a role. I enjoy a lot of things that are not sophisticated or decent or sensible or productive. Like everyone else. Some things have a liveliness to them, even quiet things, and that sort of thing attracts me - can be anything from silly Black Sabbath Lyric, pornography, punk music, anything really.