Unreleased (2009)
Written, Performed, Programmed, Produced by Mike St-Jean

Copyright 2009

I wrote this for a multimedia piece being published in the near future. I’ll let you know when it’s up!

My first record as assistant engineer has been released on Solid State Records [Tooth & Nail]!

It’s pretty heavy.

If you like heavy, check ‘em out:

Becoming the Archetype | Dichotomy

Some might blame climate change; I’ll be optimistic and attribute it to geography. Rather than weather over time, this winter season I would like to focus on the change of people over time.

Let’s start small.

It is ten minutes after eleven in a small club nestled in the heart of a city’s art scene. A busy-haired pianist’s nimble fingers dance beautifully confused steps over and around horizontal musical stairs. Bassist and drummer groove with effortless synchronicity, dressing and lighting the dancing fingers.

The room is alive…

Read the rest at [Easel.ca]

I just brought up Facebook and was suddenly struck by the impact of what we have become.

Text, audio, video, interactive multimedia, immediate input, dynamic output, remote access. A universe of information sits in front of us at work, at home, in the car, on the street. The sheer magnitude of opportunity here is immense beyond anything we have yet to conceive.

Resources and efforts are unfocused, often wasted. One of these days we’re going to get a glimpse of the big picture, a grasp of the concepts.

For the moment, I sit here reflecting on how it all came to be. I don’t have much of a history that doesn’t include some form of box of circuitry and monitor- even public Internet. What started out as the paradigm shift to data-sharing has become the paradigm leap to life-sharing.

Today we go about things as if it’s never been any other way. Dangerously, we sometimes take for granted everything that has come to be- this fragile infrastructure of electrons and photons, wire and lights. It is important that we don’t forget our history, what has been, and appreciate how far we have come.

Sometimes I wonder how much longer will it be before the past is lost over the horizon.

This is what excites me about technology. The art.

Mmm, a new pad. As much as living in a studio was heaven, living in the city, amidst the buzz of it all, is a welcome change. I’m just settling in, getting my rig set up- drums, guitars, keys, AbletonLive & ProTools all within arms reach -and starting to network in a new way in a city that I’m feeling has an interesting kitchen worth of chefs.

That being said, I’m looking to make some noise and need all the jazz & electronics I can fit into a room; the wonders of that idea being manifest with as few as 3 people, if the resonance is just right.

You just have to look in the right places.