Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned.
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Artist:Pseudo Cyborg
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Album:Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned. [1st Movement]
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Track:Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned.
On November 2nd of 2005, I began work on a track under the moniker Pseudo Cyborg.
At the time I was trying to finish an album that had been taking way too long to finish. I was held up mostly by technical difficulties. The lesson learned: don't tinker with your production machine.
Other lessons learned: how to recover data off of corrupted and burned drives.
At first this song seemed like it was going to be included as a last-minute addition to the album I had been working on. I quickly realized that this track was turning into a beast of its own. I had a tough decision to make. After careful thought, I decided to put the album on indefinite hold - the idea being a later release as a collection of unfinished material over the last 5 years.
"Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned" was the name I gave this new project. The idea: a 30+ minute piece, a revisit to my classical roots.
At the time, it had appeared to me that this was what Pseudo Cyborg was leading up to the whole time. What had been written before was more experimentation, me learning the tools I had been acquiring. This was, in a few words, the whole point.
On March 4th of 2006, I had a gig at The Hive Gallery. It wasn't much to speak of, really, but I had hoped to have the piece done by then. As was the style of the time, I'd suffered more computer crashes—one almost completely fatal. March 2nd-4th was a frenzy of work in attempt to finish. About an hour before my set the song was just above 10 minutes in length. I called it done and ran off to try to perform a song I had never practiced before on a tiny laptop-artist stage in the back of the gallery.
I was relieved when I got there to find that people wouldn't be paying attention to me.
That night I got home and thought some more. I had decided that I would continue with the project but instead would split into three movements. It made sense to me, just another throwback to classical. Rather than jumping back into work, I decided a break was in order.
Since then I've had plenty of ideas as to where to take "Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned", but I could never bring myself to committing to anything. There was so much going on: Craving The Seamstress recording and rehearsals, Erased Files was born, this crazy thing called life, et cetera.
On March 11th of 2007, I decided to kill Pseudo Cyborg as a project. I was slowly realizing that the idea of what I really wanted to do—have always wanted to do from the early 90s—was something much more, something that could encompass the entirety of my musical spectrum and tastes. I had actually reached this conclusion some time before but had kept from working on anything since it didn't have a name. The name of that particular project is Rapscallion, The Ne'er-Do-Well and it's currently a work-in-progress.
In any case, here is "Up To The Moon, Down To Tokyo: We Have A Trip Planned. [1st Movement]", unmastered, for your enjoyment.
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