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The Postgoodism movement seeks to challenge the traditionally
prevalent notion that works of art -- literature, music, film, poetry,
theater, architecture -- should have redeeming qualities such as social
relevance, deeper meaning, innovative craftsmanship or beauty. Good is
so over.
The Artist
The Movement was founded by Cort Stratton, who works by day
as a graphics programmer at a large video game company in Los Angeles
that you've totally heard of. He has no business writing or recording
music, but was unable to find any existing legislature that expressly
prohibits him from doing so.
The Music
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NaSoAlMo 2010! Yeah, we did that. As usual, the age-old struggle ensues: to release the tracks in their half-baked, poorly-mixed form, or keep them in a vault until there's time* to clean them up?
* Hint: there isn't.
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| 01. | GMT | 3:00 |
| 02. | Imaging | 3:44 | |
| 03. | Yacht (2011/04/05) | 4:22 | download |
| 04. | Commute (2011/04/14) | 2:51 | download |
| 05. | Faith | 5:20 | |
| 06. | Soon | 4:02 | |
| 07. | For Mourning Me (BT cover/mashup) | 6:10 | |
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Postgoodism has successfully completed an album for NaSoAlMo 2008, tentatively titled
Second-System Effect. Tracks will be posted as I finish them,
if at all -- frankly, some of these puppies are beyond hope. You can also
stream and/or download the album FOR FREE from last.fm.
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| 01. | Solo | 5:44 |
| 02. | Subgenre Conventions Stipulate That This Song Must Have An Unwieldly And Self-Indulgent Title | 6:13 | sample |
| 03. | Grow Up | 5:06 |
| 04. | Whanganui (The Bridge To Nowhere) | 6:32 | download |
| 05. | Spiritual Successor | 6:19 | download |
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I wrote some music for my wife and I to dance to at our wedding. It's a simple little acoustic-guitar waltz that I don't think would sound out of place on a Yasunori Mitsuda soundtrack.
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Lesley's
Piano was Postgoodism's contribution to the 2007 edition of National Solo Album Month. It was
written, performed, recorded and produced entirely within the month of
November, 2007. This serves equally well as both an explanation of and
an apology for the results.
Listen to the album, or download all tracks FOR FREE, from
last.fm
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| 01. | Summit | 1:34 |
| 02. | Hush | 4:04 |
| 03. | Lost Boys | 4:16 |
| 04. | The Ocho | 3:25 |
| 05. | Knot | 2:48 |
| 06. | Our Dance | 4:04 |
| 07. | Try | 5:13 |
| 08. | Sweet Beyond | 4:02 |
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In December 2006, bearded wonder Jonathan Coulton staged a
contest to remix his song "Code Monkey". If you're a Coulton fan,
you may already be familiar with the winner (Kristen
Shirts) and her ukelelelicious cover. Kristen has gone on to a
whirlwind life of fame and fortune, performing on-stage with JoCo at
numerous concerts. I came in third, and all I got was a signed CD boxed
set.
Please note that the song linked to from the contest results
is wrong! When I submitted my entry, I had mistakenly muted a
number of the effect tracks (and a few entire instruments). The real,
authoratative version is the one below.
Listen to the album, or download all tracks FOR FREE, from
last.fm
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| | Code Monkey (DJ Shamelessly Self-Indulgent Remix) | 3:29 |
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