On Tempted and Future Excess
Within the next 12 hours or so the rest of Tempted and Future Excess will go live. Final touches were made, listening tests on multiple auditory devices completed, and artwork was finished.
The EP/single/mind-numbing-multimovement-piece is more than just a rewrite-remastering, however. It is a reliving of history. Mental anguish replayed, live.
Social Engine's conception surrounds thought, interaction, and reaction. Nearly all instrumental works are to be interpreted as internal dialog. Tempted is no different.
Tempted's entire theme is internal struggle. The fight against what can basically be summarized as human nature; the inherit evil of us all. While the original Tempted dealt with a specific incarnation of personal evil, the re-write is more abstract in certain ways, even though it draws from my life at this current point in time. A life I'd rather not live, personally, but if I must, I will make as much use of it as possible.
The Future pieces (1 and 2) are conclusions to Tempted, based on broad choices made in the struggle against human nature. They are supposed to be in stark contrast to eachother - polar opposites. Whether to be interpreted as success or failure is left up to the listener, though casual music fans can and certainly should feel welcome to draw the obvious conclusion based on style, dynamics, and instrumentation.
One thing I decided to come into Tempted with, in this project, was the belief that a singular, finalized conclusion could never be written. My reasoning for that is because the original conception (based on my personal struggles) never will be resolved, nor will any one persons' (or even humanitys', as a whole).
Tempted isn't about completion. It isn't about understanding evil, sin, or whatever label you provide. It is about survival.
-WFL
The EP/single/mind-numbing-multimovement-piece is more than just a rewrite-remastering, however. It is a reliving of history. Mental anguish replayed, live.
Social Engine's conception surrounds thought, interaction, and reaction. Nearly all instrumental works are to be interpreted as internal dialog. Tempted is no different.
Tempted's entire theme is internal struggle. The fight against what can basically be summarized as human nature; the inherit evil of us all. While the original Tempted dealt with a specific incarnation of personal evil, the re-write is more abstract in certain ways, even though it draws from my life at this current point in time. A life I'd rather not live, personally, but if I must, I will make as much use of it as possible.
The Future pieces (1 and 2) are conclusions to Tempted, based on broad choices made in the struggle against human nature. They are supposed to be in stark contrast to eachother - polar opposites. Whether to be interpreted as success or failure is left up to the listener, though casual music fans can and certainly should feel welcome to draw the obvious conclusion based on style, dynamics, and instrumentation.
One thing I decided to come into Tempted with, in this project, was the belief that a singular, finalized conclusion could never be written. My reasoning for that is because the original conception (based on my personal struggles) never will be resolved, nor will any one persons' (or even humanitys', as a whole).
Tempted isn't about completion. It isn't about understanding evil, sin, or whatever label you provide. It is about survival.
-WFL
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