the link to the 10/2013 archive of the dtk blog is up.

the big one is next, but i need to eat, first.

https://books.noisetrade.com/j/102013-deathtokoalas

unfortunately, noise trade did not work out as a hosting solution, and i never got a clear answer as to why. but, i decided in the end that the site was full of ads and unworkable, anyways.

the readable version of the october, 2013 archive for this blog is now available as a standalone in the music journal package at bandcamp:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/10-2013-music-journal

...or as a component in the half year archive at smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1026620

...or as a component in the first reconstruction phase archive, available in the following places:
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/jessica-murray/full-first-reconstruction-phase-deathtokoalas-blog/ebook/product-zrgr94.html
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DbwOVdqWt73rHNzWJWgEfduzREogExX/view

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

ipsos is not a polling firm, it's a propaganda arm of the conservative party.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

the fourth entry in the music journal series, which is the month of october, 2013 and is 99 pages long. i am not going to summarize the story, but it is available on the web over here: musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.com/2013/10/.

this is a compilation of written correspondences that occurred around me over october, 2013. it includes facebook posts, messenger chats and emails with friends and family members, in an attempt to tell the story of how i set my studio back up in windsor after relocating from ottawa and republished my first demo, from 1996. the contents of this download are the dummy track, a word doc file and a pdf file, both written in a more readable, chronological ordering. i've also added the respective files for my other three blogs, for general interest, as well as 98 separate txt documents (essays, notes, scripts and web pages) that are referenced in the journal.

the events documented in this journal occurred in october, 2013 and were compiled into a narrative in several stages over the years 2014-2019. journal completed on sept 10, 2019. released and finalized in doc and pdf format on sept 28, 2019. doc201310.

credits

released November 1, 2013

j - editing, participant

esa (aka shelly teagan) - participant
mom - participant
the oldest aunt's wife - participant
the initial landlord - participant
teksavvy technical support - participant
cbsa technical support - participant

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/10-2013-music-journal

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

i honestly never intended to make it to 40, so i never planned my life around things i'd do at 40. i didn't even plan to make it to 30, really.

i don't want to romanticize death, because i'm not like that - i understand that we only get one chance, and once you turn off the electricity, that's it. logic is pretty ruthless here; you want to avoid that, as long as you can. right?

well, if you only plan around completing a certain set number of things, existence might not seem worthwhile any more.

barring some catastrophe, it does look like i'm going to make it there, and then what? well, i'm not going to change my outlook on life. i'm not going to discover goals i never had.

i need to finish my art, and i have quite a bit of it left, and we'll see what happens after that.

i'm not sure i'll ever feel as though my work is truly complete, but i don't think i'll last very much longer if i ever do. i don't think i'll prolong it....

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

here's the noise trade smashwords link to the october, 2013 archive of the music blog, in readable format

https://books.noiseTrade.com/j/102013-music-journal
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1026608

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

since aaron wherry has outed himself as a liberal stooge, it's easy to put two and two together here and deduce that the liberals are about to start scare mongering about the bloc, which, as it happens to be, is another harperism.

the socialists and the separatists...coalition...hey, can trudeau prorogue before the throne speech? maybe he can call boris up and ask him if he has any tips.

the bloc does not want to join a coalition government, and will not agree to prop up the government. how do i know that? because they're the bloc, and they don't want to interfere with canadian politics. all duceppe promised to do last time was vote for the budget, and then his party got destroyed because of it; even that minimal of a commitment rendered them pointless in the minds of quebeckers. they're not there to gain power, they're there to be a pain in the ass. if wherry has a point, it might be that it might work; if you want to be afraid of something, it would be a hung parliament and the need to go back to the polls.

but, there's no need to fear because i'll tell you what will happen - the liberals and conservatives will prop each other up, just like they did in the 00s. they are, after all, the parties that are most similar to each other.

so, conservative minority? don't worry - the liberals will vote for the budget. and, that's a loop they can't get out of, because they can't gain momentum when they're propping the conservatives up. but, they'll do it, you can count on it.

and, a liberal minority? the conservatives will wait, and pull the plug when it's convenient. right now, that might not happen for a while...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-may-green-ndp-minority-2019-election-1.5298332

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

the mood that i'm projecting here may be more widespread than the pundits want to accept.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

i think people are just fed up and that the greens are in the right place at the right time to benefit from it.

great.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

yeah, the polls are getting weird - mainstreet has the greens splitting the vote in rural ontario, which could help the liberals in weird places, and nanos has them nearly catching the ndp, nationally, finally - albeit mostly at the expense of the liberals.

fluctuations and whatnot. i'm not being alarmist.

but this isn't out of nowhere, and it's about that time in the cycle for the numbers to start moving.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

something you're going to notice as i move past period 3 and into period 4 is that the abstraction of the music is going to increase dramatically, to the point that you might not even call it music anymore. listen to the crash, for example. any music that i create in the future, past the end point in 2011, is going to be something like that - to the left of leftfield electronic noise, and with an audience that won't exist until i'm dead.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

if you want new and up-to-date and hip and fashionable, you probably should have tuned out a long time ago.

i've been anti-cool from day one. and, while i don't like retro much myself, i'd guess you do.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

i'm not going to keep doing this into my 50s.

i will cut myself off.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

no, listen.

musicians tend to get boring around the age of 30.

i'm lucky that i have a big pile of unfinished music that i wrote before i turned 30, and that i can spend my 30s cleaning up.

but, at my age, i'm largely past my creative cycle, and i'm not going to deny it, and pretend otherwise.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

if you're waiting for the concept record about trump, it's not happening.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

but, when am i going to post new songs?

i'm probably not going to.

i'm probably going to end the discography in 2011, with the caveat that there will be a few leftover pieces.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

so, i clearly got distracted pretty badly, but, again, that's hardly unproductive - i just published three releases.

i'm still alert, and think i can get a good move on what's left.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

inri097

last one for the night.

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inri086?

these are actually rock songs, albeit weird ones. i was shopping them around in the mid-00s, and nobody bit. we'll have a compilation demo up here as i found it, but i'm also going to need to actually finish them up.

i didn't want this to be a studio project, but what do you want me to tell you? i can't find anybody to jam with...and i've been looking for twenty years....

the cd-r from 2005 that i have consists of the first eight tracks, and i'm going to publish it that way, as is. i was considering adding a ninth track that i cut at some point, but decided against it - this will come up elsewhere. there is also a tenth demo in this collection that was dismantled into different tracks, and will eventually come up as a part of a similar collection dated to mid-2004.

there are two different types of tracks in this collection. some of these tracks will be worked into the trivial group or proverbs symphonies, whereas others will need to be completed as standalones in the 2004-2005 space, depending on where i think they best fit.

see, i'm tempted to label this proverbs, but don't actually want to. the tracks that weren't put aside for it don't have vocals. but, they weren't supposed to be trivial group, they were supposed to be a band project. i was using the pseudonym "whore to culture" for a little bit, but, in hindsight, i don't really like it - and i never finished anything under the label. i think that was mostly xenophanes, which is definitely trivial group, now.

on the other hand, were any of the trivial group tracks intended to be studio projects? no...they just all ended up that way...so that's less a difference and more a commonality...

and, are these tracks that different than trivial group? not in the form they're in. if i were to just play the trivial group tracks on guitar, they'd be sort of similar, wouldn't they?

in fact, i could conceivably expand this collection by isolating some of the other guitar tracks in the other trivial group stuff, but i don't want to do that, either. i mean, i could take the style way back - this isn't my first demonstration of impressionist jazz punk. i may consider creating a second companion disc that just has the guitar parts from all of the trivial group material, but i want to leave this specific disc exactly as it is, which is exactly as i found it.

these specific tracks were written at various points between 2003-2005 and performed via a line-in directly into my soundcard, with no effects, in my apartment on prince of wales in ottawa on august 21, 2005. a handful of cds were then burned, and left out randomly at various places around town where i hoped a drummer would find them. ripped back to digital on april 12, 2014. uploaded and published without further modification on sept 19, 2019. as always, please use headphones.

cover art by sarah. 

credits

released August 21, 2005

j - guitar 

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/impressionist-jazz-punk

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

i've also put this ep up for download.

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the very beginning of a long paused project built around the idea of converting ratios directly into music using matlab.

i'm going to leave this as a one-track single dated to november, 2004 and finish the idea, for release in....2020?

this was created for the requirements of math 4822, a course on wavelet theory, at carleton university in the fall semester of 2004. programmed entirely in matlab over a weekend in nov, 2004. uploaded and published without further modification on sept 19, 2019. as always, please use headphones.

credits

released November 30, 2004

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/the-spontaneous-combustion-of-leonardo-pisano

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

inri079

so, we'll need to re-publish this as physical media when the time comes, but the music is at least finished, so why not acknowledge as much and allow for download?

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an art show demo, uploaded as is. inri078.

it's not a complex story - sarah wanted to have a showing of some of her paintings in her apartment, so she asked me to write some music for it. i just took some of the things i was working on and put them together.

this would eventually become the core of the next symphony.

initially written and recorded over the second half of 2003 and the very beginning of 2004. compiled on january 23, 2004. ripped from cd-r on april 11, 2014. finally uploaded and published without further modification on sept 18, 2019. as always, please use headphones.

credits

released January 23, 2004

j - all sound

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/art-show-demo

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.

no, i'm not attacking greta thunberg. i'll pick on people my own size.

what i'm doing is ridiculing the situation.

this is another one of those situations where there's no use in explaining myself further, you're able to follow what i've written or you're not. but, if i'm attacking anything, it's you.

the liberals are supposed to do better than this.