Color of a Mirror is my cyberpunk novel centered around a musician who wants to be a rockstar. Written, designed, and published by me, it’s not bombastic or action-heavy, but rather is driven by character and personal, human issues. It gets into ideas of the subconscious and the lies we tell ourselves. If you like the dark futures of William Gibson, I think you’ll find something to like in this book.
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I love different forms of communication, anything really that codes words behind beautiful design rather than actual letters. The above design motif is on the cover of the forthcoming deluxe hardcover novel, and is a stylized version of the American braille for “Color of a Mirror” (beginning at bottom left).
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Tomorrow is Cyber Monday. This is everything I’ve ever wanted a cerebral, cyberpunk novel to be, so what better day to check it out than tomorrow!
Available exclusively from my website, each copy will come signed by me, and will start shipping on or around Dec. 1.
(And if you want a taste of this world, check out the cinematic dark ambient soundtrack of the same name, now streaming on Spotify and other streaming platforms!)
PLEASE DONATE. ALL MONEY WILL GO TOWARD PHYSICAL COPIES OF MUSIC AND UPGRADING THE BLOG FOR FUTURE SUBSCRIBER SERVICE. ALL LINKS ABOVE WILL RECEIVE THI FUNDING.
Today is BANDCAMP FRIDAY, so I'm (re)releasing ONEIRIC HARDWARE by WERNECK - WRETCHMOND. https://kekw.bandcamp.com/album/oneiric-hardware
An album of manipulated field-recordings sourced from server-arrays, hard-drives and peripherals from Belo Horizonte, Brasil and Yeovil, Somerset. The sound of machines dreaming.
Released as a Ltd CDr in 2009 on 19f3 Records ("The world's greatest Non-Boutique Yeovil-based Nano-label").
This d/l Includes a bonus 9th track not on the original CD and only ever released as a ltd floppy-disk edition of one. No, really.
From the original 19f3 Press Release:
"A curious fusion of the mechanistic and the organic: a series of REM-sleep sirensongs built from whirring servos, damaged cpus and haunted read-write heads. Ghost-Industrial Music.
"Sound-files rub up against each other to create accidental textures, rhythms, harmonics and voices. A chance meeting on a PC World Customer Service Desk of a zip-drive and a storage drum. REM Vs. RAM.
"File under: ferromagnetic nightmares, head crashes, somnambulant automata, data archaeology, disaster recovery,
nocturnal back-ups, Music for PS/2 Ports."
A new track being played on #somafm #darkzome #somafmdarkzone #darkambient #darkambientmusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CqHbtCdu_c0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Yes please! Repost from @patricksouthpaw • Quick update! So, life has been pretty busy for me as of late. My family and I are in the process of moving into our new home & between that and work, my free time is very limited. Things will settle down soon though and I will be back creating shitty cellphone videos for your listening/viewing enjoyment. I also have a couple exciting things (at least for me) coming down the pipeline for later this year, so I’ll definitely be sharing here once they are ready. Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well! Here’s a shameless pedalboard shot just because. #templeaudio #korg #deathbyaudio #wilsoneffects #jptrfx #highwindamplification #diezelamplification #collisiondevices #fairfieldcircuitry #gamechangeraudio #cascadeeffects #simpleswitchfx #ebsflats #mogami #shoegaze #doomgaze #postmetal #ambientmusic #darkambientmusic #pedalboardsofactualdoom #stompboxtalkofficial #pedalhaven #rigshare #gearybusey #knowyourtone https://www.instagram.com/p/CosNjZsujAZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
What a month. Ups and downs and everything in between. But yes, you read that right. The Kickstarter for my cyberpunk novel and dark ambient soundtrack is FULLY FUNDED!
I can’t wait to get the final stages of this project underway in the next months, and for everyone to get the chance to read this book!
For anyone who may still want to join in, there are still 30 hours left! And if you back now, it’s a sure thing—you’re getting this novel! And at the same time, supporting an independent publishing and music project that doesn’t fit in the normal bounds.
Check out the link below, and who knows, maybe if enough people jump on board, we’ll unlock the first of those stretch goals!