Short Summary
Hello,
my name is Leonardo, among other things I am a musician, a poet and a music lover. I have been working with new ideas on how to bring closer, listeners and musicians, and how this can trigger further creativity. In the past i have been involved in several projects, two music labels (FeedbackLoop Label and Heart and Soul publishers) in which I have been pushing the boundaries of music, poetry and images so they can lead listeners to find new meanings and new dreams within this abstract art forms. I have been particularly involved also on a project called Opaque Glitter where I made one and half hours of music that I shared to listeners and let them decide the tracks that would end up in my album.
This time around I came up with this new idea that I call MyMemoryCollective and I again want your active participation on the creation of my next album. Bear with me and read the next paragraphs, hope you find it as exciting as I do:
Everybody has memories, fragments imprinted that recur occasionally like a burst of nostalgia or like passionate fire explosions, and they might appear to the world as a smile or an irrational fear. But the truth is most of this cannot be pinpointed to an exact scene, an exact date. And that is I think irrelevant, as what counts is not the specificities of what passed but its manifestations in the present.
Some of these moments are captured in a snapshot, a film, or a replicated recipe. But what underlie them is the sense of the inexplicable background, a detail, a set of fragments under the surface, lost in the vividness of colors, or the sweetness of spices.
The favorite toy or the grandmother’s special dessert, an open mouth with a fly inside or the kiss of ones lips. With this set in mind I decided to start this new project that I call “My memory collective”.
The underlying concept will be the exploration of memories and the details that make them special, unspoken words, traces of sounds, unframed objects. I’ll be making 8 tracks over the course of one year, and each one will be showcased for a limited timeframe, so that they will only stay subliminal in your memories.
But I would also like to have your feedback. I would like to know what memories were triggered in you. Based on that, I’ll refine the track to tailor it in a way that it will be my memory intertwining with yours, to create a new memory that I’ll share exclusively with you. Your feedback can be a video, a set of images, a poem, a set of sounds, a text.
In the end I’ll pick up the best pieces made and will release a vinyl to immortalize them, until this medium is forever lost in time.
What I Need & What You Get
I am asking your support because I think this project is worth being released in the vinyl format that best symbolizes memories and fragments.
For that, I will need your help on getting the needed funds to be able to ask for proper mastering and replication of 250 LP copies. Roughly this will breakdown in the following costs:
- Mastering: 400$
- Vinyl pressing: 1500$
- Vinyl sleeves: 450$
- Other costs: 300$ (shipping material, printing, web services)
What you will get if you help me fund this project:
- Perk $5: You will have access to each work in progress track for a full week, instead of the regular 1-2 days teaser preview and your name in the thank you section.
- Perk $10: The perk above plus a digital copy of the album.
- Perk $15: The perk above plus a CDr.
- Perk $25: The perk above plus a copy in vinyl.
- Perk $30 All perks above plus your contribution to one of the tracks by working with me, with your ideas on one of the 8 tracks and the exclusivity on that particular worked track (unless it makes the final cut to the vinyl).
- Perk $100: All perks above plus an exclusive track for each of the 8 tracks being produced and your name in the credits of the album.
Finally, I decided also that this project is in a fixed funding system, which means that I will only receive your support if my $2000 goal is achieved or overcome.
Other Ways You Can Help
If you cannot help funding you can still help me spread the word. So if you be so kind and share this I would be thankfull. And of course if you want get in touch with me so I can send you news when the project starts, so you can keep up with the work in progress tracks.