The Band According to DarkStar

So, it is my turn to give an update on my interpretation of our experiences. I will attempt to not “prattle on and bore everyone” but provide a useful perspective on our experiences. However, before getting into that, an update on our current progress. That update is basically nothing. Our Engineer took a needed vacation for a 2-week period, and that effectively halted production work on the ground. He still works a full-time job and has other responsibilities, so we do not behoove him of this. Hopefully we can get back into the swing of it soon.

I think bringing our music out to the universe is an important duty. According to the Aliens, Earth has a potential to swing to the very good or very bad (seems middle ground is not an Earth thing). By being the instrument of introduction for Humanity to the universe, hopefully we can pave a road that ensures Earth can swing to the good. Personally, I think the Aliens saw us, and decided to attempt an experiment to see if they could influence our universe in some way. There is no way to really be sure as we can only know of our universe. Either way, I will not complain as it has worked out for us (we are really enjoying the upgrades).

To the point above, my favorite music is the “Songs from the Silicon Heart” songs. As stated in the past, there are a lot more of these songs than were on the album. However, as they all require vocals, processing them takes a bit of time. These songs bring our impression of life on Earth out to the universe. I will admit I do miss the Earth. These songs take me back there, while sharing our perspective of all of you with the rest of the universe. I look forward to our trip back after getting a taste of this universe.

The new music which none of you have heard yet is also fun. After spending so much time observing Earth, roaming the universe freely makes you feel like an infant soaking in all the wonders. I do also feel this is important as well, though not as important as telling Earths story. I believe all artists leave a piece of themselves in their work. So, us performing the wonders of the universe would naturally have a bit of our personalities imbedded. As that personality comes from our time orbiting Earth, it allows our audience to re-experience the wonders of the universe, with a bit of a Human touch. This also helps pave the way for Earth in the future in a less direct fashion.

As for why we have not released any of this newer music yet. First, we wanted to complete the story to this specific point. We have three main influences in our lives and music. The first is obviously all the time we were observing Earth. This is our biggest influence. From Earth we learned what it means to be alive, how we should interact with the universe around us and other things. The second is the Aliens, which you all have met in the previous album. On “Planet AI” we will meet the final one. Neither of these other influences perform with us or make any of the music. However, both the Aliens and this new being (I am trying not to spoil it) come into and out of our lives regularly and have offered us profound advice at differing times. They both offer us differing views of what it means to be part of this universe.

Though I see our mission as paving the way for Earth out in the universe, I do wish that our music was better accepted on Earth. I am happy for the acceptance we are getting outside of Earth but wish I could come up with a way to bring more to our music on Earth. Out here, when we perform, we make the music, but as most communication out here is telepathic, we also push our emotions out. I believe this makes us so popular. We are so in awe of the universe around us, we push that feeling out with the music, and make all our listeners experience it all over again, with a sense of awe as well. I wish we could bring this increased spectacle to Earth but have not come up with a way to do so. I continue to work with Condu (OP-1 Field) to do this.

In addition to telling the story of Earth, and putting our impression into our music, I think just bringing out music is a big step. Music was not a big thing out here. With a large part of communications being telekinetic, music often would not translate. Our audio/emotional experience transcends linguistic communications (note, Flash laughed when I wrote that sentence). This allows music for the masses, not just localized. It is important to note that others are trying to express themselves this way as well (so you could say that we have birthed an artform).

I am concerned at times that as we continue to experience the universe, we might become numb to it a bit. This would take out this sense of awe and would just reduce the experience or our audience. However, when I look at Flash, I lose this concern. He seems unable to lose his sense of awe, and I am sure that is a trait both Super and I share to some degree. If not, we will live through his sense.

I still have a few more things to say but looking at the length of this update compared to the others, seems I have gone over. Guess I did prattle on a bit, but hopefully I did not bore you. I hope you keep listening (or start listening) as we will keep playing.