Time has not allowed for much creative work lately. Which means Songs For Friends is on hold while matters of business are given attention. It may seem funny that with the announcement of such a project also comes a simultaneous halt, but when opportunity knocks, it is wise to answer. That opportunity is the chance for acquisition. In order for my work to continue, for me to be able to bring myself to you in tangible form, I require objects I do not have. This is about to change. A moment, or rather a sleepless night, of clarity occurred, providing me with a strategy. Hear is my argument –

Hélas Techne is my chosen craft and multifaceted art form–a Joseph Drushal, incorporeal. Sound and music has been the primary driving force of this creation from the beginning; however, along with me, it has grown to incorporate a gamut of inspiring ideas and expressions. Since conceiving the name, a path has illuminated. What seemed simply to be a musical outfit looking to garner acclaim for its ingenuity is now being regarded, rather, as a chronicle of my life’s work in perpetual authorship, bearing sonance as the lead role.

My ultimate goal for this endeavor is the propagation of new and exciting ideas through a medium that brings color and harmony to people at a very personal level. To an effect that is very much empathic, I want to create for a world that is craving enlightenment, as I am no exception. And as one who is consistently looking for truth in all things, I intend to share the light of my experiences with whomever I come into contact.

A period of action and connection is quickly subsuming one of focused conceptualization. Now, in contrast, I believe my top priority is the exhibition and promotion of the material which that phase has confidently produced. More specifically, performance is the current objective. Ready at my command are a set of polished compositions and an equally admirable accompaniment of hands. I’ve laid the groundwork for a fascinating show.

However, a lack of the required tools inhibits every advance. Like a blacksmith without a hammer, he can only portray to you through approximations the splendor of his craft. With no tangible productions he cannot proclaim the merits of his enterprise. That is exactly where I stand. Beautifully honed compositions, which are still nonetheless approximations, wait to come to life.

The contributions I require are going toward modern technological devices which will essentially, and quite literally, put the power of an electronic orchestra at my fingertips. As it stands, my available resources represent the orchestra, with their scores mastered and fingers poised, I am their conductor, yet we have not once engaged. I suppose then my baton is still being fashioned. But here we are face to face, the band ready to strike. “Tonight we will be performing Hélas Techne’s Return to Now in G major. Just as soon as our assistants bring my baton.”

For seven years I have been driven by an earnestness to make real that which I have envisioned, learning through experience and always accepting the next challenge. Keen with instinct and a natural talent for insight through disassembly, I have become of a unique breed of techno-wizards; an alchemist for the information age, balancing at that event horizon between eras.

There are many who dabble in this realm and settle for easy gratification but few who are willing to nurture the diligence that creates masters. They tinker for instant marketability and destine themselves for brief memorability. There is an entire generation eager for new leadership, eyes fixed on whoever will step up.

My desire to fill the void, to compensate for an absence of what I wish to see, is resolute. I aspire to exemplify a worthiness, not exclusory but universal, accessible to any who truly listen.

Finally putting my thoughts into order like this feels very empowering. A passage is about to open and I know exactly how to enter. What lies ahead is still greatly a mystery, though, but only where facts are concerned. I would not be so confident if I was not intimately aware of the potentialities this resolve indicates.

I swear I will stop talking like a Vulcan soon. Logic has dominated my thoughts for the last few weeks. The Sun is in Gemini after all.

I will be posting Endeavor and Ever soon. It is a happy and glamorous song that should bring with it a little color.