Author: Seth Werkheiser

I tend to name my music files after notable events of the day, and most notable yesterday was purchasing my first coffee grinder. So as I waited for my French press to brew, I pulled out my iPad and Procreate and drew this little boom box, animated, and made it the theme for today’s loop.

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“always wild when you stumble onto the parallel world on here of some blue check tweeting “So excited to be able to say I’m starting as Chief Puppy Kicker at Facebook’s new Pain and Suffering Division!” an every other blue check on here replying “OMG they’re so lucky to have you,” @metaltxt

“You never know who is watching, so just keep doing it for you and when they hit you up, you’ll be ready,” @aundrelarrow

“anarchists heroically fought and died for the five day workweek so you could spend the two day weekend getting caught up on email,” @computerfact

Weekends are for singing over loops. Some synth, some reverb, and let it fly. The lyrics and melody were pretty spontaneous (there’s three tracks of vocals), and they made me laugh, so that’s what counts.

Fun experiment in recent weeks is not posting my weekend loops to social media. It’s a nice break from making a few social media assets, but also a nice exercise in the belief that if you make a thing people like, they’ll seek it out. Saving some of the best stuff for weekend posting is the ticket, then. Thanks for reading.

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Perhaps I’ll just keep making these videos as weird as I can until someone emails me and asks if I’m okay.

If you like these mysterious “secret” videos I’ve made (I made three so far), check out my SETH ATOM site and sign up for the email list to be notified of very important secret news as it develops.

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“A gentle reminder that you are allowed to outgrow versions of yourself that no longer serve you. Its not personal towards anyone. Keep evolving,” @lyssamarielowe

“What’s it for?”

Good question posed by a good friend. You don’t go skiing so you can win an Olypimic downhill event. You’re just fucking skiing.

This is for someone who wants to make music but doesn’t know where to start. This starts the conversation. This gives you permission, just like listening to Primus back in 1991 gave me permission to set out and do weird shit.

That’s what this is for.

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“I miss live music so much,” @billmeis

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Today I chose day old coffee and putting my phone down to make this loop. This piece of video. This art. This isn’t to land a record deal, or get a billboard in Times Square. This is a signal to other weirdos out there (maybe you).

This is my resume in full display. I can make music. I can make videos. I can make social media assets. And I’m a bit weird.

These probably won’t get me making recruiter clips for HR departments, but hey, if you make music and need some video advice, hit me up. If you make videos and need some music, let’s talk.

Not as some formal big time collaboration thing… let’s talk. Shoot me an email, say hello.

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Sometimes I think, wow… I could do so much more with these clips. Add some lyrics, another hook, make another part. But then I remember these are my daily journal entries. My morning meditation. Crack open my laptop, plug in my synth, and see what happens.

Between Super Bowl half-time performer and someone taking their first music lesson as a kid, there’s a lot of space in between, and the Super Bowl half-time show isn’t always the goal.

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“There’s a massive burnout spike just around the corner as companies start to ask employees who’ve been barely holding it together through a year of a pandemic to start transitioning back to offices as if nothing has happened. Check in on your people and prepare accordingly,” @stewartsc

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What’s this NFT thing all about? Do you need to get on Tik Tok? Should you pay to promote your Tweets?

Write a good song. Take a good photograph. Paint a nice picture.

Make something good and nice that warms your heart, and keep doing that. Make it a habit, like the 2 hours a day you stare at Instagram.

It’s temping to pick up the phone to see what’s going on. Check for likes. See who maybe commented on one of your posts.

And yes, you need breaks. Of course.

But you need to write a good song. At this point in your artistic career, you have a better shot at writing that great play, that great song, that great image than you do “being really good at socials.”

Because someday socials will disappear. Make damn sure you’ve been using this time to make better art.

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Keep making, keep taking. Borrow, beg, and steal. Refine, reduce, I don’t know. Just make stuff. Throw up a warning flare to other weirdos that it’s okay to throw caution to the wind and let it fly. Break all the eggs, break all your legs, let it rip.

Moments of music making, and video making, keep my mind clear. Not full time, of course, but I look forward to the moments to let loose and make some weird shit.

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“Fair to say that if someone sends me a link that starts with facebook dot com, I won’t be seeing it (and I’ll be surviving quite nicely),” @georgehahn

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