Spectral Arts
Music, Poetry & Art VA, United States
Monday, January 1, 2024
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Thursday, December 1, 2022
Spectral Arts & The Creative Process
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Spectral Arts & The Creative Process
I remember one early session Doug Eagle V. (our drummer) and I had in his family house back in 1994, we were still searching for a sound and had not started to work with Eric L. yet on what would become The Spiritworld and later Spectral Arts. I began to sing my poems in a way that emulated popular and angst driven vocalists at the time from bands like Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana and Doug said simply “man, don’t sing like that”, it was clear, direct and what I needed to hear at the time and most likely saved me from decades of trying to create music that was not really who I was for the sake of it being more popular. I never forgot that one afternoon in the practice space and I never returned to trying to sing like I had ripped my heart out and was watching it beat in my own hands. We needed to find out what worked for our own artistic sensibilities and not base our music on what people expected it should be at the time.
-T. Byron K.
9/29/2022
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Spectral Arts & The Creative Process
My process playing in a band is pretty simple. Usually it starts with a member starting to play something. Listening to the others is very important. I usually don't have a certain beat on the drums in mind when we start jamming. I flow off the other musicians. I feel like I play better when I think less about it. It feels very zen.
-Cory T.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Alcyone 2007-2020
Spectral Arts
@spectralartsva
Alcyone 2007-2020
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
From Bishop Seraphim Sigrist
Saturday, April 17, 2021
1989-2021
I remember starting out back in 1985 in a local cover band (The Stand) and even then there seemed to be more off campus places to hold a show. After being in a short lived band with Will Simmons of Milkbadger and Bees Make Honey, I was asked to join Crayon as a singer in '89 (before the band became Blindspot). That was an amazing time and my exposure to the artists in that band (Scott Flory, Duncan Macomber and Yax Lacey) proved invaluable. I also ended up meeting our drummer of over 20 years in that band (Doug Eagle V.) and after a period of time in an alt rock band called Dirty Pictures (featuring D.W. Baugh on drums and Adam Hodge on Guitars), Doug and I began recording performance poetry using a 4 track as The Spooks in early '93. At that point we focused on doing XYZ benefits and local gallery performances and they have been our primary venues since then. We have worked/recorded with a few guitarists (also under the name the Spiritworld).
-2009
Crayon was a major template for us in later bands and the first band in which I was encouraged to actually sing my poetry during performances. Joining the band was something like being asked to play in Nirvana at the time for local musicians. Crayon gave us new courage to move forward and explore in later bands as well and there would never have been a Spectral Arts had we not had some role in Crayon in our early days together. We had somewhat of a (surprise) Crayon reunion this evening at our studio when Scott Flory arrived with his guitar (our last jam together was in 1993 with Duncan Macomber on Bass and Butch Lazorchek on drums). I mentioned to Scott that I had been trying to tell my band mates the significance of our early work with Crayon for years, but after he played a few songs with our group I think they understood. Crayon was a band that changed our lives forever.
-2013
Spectral Arts and Project Morning Star are the last incarnations of the early work we began in 1989. The spirit of Crayon has permeated those bands in regard to how we have approached our music collectively and in terms of artistic openness and spontaneity. What we learned about working together creatively has carried us forward 30 years now. God has given us a joy and love we have for creating with one another musically and that has endured.
-2021
by T. Byron K.