Fultronic theory
Vol I.

03.09.04

I believe in what I do. This is my contribution to music and that space in society I am to fill. Sometimes it’s the only thing that keeps me alive, turns me around and makes me want more. Other times I feel it’s all been done before and there’s nothing left to say. Now for instance, I hear the sounds of someone else playing guitar in the apartment above me. I’m hearing the changes, feeling the melody and thinking that’s been done before. At all points of my life, there will always be more I don’t know than I do. There will always be more musicians I haven’t heard than I have. There is always a better singer, writer and lover out there. Still I must push because there are many under me and beside me. When you have a signature sound, you have to make your own market. This can be difficult because conformity is number one in American pop culture. We take the same things and put a twist to them...celebrities, food, movies, communication, fashion and music.

Some artists, such as Prince have lasted a long period of time writing commercial songs early, later making albums full of tracks that flow together and create an organized feeling of harmony without the pressure and notion to satisfy mainstream appeal. Outkast, has taken hip-hop to a different level with thick jazz solos and heavy producing. They started with a category and expanded. Zappa made the commitment too, by writing rock music to make money for his first love, orchestral work. Frank could of written big hits, as shown by Uncle Remus, but that’s not how he got off. I’m writing what comes to me, taking from what I see, hear and taste everyday. If I’m listening to Mozart, Slayer and Sly before I write a song, it will come out with pieces of that music. It can be categorized after it’s written. The goal is to alter what comes through, not create what comes from.

Play like everyone, sound like none of 'em. That is the theory behind Fultronic. Understand, it’s ok to take the melody from the homeless sax man, the rhythm from car horns and the harmony from Paul Schaefer’s late night horns. It has all been written before, but no one actually feels the way you do when you play it. Everyone has similar emotions but different ways to achieve them. Recognizing the way people get into certain situations and the behavior that follows is essential to song writing. If I get too far off the melody, I’m lost and I end up in a new place, dissimilar to where I started. If I commit to a song and get bored in the end, it loses feeling and ends abruptly. Much like the end of a relationship, it starts out sweet, then moves to it’s own separate ways.

I feel comfortable singing a sad emo song right into a mock rocker because we’re exposed to that everyday. Nightly news will go from a gang shooting to celebrity gossip to a commercial about smoking. We’re living in the moment at all times, we can think for the future but only feel the present. Each situation that is presented to me retracts an emotion and a reaction that can be shown in music. Everything has a song for it and I’m going to write it. I have no money, a broken car, a 5 digit debt and a pair of socks I wear everyday...but all that’s a song. I won’t let you know that right from the start and maybe I’ll never tell you, but you can make your own judgement. Let my songs bring you achievement in emotion. Take that and sing with it, this is the communication of music and of life… This is the theory of Fultronic.