Good day to you all,
Just a reminder to you (and me), who am I and what am I doing?
True Being is a musician trying to understand and interpret this world through music and visual explorations, keeping a balance on truth, depth and meaning as we head into a more technological future.
This year has started very positively scoring the music to a documentary about Courtney Love. It was a pleasure and a privilege scoring music to intimate letters and scenes between her and Cobain who I’d modelled my look on as a 15 year old boy. Everyone seemed to love the film (even Courtney), however, at the the very last moment she decided not to come. I can only presume her artistic self doubt and insecurity got the better of her just moments before release. I couldn’t possibly know how she feels. A chance to hang with the queen of Grunge passed, but the overall experience with the premiere at Sundance in Utah certainly made up for it.
GREAT SEGWAY COMING!!!
That brings me to my own insecurities. I released my latest single last month, and did I tell anyone? Did I F#@k. Something strange happens between creating it, getting excited by it, releasing it and then hating it. I’m hoping by the time I’m 60 to have got a handle on this chain of events. However the passing of time (like with the death of a loved one) has diminished the pain sufficiently enough for me to now tell someone so here it is if anyone is up for it. 21st Century Flux.
https://linktr.ee/truebeing. Just click “latest song”.
Relevant world news you may/may not have heard-
Within the sphere of subjects relevant to True Being, there was some great news in a much wider context. Meta and YouTube have been ruled to have consciously created addictive products that caused negative effects and depression of a young girl in America. It’s a landmark ruling.
We all knew of course, but now it’s been proven and we can’t understate the importance of this.
It’s about accountability that’s all, as they’ve prioritised engagement over health and now they’ve rightfully been caught out. This gives me optimism for the future that just maybe after all, some tech companies will have to put welfare of users further up the list. There are little pockets of resistance bubbling all over and this is just part of a broader movement.
My wife’s film Molly vs the Machines also aired on Channel 4 last month, which is at the forefront of this discussion and an important doc is available on More 4.
Newest Merch- The True cap. Nature confined in a graph! You could say it’s a metaphor for Big Tech not being happy until they’ve successfully confined us all to digits and data… or, you just say that I liked how it looked.
https://truebeing.co/en-gbp/products/rainbow-logo-cap
Well that’s all for this one. I hope everyone is feeling the positivity that Spring brings.
Speak soon
Nikky - True Being
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