Birth.
LE PLONGEUR (The Diver)
18x36”
Shellac ink & oil on birch panel.
This painting is part of a forthcoming multimedia collection of paintings, photographs, writing, music, and fragrance titled “The Heart of Winter”.
LE PLONGEUR
Rainy new year’s day in the studio;
I completed the centerpiece of my upcoming artscape, “The Heart of Winter”.
18x36”
Shellac ink & oil on birch panel
Stand by for an archival photograph of this painting.
Modulate the modulator.
Sub-bass the bass.
Reverberate the reverb.
Syncopate. Syncopate. Syncopate.
Winter arrives and the dubs begin to wash ashore again.
Rough draft, v2.5
These creative writing sketches are the guiding centerpieces, or theme statements, of the multimedia collections (“artscapes”) I am currently developing.
This piece is Act I from my upcoming artscape The Heart of Winter.
New album with bryant keith bayhan @iamthepaperman drops this Thursday 10/30
Pre-orders / preview tracks are now live on bandcamp
derekschultz.bandcamp.com
Catch @iamthepaperman bryant’s arrangement and live performance of this material at @thebunkerslo The Bunker SLO 10/30 @ 6PM
Recorded during the isolation of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, Memories of the Far Shore is a collaborative work by Derek Schultz and bryant keith bayhan, both local musicians born and raised along the shores of the Morro Bay Estuary.
Emerging from a remote collaborative process of ideation and sound-sculpting, the music is an exploration of textural sounds relating to the estuary, its shorelines, the weather patterns of the locale, and the emotional tenor of the Mediterranean summers of the California coast.
Thematically, the record is a still-life vignette of a day on the Morro Bay estuary: low, cool breezes sweeping wisps of sea-smoke across the back bay, terns and pelicans circling and diving, the warmth of the encompassing sand dunes, the ceaseless sub-bass roar of the Northeast Pacific Ocean.
Musically, the album is a blend of bayhan’s colorful tones and gritty textural soundscapes woven with Schultz’s ambient-stoner rock guitars, organs, and bass grooves. These textures are set in a bed of kosmische synthesizer drones and electronic percussion, revealing a fourth-world music consciousness that makes the album feel like a transmission from a dream-world version of the California coast.
