Member Since: 6/20/2006
Band Website: Download my songs at no cost from myspace.
Band Members: Lance Sparkman - Writer, Piano, Vocals, Production.
Influences:
I have always found myself attracted to the ideas of the offbeat. Artists that take chances and are highly conceptual excite me the most. In my youth, poetry was the easiest way for me to express myself, and the marriage of poetry and sound is something many chat up but few achieve. I was lucky enough to have been exposed to a few of these brilliant people during my formative years, and I strive to reach some level that nears their intensity.
As a student of art history, I have also been heavily influenced by the visual. I wish to create abstracted landscapes of emotions or ideas with my words, and to give my audience a wealth of colors in which they can find a visual dreamscape all of their own. Coming from an oppressive culture in the bible belt of America, it would be insane to underestimate the influence of religion and social politics upon my work. Like those artists I respect the most, I wish for my work to be more than a nice sound, or a literal re-telling of love affairs. My friends and family have always challenged me to speak loudly, to live boldly, and to never settle for black and white; for the best in humanity nearly always exists in the gray. It is these ideas that begin to hint upon the foundations of who I am as a person and who I am challenging myself to be as an artist.
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