No Filter in a nutshell are Journal musings. This concept is a 3 part audio Journal entry that focuses on the thoughts, feelings and musings of a teenager dealing with sexual assault, suicidal tendencies and the loss of a friend through suicide. These musings come from dealing with the anxieties and fallout after the fact of these events. Almost 10 years on for some of these instances and with all of the help that I received I felt it was time to get these stories out. To make other people who may have suffered silently know they are not alone and that there is the support out there, should they want to seek it. In doing this project I am also hoping to show people out there that there are people who understand what you went through and to also show them they can go through the motions dealing with it but not to let it be the thing that defeats you in life. Take those stories and find a way to make you stronger.
This project due to the personal connection was by far one of the hardest projects I have taken on. However, through the many meltdowns and through trial and error in creating a fitting instrumental track to support my readings we got there. #noFilter will be published in the next coming months on my website for my label launch. My intention was to kickstart the label with my story and also share some of the other projects I had been involved in so future artists can know who they are working with from the start. By sharing this honesty and rawness I hope to show them that I am human and I know they are too and I don't want to be like just another label and put pressure on them to just create whatever sounds good. But to work and develop their sound and give voice to what they may want to say.
As the writings were done first, coming up with a fitting instrumental was a bit of a challenge. As in creating music or anything that has an instrumental accompaniment the process usually has the music or tune in some form of development and then sparks to life the words to follow.
The main inspiration for the style of how I wanted the tracks to be was Alessia Cara's Song 'Scars to your beautiful'
I also had wanted to interview people and include theirs stories as well. However, the friends that I had gathered together on the day with the microphones all set up it became too real. So we had all agreed that they were understandably not ready to be sharing their stories. I also realised that this style of track would in the end feel too showcase like and these sensitive topics needed to be shared in a more intimate and raw way due to the nature of the musings. So I decided to do some research into spoken word poetry which I felt would be able to keep the emotion and rawness of the musings and to also convey the messages, having the impact I had wanted to receive from audiences with regards to this project.
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