Creation vol.3 - Rebound

Well, it's finally happening - the third incarnation of the Creation series is being born as I am typing this. The third volume is called "Rebound"; it is the hardest compilation that came out of this CD-burner to-date.

What are these compilations all about? Good question that. There's a bit of a long story behind it all even though the whole affair took off only in the last few months. Basically, it is a means of self-healing, self-therapy. I am using sound to heal my soul. 'Sounds' kinda weird, doesn't it . And yet it is so effective.

After the last relationship I hit it low pretty hard. Yeah, I will always add, "But I broke up with him!" and yet it doesn't really make me feel any better. It was very intense and so very educational. Towards the third month after the break-up I just started going nuts. It was impossible to reconcile some issues that were replaying in my head - it just wasn't sticking together very well.

This is also around the time when my friend Chris gave me a CD that he had burnt himself. The music kinda sucked (sorry Chris, it did!) but the concept was just so interesting. What he did was to choose a song for every boy in our group and put them all together on a CD. There was even one for me in there! And I was only a new addition to the group! What a way to make a person feel included and liked and accepted and all those fuzzy and warm things with the big shiney Japanese cartoon eyes that make you go aaaahhh. He gave a copy to everyone asking to guess which song was theirs. I don't think I got mine right but guessed Chris's instead. LOL.

And that's how it all started. It was perfect. This was the way to express my inner feelings and emotions, to release the pent-up energy constantly building up inside with no way out. After all while I was going through the hardest times imaginable, I still listened to music, right? So what was that music? What was the stage I was in while those tracks were being played? Perfect. It’s like my life’s soundtrack!

It seemed kinda easy to identify the stages I was in at the time. With a little third-person skill, anyone can do it. So while I was boiling my eyes out and cursing the Universe for being so mean (really I was just cursing myself for being so stupid and retarded), I would pike up and yell, “Well at least I fucking know what to call the next Creation! Rebound! Fucking Steven!”

It was funny at the time. You had to be there.

This is heavily paraphrased in time and space, of course and yet the basic idea is the same. You get into a stage that you name under the most peculiar and crazy circumstances – the name just comes, and then just delve into music and choose the stuff that tickles your fancy. In my case, I call it “cathartic release” or “ecstatic arousal”. Then you put it together and annoy your friends with it while you exhibit the most sickening expressions of pride and satisfaction from your achievements.

And of course the whole thing gets addictive after a while. You just cannot stop. After a while you realise that you can annoy the customers in your restaurant and so a whole new series is born – Creation Industries. That you can unleash on the masses while they have their expensive dinners or functions. Well, at least you are having fun! But then you notice wagging feet and smiles and the noise level goes up – and so do the tips. Hmmmm… Maybe that marketing degree did work… Lucky uni is nearly finished…

Oh, by the way, "rebound" has two meanings. One is to bounce back, return and the other one is to recover. I meant the former meaning here. I was freaking out and wanting to go back to the ex for some reason - well I can kinda see the reasons now. "Recovery" is the next compilation that I am currently researching...

"Rebound" was the hardest because it took the longest to get over it and hence complete the research for the soundrack. Cool, hey.