Seth Faergolzia

  • This is incredibly exciting!! Two months of work, and the new video is done!

    Helly delly friendly peoples!  Super ‘citement from the duperdiddly worm!

    I’ve finished the video I’ve put my heart and soul into for the past two months straight!

    First I made the song in 2014, then recorded it in 2015, then toured with it in 2016, and now I’ve finished the video.   Wow!  I must really like this song!  It’s a pretty weird hip-hop loop song, and it’s the first time since I really started learning video editing that I’ve just let loose and been creative with a video.  The other videos I’ve put on here felt creative, don’t get me wrong, but this was the first time I got really deep into it and tried to make a singular work of art out of the video.

    It’s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good!  (I had to type each one of those ‘o’s out individually, by the way.  I work so hard for you!!)  I’m pretty certain I’ve clocked at least a hundred hours work on just the video alone.  The song, well, that’s likely even more at this point.

    I let my imagination run loose by first learning about storyboarding then making a storyboard while listening to the tune.  From there I set up the green screen studio in my garage (I’m lucky to have this great garage in my backyard!), and I started shooting.  Everything always takes way longer than I think it’s going to because I strive for better versions of myself constantly (which, incidentally, is sort of what this song is about).

    So I like a lot of the footage I took, improved camera work, more understanding of the camera settings.  I gained understanding in greenscreen and keying.  I learned a ton about editing video, layers, frame rate.  Made costumes.  Laura Lee Jones made a puppet which I pinned to a greenscreen suit in order to have my head on its little body!!  So fun!  I even got a haircut!!!

    Please watch it.  Please like it on youtube.  Please do not share the video link (yet), but if you can, pass this Patreon page along to 5 people who you think will care enough to subscribe.  I’m shooting to get the number of subscribers up to about 200, then I can perpetuate it and even maybe be able to hire some helpers so the process gets quicker and better, the art gets more focus, and my more grand ideas can become realized!!

    The lyrics:

    Rubbing It In – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

    When I put a joke in, into the mental ether

    I yolk the folk up and they giggle with their dental teeth

    Rental cars for miles and miles

    Emptying the pockets of the souls defiled

    I’m ripping up the money

    I’m ripping up the money

    I’m ripping up the money even though my joke was funny

    It made your eyes all runny and it tightened up your tummy

    But I just can’t keep running like this

    This isn’t bliss;  it’s like I missed the point when I rolled into the joint

    To cover up the pain I could never seem to tame

    But this is the time when my mind isn’t blind

    And I’m finding out the kind of man I can be when I shine

    I’m fine, and I’m an artist of the utmost

    I roast all my past selves in an oven made of love

    They cook to perfection, warm and tender, no need to defend ‘em

    I gobble ‘em up and wash ‘em down with a goblet of my blood

    This is self love of the highest order

    This ain’t no ordinary sorb, sorb

    Absorb all my past selves

    Absorb all my past selves

    Rubbin’ it in

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

    Listen to this:

    you might have missed out so open up your ears and take the words out of your mouth

    Aw yeah, rubbin’ it in

    When I was a little kid of 7 found a gun in an abandoned building, just out to have some fun

    Were things any different them or have they stayed the same

    Gobble up my past selves, then I change the name and I said

    Aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in, aw yeah I’m rubbin’ it in.

    If I take a picture of the who I was then

    And then again take picture of the me at age 10

    Aw yeah, I gobbled it up

    Look a couple years into the future and then

    Compare to the picture of the me that was 10, and you can tell

    Aw yeah, I gobbled it up

    Human in a bottle and I’m rubbin’ it up to pour a cup

    I wanna take a pull and drink myself up, I pour a cup

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in!

    Think about it:

    Think about this:

    Won’t say it loud, that’d be annoying

    Somehow made this song that I sing and that’s a thing

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    Every memory, every thought you think

    Can get lost or put into the mental sink and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    I’m gazing down from up above

    Etherally looking at my brain with love and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin it in

    I reach inside with memory

    Valuable, each and every piece and I said

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in

    Aw yeah, I’m rubbin’ it in.

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    Thanks a ton, my friends!  That’s what you are… my friends!  Because you give of yourself to help this dream come to form… and because you care enough to support who I am, my weird self, you allow me to be not only vulnerable without fear, but you also allow me to be my strongest version!

    much love,

    Seth

  • Fresh work on PATREON!!

    Art-work is my lifestyle.
    For most of of my career, I’ve been writing, recording, touring and composing as an independent artist, acting as booking agent, promoter, designer, engineer, secretary… and the list goes on. The work keeps me going.  The drive to create keeps me working.  If you subscribe on Patreon to my work, you’ll get insider vlogs, monthly song downloads and video releases as they are completed… before the general public.  Plus you get a look at what it’s like to be a DIY artist, up close and personal, from my home to yours.  Exclusive Faergolzia!

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    http://www.patreon.com/sethfaergolzia

  • You get an old one from the vaults, exclusively.

    https://soundcloud.com/multibird/gun-pointed-at-you/s-0wkcA

    Gun Pointed At You

    That’s the title of this old tune from my distant past, from the days of living in NYC at See Squat.  It’s strange how clearly these lyrics hold to our present world.  I guess it’s always been the way it is, we perhaps have these waves of hope and the the destructo richies grab their piles of money and throw them at us in the form of weapons.

    some nice bits of throat singing in this

    some interesting melodic choices as well

    i’m proud of this song

    i hope you can hear it well!  it’s a low quality file, but sounds decent still, in it’s way, as a captured history, deteriorating just as any form of time capture.

    it was recorded at my good friend and Dufus bandmate Mark Ospovat’s studio Emandee in Brooklyn.  Mark recorded some of my very first recordings in 1994, I believe.  I’ll have to try to dig some of those out.

    the lyrics are on the soundcloud.

    Would you guys like me to present more of the long time history songs?  I’ve got quite a number of them that have never been digitized.  It’s a bit of work, and I’m not sure if people want to hear that stuff.  So what do you think?  Post in the comments below please!  I’d like you to put in your 2 cents!

    would you like me to work on playing this song then performing it on high quality video with perhaps better recording?  thoughts?

    hugs and friendship,

    Seth

  • OFFICIAL VIDEO for “Garbage Night” (certain to bring a smile to your face)

    Wow, this has been a long time coming!  We’ve finally finished the music video for Garbage Night!!  It’s one I started work on almost a year ago with my friend, videographer Alex Freeman.  He’s won countless awards here in Rochester for his fine work.  Alex was a pleasure to work with, and he and I plan on bringing more and more videos to you in this manner.   It’s really satisfying to finally give this to you!  We’re keeping it private for Patrons only right now and will most likely be releasing it out into the world in about a month so please do not share it, but do invite friends to subscribe.  I’ve made it my goal to get up to 100 subscribers by the end of May!

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    Here’s a link to the song if you’d like to DOWNLOAD AUDIO

    … and here’s a link to the PERCUSSION ONLY VERSION

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    The percussion is also really cool because all the instruments were found metal pieces from garbage picking.  After finding all these cool pieces of metal that made nice sounds, my daughter and I sampled them and put them into a sequencer so that I could make electronic music out of it!

    My daughter and her best friend are in this video quite a bit.  From the time my little girl could talk, she was always fascinated with finding “treasure” on the street, be it a bead or an old broken toy or a sparkle, she was always picking things up, just like her father before her, just like his mother before him.  Three generations of people who love to dig around in other peoples’ refuse to find things which are still of use.

    It’s my opinion that we are creating too much waste in this world.  We have so much stuff, just piling up in our homes.  Everyone has a pile of plastic bags.  We’ve got useless things, or single use things stacking on top of each other on our shelves, shoved in cellars, piled in attics.  People pay money for things they could easily find, or they buy it new though they could easily find the same thing used at a thrift store.  I’ve always loved creating art using junk I found on the street.  Building cool looking things at no cost but the labor.

    When I was a kid (as the story goes in the song) I really did collect a bunch of electronics and put them all into a foot locker, connected them all and plugged them in.  It is a fond memory.  I loved that machine I built.  I feel like that was the start of my creative drive, a turning point in my life.

    Anyway, I hope you will love this video so much you’ll click “like”, make comments, and spread the word about this Patreon page.  I need more subscribers to really make it work, and the only way I seem to be able to get them is if the word of mouth grows.

    Thanks piles for your support.  It means a ton to me that you would put your hard earned money in as support to my art.  I’ll take it as far as I can!!

  • Rise Up Festival

    I’m happy to say I got to book another all day festival to promote progressive politics and social justice!

     

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10155495979623352&set=gm.263138764145282&type=3&theater

  • Loop Painting #3 – live performance

    Thank you all for subscribing! You’re so amazing, helping me accomplish dreams. I really like the way this one turned out. It was my first time ever doing a live loop painting… oh, besides one time at a house show in Frankfurt, Germany, but somehow this one was more formal. I made a plan to make the painting and loop simultaneously in front of humans! It was wild and nerve wracking, but I made it through. All the music was completely improvised and the painting was not pre-planned. It took about an hour. The video you’re getting is all that boiled down to under 4 minutes ( i think), and down below this paragraph you can get a longer version of just audio. Both are really cool. I hope you dig.

    https://youtu.be/q5GjQNiSiFU

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    20 MINUTE LOOP AUDIO: (just click and download)

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5hts1e0rbju13z/Loop%20Painting%203%20audio%20extended%20copy.wav?dl=0

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    This month I plan on definitely and for sure releasing the GARBAGE NIGHT video! It’s been many months in the works, and I think you’ll all love it! Besides that we’re having a big event at Anthology here in Rochester, an all day festival sort of thing raising money and awareness for causes I believe in! Yay!

    hugs,

    Seth

  • A Drawing and a Song

    I realized I could make a sort of stop motion video if I set my camera to rapid fire with enough time for my hand to get on and off the screen before the next shot.  I drew this picture in 1020 strokes!  Each stroke was between 4 second shots on the camera.  I then put it all into the program I use for video editing, shrunk it down to one minute, repeated it twice with effect tweaks and put my song “Stars On the Pavement” on it.  It took quite a bit more work than expected, but every time I do something new, I learn something new!!  That’s the spirit of innovation!!  I hope you’ll all enjoy!

    Subscribe here to get all the video and new music I create as I create it!!

  • Patreon

    I’ve been posting most of my new video and musical material to PATREON, so if you can, please subscribe over there!!

  • 23 Whensdays at Flour City Station

    Seth Faergolzia & the 23 Psaegz are proud to host a weekly residency “23 WHENSDAYS” for four weeks on Wednesdays in March! We will be having weekly givaways and new material premieres each week plus one other band and one solo artist along for the ride!!! Check out all the awesomeness below….

    March 1 with Personal Blend and The Crooked North Trio
    March 8 with Ocular Panther and Jackson Cavalier
    March 15 with Folkfaces and Roger Kuhn
    March 22 with Whitewoods and MdotCoop
    … with projections by Colonel Parmisan / Brian Blatt

    If you make it for all 4 weeks you’ll get a free goodie bag including poster, 2 CDs, stickers, buttons and a couple other random things!

  • High Diver Video Collaboration

    Whoa, cool!  This is just so awesome.  I’ve gotten to be involved in this wonderful and strange collaboration…  firstly, during the #100songs project I came up with a fun technique to get a few songs written in one day.  What I did was to make a sonic background consisting of very common pop music chord structures that repeated repeatedly.  Repeating repeatedly for the length of about 15 minutes.  I would then write a song from beginning to end over this sonic background.  I would take a break, then come back and write another song… most of these had two vocal parts that harmonized then keyboards and guitars or whatever I deemed to add.  Some really cool songs came from that #100songs project.  As a subscriber to this page you get all 50 of the fully produced songs that came out of that project.  
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    In exhausting my verbal tank during this endeavor, I asked my partner, Laura Lee Jones, if I could use some of her poetry for a song.  She gave me a stack, and being the songwriter I am, I took the one with the fewest words 🙂  High Diver… the song was born!!  
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    A couple months after finishing the project I happened upon a cool video by my friends Holy Sheboygan  and Dheff Films  (you can see the video here) so decided to drop them a line and see where they were at… sent them a few songs and serendipitously they happened to be planning a docusic video (documentaray / music video) about Dana Kunze.  I was like, “wow!”
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    They wanted to get me into the video as an actor too, but alas, I was in San Francisco on artist residency at the Convent so couldn’t get to (I think it was) Minnesota (?)… hmm… anyway, couldn’t get to the video shoot with Dana, but I will be meeting with him this summer in Lake George and hopefully planning a music show with high dives.  Maybe a sequel to the video?  Gotta find the right venue…
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    Very pumped about this one.  I hope you’ll join in with us spreading it far and wide.  There’s a way to get it out there, but it takes a bit of effort.  Hopefully you’ll join in bringing this art to the world.  We thank you for viewing.