Tipton Jones-Boiter

I painted this when I was 16. I've now been able to hear what it "sounds" like to me 31 years later.

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The other songs for this show were recorded in the studio. This recording was done by laying my phone on my keyboard. You can hear shuffling noises and the clicking of my fingernails on the piano keys. I didn't attempt to clean it up because there was something real in that moment, mistakes and all, that I didn't want to lose by polishing it up. This one is also an example of how I let the paintings influence genre or musical style. I definitely wanted some reggae elements. The codex guides with chords and scale degrees but so much of it factors in other elements as well.

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I've had some other powerful moments of completing or revisiting art and music pieces decades later.

One example is a song I wrote the piano music for at the age of 12 and the lyrics for at the age of 44.  I never even envisioned lyrics for it. Decades later they came out of nowhere.

(The song is "Hands That Knew You Well". It's on streaming platforms if you want to hear it)

It really feels like being able to go back in time and have a conversation of sorts with my younger self. Those moments have been very healing.