I've created music for several years as "kaioni".
The name came to me in a dream, in 2009, when I couldn't decide a name for the music. It was - in the dream - the name of an ancient sunken city.
I learned later that this is a Hawaiian name, & I will not be some idiot "acculturator" that just takes a name from other cultures (not to mention, the history of Hawaii & it's "acquisition"..).
I could write a big post about privilege & appropriation, but I'm just leaving it at that. For now.
I will be making music under my birthname : Jerome . This is who I am. While the music is more important than the name, it is really a part of what I'm here to do - my mission & my heart & who I really am, rather than what or who I think I am.
Please bear with me as I go through & change all "social media", websites, & finally music online (amazon, itunes, spotify, etc)
I'm not as much of an online person as you might think. I'd rather run around in the forest all day. I make music because I have to - it is who I am. & I'm not someone to TRY rather than DO, even if two people hear it. It is for those two people, to be uplifted by. I'm not here to get followers or what-have-you. But I am online to connect with people, to have those ways to reach me & share etc. To explore this bio eco zoic sound coming through me.
& there is so very much going on in the world
I am here to be what I'm supposed to be here for. Mission. Vision. Love.
New music pouring out of me but I'd rather not talk about it. You get it.
I'm leaving for Maine for a bit, to jaunt through the trees. Next week things will be completely transformed.
All my best to you!! Heal. Love.
What has been changed so far:
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Thursday, November 13, 2014
Standing in our gift
Hello again!
Let's uplift each other.
Having looked at the music I created - for animals, for plants, for history, for the planet, for spirit - I realized I seem to have forgotten the human aspect.
I want to be able to help.
I want to write a digital poetry book that supports the Pachamama Alliance.
I want to release a calendar of my art that supports the Ocean Conservancy, with an interactive "submit your own art for next year's November".
I want to perform with my partner a transformative & empowering theatrical concert.
I want to keep making my art, but about you, & not about me. I want to build others up.
That had been my blind spot for a long time, if I look back through the music. I wanted to help the environment, but I didn't think that through helping people, I can help the environment!
I am changing the "I want to" to "I will"!
With "Get Brave!", I had tried to "shock people awake" (into my perspective).
With "eco-Lectronica", I had tried to blend genres & craft catchy melodies to plant the environmental message as an earworm.
But still they both served ME.
Instead I want to help OTHERS.
It is so empowering to create from a space of "How can I interact with people that leads to the environmental shift I want to see in the world?". It is so empowering to EMPOWER OTHERS.
I have a list of possibilities I am looking at right now.
There are niches of access for me: I can connect with gay men in this country (America) who are CLOSE to winning marriage equality. (Not 100% won yet, but close!) I want to remind these men that once the "battle is won", let's turn our power, our attention, our giving, onto other important issues, rather than go back to our lives of ME. Let's turn our attention next to The Environment! To supporting those women that held our hands by fighting with grace for their rights to equal pay & to protecting their right to choice. To ensuring that this has not just been a white man's issue, but that gay people of all heritage are recognized as part of our varied community!
I want to empower people who have been through sexual molestation/abuse. I have been through it, & I want to be able to help how I can to lift them up. From victims to champions.
I want to encourage people to explore art in a way that teaches our symbiosis, our connections to each other across cultures - all within an environmental framework. We are the rainforest.
Everyone is important, & I don't mean to include only a few niches. These are simply two examples of how I can begin to affect change in communities with a close relation to me. The next step would be to communicate with those who do not have a close relation to me. The walls are coming down as I realize how important this is. I have been preaching to a choir (& I love you for listening), but it's time to share, listen, & exchange with those beyond the clergy (so to speak)!
That's my check-in, I suppose!
I will report on more of these next time!
All my best to you
-Kaioni
Let's uplift each other.
Having looked at the music I created - for animals, for plants, for history, for the planet, for spirit - I realized I seem to have forgotten the human aspect.
I want to be able to help.
I want to write a digital poetry book that supports the Pachamama Alliance.
I want to release a calendar of my art that supports the Ocean Conservancy, with an interactive "submit your own art for next year's November".
I want to perform with my partner a transformative & empowering theatrical concert.
I want to keep making my art, but about you, & not about me. I want to build others up.
That had been my blind spot for a long time, if I look back through the music. I wanted to help the environment, but I didn't think that through helping people, I can help the environment!
I am changing the "I want to" to "I will"!
With "Get Brave!", I had tried to "shock people awake" (into my perspective).
With "eco-Lectronica", I had tried to blend genres & craft catchy melodies to plant the environmental message as an earworm.
But still they both served ME.
Instead I want to help OTHERS.
It is so empowering to create from a space of "How can I interact with people that leads to the environmental shift I want to see in the world?". It is so empowering to EMPOWER OTHERS.
I have a list of possibilities I am looking at right now.
There are niches of access for me: I can connect with gay men in this country (America) who are CLOSE to winning marriage equality. (Not 100% won yet, but close!) I want to remind these men that once the "battle is won", let's turn our power, our attention, our giving, onto other important issues, rather than go back to our lives of ME. Let's turn our attention next to The Environment! To supporting those women that held our hands by fighting with grace for their rights to equal pay & to protecting their right to choice. To ensuring that this has not just been a white man's issue, but that gay people of all heritage are recognized as part of our varied community!
I want to empower people who have been through sexual molestation/abuse. I have been through it, & I want to be able to help how I can to lift them up. From victims to champions.
I want to encourage people to explore art in a way that teaches our symbiosis, our connections to each other across cultures - all within an environmental framework. We are the rainforest.
Everyone is important, & I don't mean to include only a few niches. These are simply two examples of how I can begin to affect change in communities with a close relation to me. The next step would be to communicate with those who do not have a close relation to me. The walls are coming down as I realize how important this is. I have been preaching to a choir (& I love you for listening), but it's time to share, listen, & exchange with those beyond the clergy (so to speak)!
That's my check-in, I suppose!
I will report on more of these next time!
All my best to you
-Kaioni
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