plastic minds
a passion project
My first year in college, I was going for computer engineering. Looking back on that year, I can say it wasn’t the right direction in some ways but certainly informed my career as I took on more FE coding.
When I determined that design was the right direction for me, it was my musical influences that drove that decision. So it’s fitting that by senior year at Hartford Art School, a parting gift to my classmates was a 3 track EP under the guise of Plastic Minds.
The name is a reflection on not only my wide range of musical tastes, but also my passion of Lego sets and model building as a kid. 20+ years later and I’m still making music under the same name. It continues to be diverse in style, though leaning heavier towards industrial techno.
I use Plastic Minds as an creative outlet to share my love of album art as well. Radioactive Dust for instance is an ode to Rich Borge, a great illustrator and designer who did several album covers for Meat Beat Manifesto. The song itself has MBM influence as well.
Most of my artwork consists of collage work, rusty or deteriorated objects, glitch art, and nature.
Latest release with my old college friend, collaborator, and mentor Joshua Colella as Scrap.edx.
storm of knives / Medicine crow
Plastic Minds / Scrap.edx
Coming off the heals of my self-released LP ‘The Coming Storm’ in about 2019, Josh and I discussed doing a split release together. Over the course of the next 3+ years, we worked on several tracks, exchanged ideas, production techniques, and album direction concepts.
It took some time to find a stopping point, wrap up, and create promotions to release, but we finally landed on a release date of July 7, 2023. I learned quite a bit during the process and enjoyed creating the album art and promotional items.
This was my first release to be available on all streaming services.
Ok ok… we didn’t release a vinyl release unfortunately, but I wanted to show the ‘back’ (available in the Bandcamp download) and thought this would be a nicer way to show what could be… someday!
Promo 1
Promo 2
Full length video
I put this video together using WW2 imagery, Glitch Studio (iPhone App) for rendering glitchy material at 1 min clips, and DaVinci Resolve video editor (free version) to sequence. I rarely do video work, but quickly learned when putting this together.
