Good Bad Happy Sad and found sound
The band Good Bad Happy Sad resembles a trance trip state in which sound merges behind found and curated, meshing conversations and tunes and timelines pulling on simultaneous explorations of different genre associated sounds.
In ‘DIY’ for example, the song circulates an internal dialogue wherein which the lead talks around fixing up his house on his own, ‘because its good for me’ the call and response echoes to affirm his actions.
It references a disillusion in our state, a sort of untethering from this world, using our materials as understandings, referencing inevitable rust, the people who clean it and what that means for existence.
This use of found material and an explorative way in curating sound has roots in concrete music which utilizes ‘raw material’ and the medium itself such as manually distorting tapes and wire recordings.
In a digital humanity this manual manipulation gives light to a traditional medium, pop music.
In Good Bad Happy Sad’s efforts they’re reinvigorating catchy melodies with psychedelia and somewhat paranoia. The way in which they string these snippets and ideas together creates an eerie crescendo reflecting its industrial, post-modern state.
Their wailing saxophone for example further creates this sense of unease, as if walking through the city and all the walls begin to tilt and the veils of reality morph into creatures of the night.
These explorations and reiterations on the tradition of sound and music making help invigorate our understandings of potential energy and spur creativity in our own lives we should hope to transfer and propel forward creative solutions to an unequitable yet resource-abundant world.