Gerald Prokop

I haven’t had much of a chance to work on things the last few years, as the housing cooperative that I was working on took up all my brain space. The project failed and I had to move. I still have a lot of old projects in the works, and I’ve been sending and receiving mail art over the last year. Hopefully I’ll be releasing more work soon now that things are settling down.

I spent all winter on the code, and now I just spent the whole spring on project groundwork. I started a Medium account, released my memoir intro, my email newsletter is up and running, and I have a backlog of projects on deck to start rolling out. Also, I will be adding more content to my Prokop Art Works YouTube channel, including a tutorial on private journaling with WordPress, a tour of my network file storage, and maybe a Seas of Leaves practice set.

I added a bunch of information to my records pages. Each release has a write-up about it and I added videos and audio players. Go to Records.

There will be more frequent updates coming up as the site gets put back together. The news feed is getting built now, (hello). Other site features on deck are the records and guitar pages, posterity write-ups of past projects and trips, more merch on the support page, and reissue companion essays about It’s a Good Day to Face the Hard Things and A Call to Distract.

I’m switching to a smaller, but more frequent model of doing things.  For the time being, and possibly the foreseeable future, I’m done releasing these hand-made, physical albums with conceptual themes, experimental packaging, complex liner notes and weird writing pieces.  Instead, I’ll be releasing single tracks on YouTube and and Bandcamp, combined with B-sides and original videos.  The first one on both formats is “Dream,” a droney synth and stripped-down guitar track using MBV-esque vocal tracking.  Another song, “Let Up” is on YouTube and there will be a digital single soon.  I’m working on several different types of music and songwriting right now and will probably be experimenting more than building a large project.  You can subscribe on YouTube to follow the progress.  Most songs will probably go there first.

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