WOLVES, 2022
The debut album from Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, christy.
Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, christy’s debut album, “WOLVES” is composed of personal experiences about desire, grief, turmoil, concession, and growth. The album’s title track “WOLVES” is a visually rich sonic exploration of living as a neurodivergent person, while other tracks explore desire and betrayal. The artist refers to being neurodivergent as “wolves”, which she sometimes runs with and sometimes from. “I tried to spin the gnashing of my teeth into a gold thread so fine that all my mending would look like stars,” says the artist of her esoteric process.
With influences ranging from Cat Power to Kraftwerk, the project is written and co-produced entirely by christy (formally Glitzer), and co-produced by four time Grammy nominee and winner for this year’s best R&B song, notable DJ, musician, and producer Jahi Sundance (Robert Glasper, State of Emergency, Moon Medicine, Miguel, Meshell Ndegeocello). LA based producer, Colby Groce, co-produced “Reign Down” and “Pockets”, and Cheyne Taylor Bush, half of the LA based due “Tetrad” co-produced several tracks and engineered the project.
“WATER”, the first single from the celebrated conceptual artist, is a critique of transactional value, affirming that people are valuable not because of, but in spite of what they can do for others. The track begins with the lyrics, “You never treated me like water, like a soft thing carving canyons in stone”, alluding to the way water is revered as a resource, but rarely for its qualities outside its relationship to humanity.
“Reign Down”, the second single from the LA area native, explores the ways mental health challenges affect creative practices. During a period of relative stability for the artist, she intentionally embraced recklessness and self-sabotage to attempt to force the creative process to accelerate. Her therapist suggested that she use songwriting to document the challenges she was having in trying to write during this time and the result is “Reign Down”. Reign Down ultimately questions this paradigm artists face in making art and navigating relationships and human connection. As christy explains, “I do not want to struggle in my creative process and I find it terribly cliche that producing art is such a necessary torment for me. I do not always like the person being an artist makes me. The people I love most are sometimes casualties in the various moods it takes to finish a work. The struggle of being an artist is a spiritual relationship with your own ego so you can experience deep and meaningful, authentic human connection, not just the struggle to make art.”
“greyscale”, the third single, is a sonic response to a short and intense relationship between two lovers, one of whom brings toxic qualities out of the other, as if the presence of the other is a powerful potion, turning her into monsters. The song references Simone de Beauvoir‘s 1967 La Femme Rompue, in which which a woman, realizing all the unfulfilled promises of patriarchy, becomes a monster to her family. The film/video for “grayscale” has been featured as a semi-finalist at the Boden International Film Festival, and it won the music video category at the Luleå International Film Festival, both in 2022 in Sweden.
Other tracks on the album include the melancholy ballad, “far from being full”, about the inability to fulfill another’s needs, “Really About You”, a response to the paradox of being a narcissist's muse while being relatively invisible to them, and “Wild Strawberries”, written while the artist was at a residency in Northern France, about the human tendency to destroy wild things and people.
One of LA Weekly’s 2012 “Best Of” Angelinos and a 2021 IMMENSIVA XR/AI artist in residence, christy is an LA based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective relationships to power. A celebrated conceptual artist and alumni of Made In LA (2014), CURRENT: LA Public Art Triennial (2016), and solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, American Jewish University, Austin Peay University and many more, her mediums include artificial intelligence/machine learning, AR, drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, and video/film. christy produced, designed, and directed all the videos for the project, as well as designing her wardrobes and merchandise which include collaborations with Kimberly Loveless-McKinnis and artists working in glass, ceramics, and textiles. In addition to the traditional shirts, totes, and embroidered dad hats of tone slingers worldwide, there will be glass strawberry pipes, moon mobiles, AI generated videos of water, and more! WOLVES is a narrative with its own characters and mythology.
The debut album from Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, christy.
Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist, christy’s debut album, “WOLVES” is composed of personal experiences about desire, grief, turmoil, concession, and growth. The album’s title track “WOLVES” is a visually rich sonic exploration of living as a neurodivergent person, while other tracks explore desire and betrayal. The artist refers to being neurodivergent as “wolves”, which she sometimes runs with and sometimes from. “I tried to spin the gnashing of my teeth into a gold thread so fine that all my mending would look like stars,” says the artist of her esoteric process.
With influences ranging from Cat Power to Kraftwerk, the project is written and co-produced entirely by christy (formally Glitzer), and co-produced by four time Grammy nominee and winner for this year’s best R&B song, notable DJ, musician, and producer Jahi Sundance (Robert Glasper, State of Emergency, Moon Medicine, Miguel, Meshell Ndegeocello). LA based producer, Colby Groce, co-produced “Reign Down” and “Pockets”, and Cheyne Taylor Bush, half of the LA based due “Tetrad” co-produced several tracks and engineered the project.
“WATER”, the first single from the celebrated conceptual artist, is a critique of transactional value, affirming that people are valuable not because of, but in spite of what they can do for others. The track begins with the lyrics, “You never treated me like water, like a soft thing carving canyons in stone”, alluding to the way water is revered as a resource, but rarely for its qualities outside its relationship to humanity.
“Reign Down”, the second single from the LA area native, explores the ways mental health challenges affect creative practices. During a period of relative stability for the artist, she intentionally embraced recklessness and self-sabotage to attempt to force the creative process to accelerate. Her therapist suggested that she use songwriting to document the challenges she was having in trying to write during this time and the result is “Reign Down”. Reign Down ultimately questions this paradigm artists face in making art and navigating relationships and human connection. As christy explains, “I do not want to struggle in my creative process and I find it terribly cliche that producing art is such a necessary torment for me. I do not always like the person being an artist makes me. The people I love most are sometimes casualties in the various moods it takes to finish a work. The struggle of being an artist is a spiritual relationship with your own ego so you can experience deep and meaningful, authentic human connection, not just the struggle to make art.”
“greyscale”, the third single, is a sonic response to a short and intense relationship between two lovers, one of whom brings toxic qualities out of the other, as if the presence of the other is a powerful potion, turning her into monsters. The song references Simone de Beauvoir‘s 1967 La Femme Rompue, in which which a woman, realizing all the unfulfilled promises of patriarchy, becomes a monster to her family. The film/video for “grayscale” has been featured as a semi-finalist at the Boden International Film Festival, and it won the music video category at the Luleå International Film Festival, both in 2022 in Sweden.
Other tracks on the album include the melancholy ballad, “far from being full”, about the inability to fulfill another’s needs, “Really About You”, a response to the paradox of being a narcissist's muse while being relatively invisible to them, and “Wild Strawberries”, written while the artist was at a residency in Northern France, about the human tendency to destroy wild things and people.
One of LA Weekly’s 2012 “Best Of” Angelinos and a 2021 IMMENSIVA XR/AI artist in residence, christy is an LA based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores personal and collective relationships to power. A celebrated conceptual artist and alumni of Made In LA (2014), CURRENT: LA Public Art Triennial (2016), and solo exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, American Jewish University, Austin Peay University and many more, her mediums include artificial intelligence/machine learning, AR, drawing, performance, installation, sculpture, and video/film. christy produced, designed, and directed all the videos for the project, as well as designing her wardrobes and merchandise which include collaborations with Kimberly Loveless-McKinnis and artists working in glass, ceramics, and textiles. In addition to the traditional shirts, totes, and embroidered dad hats of tone slingers worldwide, there will be glass strawberry pipes, moon mobiles, AI generated videos of water, and more! WOLVES is a narrative with its own characters and mythology.
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