Patricio Guerra
(Pah-TREE-see-oh Gera)
I’m a poet, engineer, musician, artist, designer, writer, bodybuilder, spiritualist, workaholic & entrepreneur.
“Inferos transire ad paradisum.”
I admire profusely the poetic eloquence inherent in our natural universe – one of form-based visual geometry and function-oriented biological, quantum, and astronomical systems. In fact, it’s this marriage between geometry and science that brings one to behold this written message – delivered remotely by the power of fiber optic copper wiring, bytes of code, transmitted via radio waves, transcoded by a computer and finally displayed by your computer monitor no thanks to transmitted light-waves of fluctuating green, red, and blue spectrums.
Getting to know me
Below are a few sample songs that reflect my inner most being. I feel that music is perhaps the simplest yet most beautiful medium of expression. So, which better way to express my deepest abstract thoughts, and synesthetic ideas than by purveying a sample menu of my favorite songs. Sonic delicacy typically beneath the array of mainstream delight, but replete with depth, beauty, and mostly polyphonic analogue synthesizers as well as decisively profound electronic guitar solos.
Listen to these three songs, and you’ll know exactly who I am.
Song 1/3 - Poles Apart
Poles Apart is perhaps my favorite song by English progressive-rock band Pink Floyd. Though most critics languish the penultimate Floydian record (The Division Bell, 1994) as a lesser creation in an otherwise tantalizingly pristine lineup of musical additions – I beg to differ. Fans of Roger Waters’ more politically decisive musical tone were quick to disregard the vastly “new-age” feel inherent in The Division Bell – a sound I find emblematic of the Floyd. Of all the musical gems that crown the jewels of the record, I figure “Poles Apart” to be the centerpiece. The lyrics are haunting – touching base upon Gilmour’s feud with Waters (the two being, as the song claims, “Poles Apart) and the eclectic bordering on psychedelic guitar solo frames this artistic piece majestically well.
Notable Lyrical Content
“Hey you…did you ever realise what you’d become
And did you see that it wasn’t only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes.”
I don’t know about you, but I can come up with a text-book sized list of people I can dedicate those lyrics to. Not like I will, rather.
Song 2/3 - Red Wine
Fresh Aire is a lesser-known late-70’s new age instrumental ensemble band molding the visionary genius of composer Chip Davis with a blend between classical-styled music and modern sounding polyphonic synthesizers. The genre is unique and without parallel. Though all 8 Fresh Aire records border on genius, this particular track, taken from the fourth iteration in the Fresh Aire series, does not cease to mesmerize my mind, body, and soul. The track delivers upon the listener an aura of spirituality molded with a modicum of fantasy, as well as scientific insight.
Song 3/3 - The Trip
The Trip is a song depicting the eclipse of life between pain and pleasure, happiness and sorrow, yin and yan. The song, though enamoring the senses with the playful backing synthesizer arpeggio, completely destroys the heart with the dauntingly deep lyrical content, guitar chords, as well as final guitar solo. Though some may say the song is too sorrowful, I reply – “the saddest music also tends to be the most beautiful.” With that said, the beauty knows no bounds in this particular track. Though the rest of Still Corners’ back catalogue brings more eclectic and synth heavy works, this song by far stands as their magnum opus. This track also takes me through a trip down memory lane, as it brings back a deja vu of lived experience. Memories passed, yet never forgotten.
Notable Lyrical Content
“The falling sun burns a lineTearing into the nightWatching you fall asleepThe sweetest dove in a dream.”
I feel creativity in the 21st century is marred by insecurity, incredulity, and a lack of imagination.
I’ve identified this as simply being the consequence of a world devoid of liberty. You can make something, sure, but creatives aren’t always in liberty to make the things they truly desire – due to a lack of monetary return. Take all the creativity human kind can muster, then concentrate it exponentially. Finally, compress it as much as possible into a platform, leveraged by the intense power of web3/ blockchain, and directed towards the further decimination of creativity and you arrive at Eden (in more ways than one). Whether we like it or not, our world runs on money, and if something can’t quite cross into the threshold of proper economic sustenance, it’s often dead on arrival. With Eden, freelance creatives will be granted the tools necessary to make their wildest dreams not only possible, but requited by the colder sneer of economic demand. Most creativity is kept at bay due to an improper sense of marketing, and proper marketing delivered only to those that have already proven their creations (in any liberal art, from sound all the way to vision) brings a sense of commodity. This creates a “chicken and egg” problem, in which one can’t quite get started with their fervent intentions unless someone gives them a much needed “quid pro quo”. Eden will take care of this very important step, and inspire further creation no thanks to the blisteringly intelligent technology at its core, as well as the genius minds that comprise its founding.
