Albums by X. J. Scott

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Dear Maria,
I produced a CD of my music for a big tea party I gave for my birthday. The last track, a sort of 88-cent ET dance piece, was well-liked by Miller and by Barb’s German artist friend. Each guest brought examples of their art work which was really very exciting and fun for me. Everyone else found the piece horribly dissonant and gratingly unpleasant. I find it to be happy and joyful, full of hope for the future; you just have to listen. The tea party was held on the 11th anniversary of the last time I had tea with Mullighana. The date of the party, January 13th, was picked by the mysterious woman mentioned in item 13 above, although she had no idea of the significance. But did she have the same birthday as I? Yes, she did. 13 people came to the party. The tea party 11 years ago was the end of Darkness and the beginning of Limbo. The tea party this year marked the end of the period of Limbo and the beginning of the period of Light. Shortly after the party, all these things I have spoken of began to fall into place rather rapidly, for which I am extremely grateful.  — Jeff

Track List

1. Beauty — natural state
   this is how I am. written very late when tweaky caffeinated and deep distress causing melancholy peace that allows the truth to bubble up laziily like oxygen from a rainforest and then expand and fill like oxygen in a vacuum. all is well. things will work out. there is a plan.


2. Disturbance — unnatural ways
   this the propagandas uniform brainwash bureaucracy experience of the University. rum rum pum, then do lee diddle dah. all day long followed by nights in a crowded filthy basement lab full of truck exhaust punding away at the keys.


3. Relaxation — a time to reflect
   afterwards, shock, pause, time to contemplate and have experiences. reading ancient, now unfamiliar journals of hopes and dreams — who is the person who wrote these bizarre words? having become practicallated,; it begins to begun undone as reality returns, illusions dispelled. I remember who I am as my absentee soul finds a home to return to.


4. Frentica — God’s Light Within
   a prediction of the future, now known to be perfectly and precisely accurate — once again.

Comments made at Tea Party 13 This album contains my very first composition using a nonoctave tuning — Frentica. Many artists attended, and some chose to exhibit their works during the high tea.     “I like it very much. It is full of hope. It is a transition from darkness into light.”   — X. J. Scott     “I love Disturbance. It is exactly like my day-to-day life. I don’t like Frentica nearly as much. Your music always trips me out.”   — Barbara, artist, real estate agent, and industrial designer responsible for Karm-Away.         “Frentica is outstanding. This music is too innovative, too experimental for UCSD. The other tracks I don’t care for.”   — Dr. Miller Puckette, musical meta-instrument designer, computer music researcher, inventor of first graphical programming language for musical signal processing.

Why it happened

This CD was created to commemorate an important event — the transition of my life from skotia (darkness and obscurity) to phos (light). I gave a high tea on January 13, 1996 — near my birthday. Of the score of people invited, 13 showed up. The party was on the 11th anniversary of the last time I had high tea at the house of my English teacher, Mullighana. That party is pictured on the cover. All in all, many things came together and synchronicity — which is usually a message — is worth celebrating.