We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Duly Eldritch a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Duly thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?
The timing in which this is happening couldn’t be funnier to me. For roughly the last half year I’ve been displaced and haven’t had the space to make music or much art. That’s motivated (scared) me into taking an out-of-state job with a friend of mine. It’s an opportunity to make a good chunk of money, working a difficult job in a relatively small amount of time. Given the economic reality that myself and many people close to me have found ourselves in recently, this money made will give me enough leeway to set apart the time I’ve so desperately wanted to dedicate toward just making things. Right now, I’m currently in the planning process for that move. As far as how it turns out? I guess we’ll just have to see in about four months!
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
Hey, I’m Duly Eldritch. Born and raised in Hawaii. Currently living in Arizona. I love painting, graphic design, recording music and trying to run my clothing line. I have a website where I have those clothes and I’m working on getting my music and quality scans of my paintings on there too at some point. Otherwise you can find me popping in from time to time on Instagram to post anything new I make.
Since the last time we spoke I’ve changed the whole project name to Praise Noise. I felt that the irony of a name like “Jus de Pomme” only landed with an audience of one. So now it’s just blatantly pretentious. I wanted a name that’s easier to say, sounds cooler and kind of ambiguous with what it represents
As time has passed I’ve grown to be generally proud of the things I make and put out there. Most of all the people I consider myself close to. I do my best to not take any of those good things for granted, while also not allowing myself to get inflated on anything I do.
: Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?
A sense of fulfillment. Getting stoked. Staving off existential dread. Creating should be really cathartic. For the most part, it has been. At least for the time I happen to be doing it.
I also really want to get to a point where ego doesn’t affect what I choose to create. I want it to be for the sake of making something that I really enjoy. I want it to be exclusively for fun. Ideally with likeminded people around me doing the same thing. So and so over in the corner, messing around on a synth. Whatshername across the room, painting.
A multifaceted mission, I suppose. I believe these things are most definitely possible. Life has just done a good job interfering with that mission lately, but I won’t give up. I’m striving toward having a certain level of freedom where I can dedicate the majority of my effort, at least for a time, to my art and music.
Are there any books, videos, essays or other resources that have significantly impacted your management and entrepreneurial thinking and philosophy?
There’s a book by Melody Beattie called The Language of Letting Go. I’m no proponent of self-help books by any means, but this one was recommended during a time in my life where others more wise than myself suggested I take opposite action. Reading a spiritual book showing me my character defects and practical coping methods on the daily was definitely an opposite action to what I’d normally have done. It’s been really helpful and I’m grateful for it.
Ultimately I’m extremely lucky to have the friends and family that I do. They’re wise and they do their best to keep me accountable. Their input is what I give the most credence.
Contact Info:
- Website: praisenoise.net
- Instagram: Instagram.com/le_mr3000
- Other: SoundCloud.com/duly-eldritch