We recently connected with Jordan Pries and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Jordan thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

The process of learning “the craft” came from discipline. However, there was no one to discipline me but myself. I was my own drill sergeant and private first class. The practice came from communication with my partner Jessica, who co-owns Electric Kitsch (our record store), and my friend, business partner, executive producer, and guide, Mitch Anderson. I would then take my communication with them, as well from the outside world I interact with, and turn that into musical, or sonic expression. I would love to say that I am a musician, but I generally follow no musical “rules”, therefore I might qualify as a “sound artist”.

Even at this point, each day is an experiment. I want to visit the unknown inside of my mind every day. I see no point in stopping. It is about searching, isn’t it? I wanted to find something new every time I went to create. However, I also had to realize that this could be a dangerous spot to be in, hitting a wall. But in my mind I said there will be no walls. If there is one,
pound it down until it is dust, and then continue. The human mind is by far the most advanced thing on the planet, that we know of. No computer, no effect pedal, no machine more advanced. This is why when people have children it is called “reproducing”, because as humans, we cannot actually “produce” humans. We have no idea how WE were created, we can only REPLICATE it.

There is no speeding up the process. That is like asking for time travel. I find this question very difficult. It’s like, if the artist could have “sped” something up, or “bypassed” an obstacle, you are literally taking a chunk of the artistic process out of the equation. Perhaps we must go through these trivial things, learn things that seem benign, deal with uncomfortable situations, but all of those things are used in what helps me do what I do. Each process is its own thing, its own timeline. And I allow each one to play out as it should.

The only thing that ever stood in the way of me learning anything was myself. And it still is. I control what I want to input, and output. Sometimes both of them drive me to wanting to quit it all, but I believe that is not an option.

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

There are two sides to me, for sure. Does everyone want to know what is happening inside my head, absolutely not. There may actually be only one person who can see what is in there, and keep his cool. The craft of creating sounds seemed to be the only option for me. I felt that no matter what was happening, if I could make interesting sounds, somewhere, then everything would be OK. Words fell apart for me during high school, which is why I believe I began to study etymology. I wanted to find where words have their origin. In many ways it made me ever more closed off to vocal communication, because, well, basically none of know what these words mean that we use each day. That may sound glaringly over confident, down right stupid, but I don’t care, at all, that is the truth. And I try to “un learn” these words each “dey”. The land of America has a very long list of languages, dating back to ages of antiquity. Most of these languages were communicated by drumming, and only people who possessed the dexterity and knowledge of this type of drumming language, could decipher it, and speak it. Morse code stole directly from this language. However, drumming patterns, rudiments, paradiddles, all building blocks of a language, a form of high level communication, these messages have been passed down, and are being passed down, for certain ones to decipher. And they will keep getting passed down until it is decoded. Think of the song the lyric “the age of Aquarius”, it is written, as the Sun (Son) entered Aquarius (the SUN is no longer in Pisces, which is why you see the symbol of the FISH (Pisces) represented as “Jesus”) some 120 years ago, the knowledge is being poured down upon us all. Soak it up.

I am here to communicate an Esoteric (“dead”) language to my “clients”. This means I do not speak verbally to them. They only listen to my sonic sounds, which represents my communication to them. Words get lost, but these sounds, I can feel someone emotionally, and create it sonically.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

The freedom to create exactly what I intend.

How did you build your audience on social media?

I have zero social media presence, it is the exact opposite of any sort of model you would see today. I can’t remember the last time I posted anything. I tried once, and I sat there for a long, long time, and I said “no”. I just wasn’t going to do it. If you want to talk to me, you can get in touch with me. I use the FM airwaves, conferences, shows, and sheer insanity to meet people.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.sourceoflightandpower.com
• Other: www.arcofall.com

Image Credits
Spencer Isberg Jordan C Pries Mitch Anderson