A father’s Alzheimer’s disease directly catalyzed an artist’s memory-collage music

Evidence

In an interview with Joakim Norling for Friendly Noise magazine, Position Normal’s Chris Bailiff has said that the roots of the PN sound lay in his father’s Alzheimer’s disease. ‘My dad went into hospital and had to sell the family home, I had to move out and whilst doing this I found so many old records of his and records that he bought for me. Nursery rhymes, documentaries and jazz. I didn’t want to throw anything away so took them with me. I started to listen to all of them and recorded on to tape my favourite sounds and made incredibly varied mix tapes. I then edited them down and down until there were what I suppose are called samples.’ It’s as if Bailiff was simultaneously attempting to simulate Alzheimer’s and counteract it. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 344

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Musicians can channel childhood turbulence into indie art indelibly — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 324; Priming living-abroad memory causally raises creative performance.

Broader Connections

• Priming living-abroad memory causally raises creative performance. #corroborates (0.72)