Photo by Peter Barreras
CRAIG WEDREN shares new single and video “You Are Not Your Feelings,” the latest single from his yearlong series of singles and videos, The Dream Dreaming. The series from the artist -- best known as the frontman for Washington, DC-based seminal post-hardcore band Shudder To Think and for his prolific career as a film and television composer -- allows Wedren to focus on a song and its visuals at the same time, candy flipping between the two as one informs the other.
“Growing up, my emotions ran the show. It was a revelation to me that my feelings could--and perhaps should--occupy the passenger’s seat (a vital navigator) with steadier hands and cooler heads at the wheel. Much of my young life was spent in Cleveland, Ohio, which has an emotional character unlike any other town I’ve encountered. Cleveland’s distinct feel forged, formed and fueled me and many of my closest friends. It was the frame within which we were defined, and still presides over my memories, emotions, and dreams even though I left when I was 16.”
“As I get older, and particularly during lockdown, dreams and memories can feel more real than life itself, possessing a dimension (maybe even multiple dimensions) that are less accessible during waking, conscious hours. The song and video for ‘You Are Not Your Feelings’ explores and expresses some of this, which I didn’t even fully realize until I started editing the video,” notes Wedren. “Part of the fun of making things is discovering almost retroactively what you we’e doing the whole time.”
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