Hace unos John Frusciante declaraba en Electronic Beats que se cerraba a «grabar música para nadie en concreto» o incluso «compartirla con su audiencia», argumentando incluso que no tenía una audiencia concreta.
Ahora, el músico ha publicado material inédito, subiéndolo a Bandcamp, y a través de un comunicado expuesto en su página web Frusciante explica lo que a priori parecía un acto contradictorio. En el comunicado, el músico aclara sentido de estas declaraciones, sosteniendo que fueron malinterpretadas.
«I also must clear something up. I normally don’t read my press, but I heard about this quote, recently taken out of context by some lame website and made into a headline, in which I said “I have no audience”. This has been misinterpreted, and by no fault of the excellent journalist who interviewed me for the fine publication Electronic Beats. Ever since I quit my old band in 2008, I have made music specifically to learn and to make the music which I want to hear, without an audience in mind. Nevertheless, between 2008 and 2013, every time I recorded a track, I sent it to Aaron Funk and Chris McDonald who are my Speed Dealer Moms bandmates, and often to a few other friends. Early on in this period, I realized that whoever I sent my music to or played my music for had become my “audience”, ie the people who I aimed my music at»
Yendo más allá en cuanto a estas reflexiones, Frusciante habla sobre lo que considera vender o dar arte. Aquí os dejamos otro interesante fragmento donde reflexiona sobre ello:
«When someone releases music on a label, they are selling it, not giving it. Art is a matter of giving. If I sing my friend a song, it goes from me to her, at no cost. That’s giving. If I sell you an object, we do not say that I gave you that object. Recording artists have been “giving” the public music by selling it to them for so long that we now think of sell-outs as dedicated musicians who love their audience so much that they aggressively sell them products, and sell themselves as an image and personality to this audience on a regular basis just as aggresively. Sell-outs is an antiquated term which, when I was a kid, referred to artists who love making money more than they love making music. The word indicated a lack of artistic integrity. Sell-outs suck, in my opinion. Its a shame its become so normal, expected, and acceptable to be one. When I was a teenager it was very common for people who loved music to insult a recording artist for being, or becoming, a sell-out. I believe that this was a very healthy instinct on the part of music lovers»
Entre el material que Frusciante ha subido a su Bandcamp oficial se encuentra una pieza instrumental grabada en 2013 con Omar-Rodríguez López (The Mars Volta) de Fight For Love, theme de la película Casa de Mi Padre; Medre, un tema grabado en 2008; y una versión de Zone del album Enclosure. Por otro lado se encuentra una una colección de seis canciones grabadas en un cuatro pistas en 2010, y un sample de 20 minutos de Sect In Sgt.
Frusciante ha dejado caer que puede que suba más música en un futuro.
