You'll be fine

One of my favourite personalities around is Ze Frank, if you don’t know him you should check him out at zefrank.com. He approaches the web as a space for social experiments, and last year he had some interaction with a viewer/reader/fan who had their moment of melancholy and infinite sadness. His end result was no Billy Corgan, but the process he took to create the song are, well, awesome.

The fan wrote to him describing feelings of extreme sadness and depression. Ze had previously done a project where he asked for the passwords to a couple viewer’s facebook accounts and proceeded to pretend to be them for the next week or so, she was one of those viewers. This time around he recorded a simple sound bit with the word “hey, you’re okay, you’ll be fine, just breath.” He sent it out over the web in a discrete way, and asked people to listen to the track on their headphones while singing along on a recording device. He arranged these sound bits into a chorus and, after she thought he had forgotten about her, sent her this track.

I’m a bit of a nerd so the whole story seems cool to me, but I think anybody can see the humanity in that story and be inspired. Here is someone going out and orchestrating a collection of voices all to reach this woman, with no real relation to them, and let her know she is not alone.

After three paragraphs on one song let us move on.

This next one is just fun, I’ll leave it at that.

Check out the post from earlier today to hear the first ever Mixtape Collektive Presents! A little music written and recorded by non other than our own Rob J and Collektive Thought (don't worry, I'm not in it, your ears will be spared).

Little bit of self-promotion, now on Twitter, follow me at @JonahHG

You’re okay, just breathe.