WCS Art and Design

06/25/2025

Thesaurusize me
how haiku is too haiku
spring, hope, play onwards.

06/23/2025

STARVING BUT NOT HUNGRY
It scares me to undramatic tears how much I relate to the clarity of DFW's entire paradigm of sociocultural x artistic awareness and creative ambitions, but also to the near exhaustion caused by their core desire to attempt to deliver an almost prismatic precision with every worthwhile facet granted a seat and a shiny-tined fork.

David Kipen interviews David Foster Wallace in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures in 2004 - audio only.Taken from here:http://www.scpr.org/programs/madel...

06/04/2025

WILD AWAY
The diminutive but charming firepit-centric gathering space in the rear garden of this private residence, with soft warm pebbles under bare feet and set at a poetically appropriate distance from the house, is a place designed to support real conversation as much as intimate reflection, and it has once again transformed come late spring.

05/02/2025

'THE BRACELET'
Things get very strange, very quickly, for a questionably sane individual on an average day.

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

OTHER 3844 WORKS/PROFILES
The Planets
https://soundcloud.com/3844theplanets

Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844mfam

ROY G BIV
https://soundcloud.com/3844roygbiv

[These compositions were written/engineered to take advantage of the unique aural experience of the private listening environment, headphones/earbuds recommended.]

CALL
If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live performance, video/film/commercial, website, fashion show, special gathering/party/celebration or you have an idea for a composition that you'd like to see come to fruition for fun or otherwise, please contact me... I'd be honored to work with you.

[email protected]

PHOTO
Christopher Hydinger

© 2025 WCS Art and Design

04/28/2025

NEW
Short stories over scores as well as solely scores, most are ultimately intended for use during Psych Horror art-theater performances.

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

OTHER ALBUMS
The Planets
Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
ROY G BIV

(headphones recommended)


-theater

CALL If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live performance, video/film/commercial, website, fashion show, special gathering/party/celebration or you have an idea for a composit

04/23/2025

Preston Singletary (L) and Garth Stein (R) at the opening for the new Traver Gallery in Seattle. A sincerely incredible building x facility that doubtless will quickly become a sociocultural hub for the greater arts community.

04/21/2025

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

ROY G BIV is the second concept album resulting from this exploration. This album features seven compositions, each based on my feelings and ideas about the seven colors in the human visible light spectrum, and was on/off composed between 2019-2025.

INSPIRATION
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

OTHER 3844 WORKS/PROFILES
The Planets
https://soundcloud.com/3844theplanets

Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
https://soundcloud.com/3844mfam

Stories & Scores
https://soundcloud.com/3844storiesandscores

[These compositions were written/engineered to take advantage of the unique aural experience of the private listening environment, headphones/earbuds recommended.]

CALL
If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live performance, video/film/commercial, website, fashion show, special gathering/party/celebration or you have an idea for a composition that you'd like to see come to fruition for fun or otherwise, please contact me... I'd be honored to work with you.

[email protected]

© 2025 WCS Art and Design

04/18/2025

ABOUT
3844 (pronounced 'thirty-eight, forty-four') is my outlet for the compositional concepts that I’ve had floating in my head for many years. Some complex, some simple... but until I explored composition software applications, I didn’t have an artistically or technically viable means to manifest any of them.

ROY G BIV is the second concept album resulting from this exploration. This album features seven compositions, each based on my feelings and ideas about the seven colors in the human visible light spectrum, and was on/off composed between 2019-2025.

OTHER 3844 ALBUMS/WORKS
The Planets
Music for Active Meditation (ongoing)
Stories & Scores (ongoing)

PROFILE PHOTO
John Hydinger

NEXT PERF N/A ONGOING PERF N/A SCHEDULING [email protected] VIDEO WORK SAMPLE N/A CALL If you are interested in an original piece for your project, live perf

03/23/2025

JAMES X ORBITUARY
A poetic and elegantly charged reimagining of an already enchanting and sensitively transposed song, paired with a floor-drop narrative video spotlighting the potential human experience with all its similarities and cycles as they're currently known.

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MUSIC
HooRayGun x 3844

Lyrics and original song by An Invitation to Love; piano interpretation, vocals and original recording of piano and voice by HooRayGun; arrangement, mixing and all non-piano music by 3844.

(headphones recommended)

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VIDEO
P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories

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INFO
An Invitation to Love
https://aitl.bandcamp.com/album/boxcar

HooRayGun
https://hooraygun.bandcamp.com

3844
https://soundcloud.com/3844theplanets
https://soundcloud.com/3844mfam

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MUSICHooRayGun x 3844(Lyrics and original composition by An Invitation to Love; piano interpretation and original recording by HooRayGun; arrangement, mixing...

03/08/2025

RELEVANT AF
“The truth is, sometimes there is the need to put a thing out of its own misery… and sometimes there is the need to put a thing out of everything else’s misery.”

(From my forthcoming short story, ‘Heal’.)

10/13/2024

WSB took the time to highlight my new mural, which was kind of them. If you'd like to experience it and want a personal tour, email me to schedule a day/time to make that happen.

Before getting into the news of the day ... an art break. We don't often get news releases from artists announcing new murals. For this one, we did. Artist Christopher Hydinger has added that mural to those already on the wall along the alley leading south from SW Dawson behind Rite Aid; we went ove...

10/09/2024

SELF DEFENSE
This is my new pro-environmental mural, 'Breaking News: Alien Messiah Engages Portal, Presses Delete' at West Seattle's world-class art alley West Side Wall (located behind the Rite Aid at 5217 California Ave SW 98136). Installed at the north end of the alley, this large-scale drawing created using only small paint pens took over 65 hours to complete and vibrantly visualizes in great detail the absurdity of a Messiah coming to Save Us illustrated through the comically dramatic lens of an Alien Messiah at the moment they have decided to press the Delete button.

"Compositionally, the viewer is able to enjoy the expansive view through the Portal and into the Universe of the Alien Messiah, but because the floating Delete button (designed using the principles of chromostereopsis to create a no-glasses-needed 3D illusion) has been oriented facing the Alien Messiah (all "recycle" icons feature arrows pointing clockwise), this also gives the viewer the physical sensation of simultaneously inhabiting the inside of something while also looking out from it (a world inside a box, a cage, a computer, a more expansive ecosystem). Combined with the larger-than-life presence of the beautiful but intimidating Alien Messiah and the ominously designed Delete button, this is intended to create an unsettlingly eerie shock. But hopefully this shock will inspire a deeply motivating pro-environmental perspective to emerge. And just in time for Halloween!"

"This work needed to be in the public eye, accessible, not bottled up in a gallery, big, bold, with a pinch of comedy and completely unafraid to spotlight the truth. The truth that I've tried to extremely vibrantly illustrate? We genuinely must focus on working to Save ourselves, each other and the only planet we have. No one and nothing is going to do it for us."

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WCS Art and Design is a cross-disciplinary venture with experience in landscape design and gardening, graphic design, music composition and performance, brand/concept authoring, writing, product design, clothing/costume design, photography, video, drawing, painting, sculpture, environment design and art-based event/media production under P.I.L.L. Interactive Liminal Laboratories.