Life & Work with Chris Avetta

Today we’d like to introduce you to Chris Avetta.

Chris, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I gravitated toward visual art when I was very young and have been exploring different mediums for as long as I can remember. As far as music, I started playing much later than most folks that know their way around any instrument, but I’ve always been a singer.

I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
I think a bumpy road comes with the territory if you’re being authentic while trying something that feels unique. I’m never holding out for universal popularity and I have thicker skin about criticism now, but I wasn’t always like that. So I’d say one struggle has been the balancing act of staying sensitive for the sake of creativity while closing off emotions to things that don’t serve the purpose of growth. I have to remind myself that creating art and music is the point, any recognition is a wonderful bonus, but I can’t pretend it wouldn’t be nice to be a part of an economy that more readily understood the necessity and value of human expression.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am an artist, musician, writer, and accidental comedian. I’ve been working with two-dimensional mediums for as long as I can remember and I began pursuing music in a more serious sense just over ten years ago.

I only picked up guitar as a means to be able to sing. Something about expressing like that is so satisfying to me. Maybe it’s just a physiological, some sort of ASMR thing. I know that’s a big reason I love to oil paint. In that practice, I gravitate toward ethereal realism and enjoy making pieces that are more of an echo of the subject.

My music tends to have that same dream-like quality to it. Multiple harmonies over simple progressions hypnotic repetition, spacey tones alongside a driving beat, all while circling some meaning relative to my own experience or some narrative I’ve conjured up based on those experiences.

What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
I think there will be some significant changes in what everyone has the means to produce on their own and making a decent living wage as an artist or musician will be much more rare. If everyone continues on this road to immediate satisfaction with 20 seconds of content to make a buck then people who are not as thoughtful with their work will probably strike gold with a well-done piece of social media and it will be even more difficult to find something meaningful in art than it already is.

When I stifle my pessimism however, I can imagine that constrictions on what it takes to support oneself with art or music could potentially weed out people that aren’t serious about what they do, while opening a space for those with truly unique perspectives and happen to be more pleasant to work with. I hold out hope for the latter even if I’m not quite ready to hold my breath.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.Themorningroommusic.com
• Instagram: Instagram.com/chrisavetta
• Facebook: Facebook.com/Chrisavetta
• Twitter: Twitter.com/chrisavetta
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@themorningroommusic
• SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/T3BQJe275FPgQPFz5
• Other: Instagram.com/Themorningroommusic

Image Credits
Beau Austin Leslie Anne Harris Ryan King Jennifer Brown Ricky Bantog