“Playing music like this is always really fun. Conspire to Smile is an experiment to explicitly call on the inherently good qualities of musical lore to elevate social conversation and consciousness. Music has always been a sturdy social guide in that it implicitly conveys the best parts of our shared narrative, inclusivity, horizontal spirituality, and fun.
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Like the Flintstones cartoon’s freakishly strong child Bam Bam each of us is still figuring out how to wield the power of our individual social voice, often with unintended consequences. The media we create is not only a mode of communication but more profoundly it’s a permanent record of public opinion. For the first time in history we as individuals, are the authors of social structure and history.
It’s a tool or a toehold to help people move their own perspective and the shared story from paralysis to possibility. 'Conspire to Smile’ is the seed of a shared social sentiment.
“Social media is literally a form of socializing and storytelling through the creation of media.” Tribes, economies, co-ops, clubs, sculptures, social posts and of course songs all represent classes of story,” says Genauer. “Storytelling is the basic building block of our culture and humanity. A partial list (in alphabetical order): Aaron Maxwell, Adam Terrell, Alex Jordan, Andy Herrick, Dave Diamond, Elliott Peck, Erik Glockler, Grahame Lesh, Jason Crosby, Jennifer Hartswick, John Leccese, Jon Trafton, Jen Hartswick, LEBO, Luke Smith, Marc Friedman, Nate Wilson, Ryan Montbleau, Scott Law, Scott Metzger. He recruited all of his bandmates in Strangefolk and Assembly of Dust and other admired co-conspirators to collaborate on the project. It’s intended to harness the magnifying effect of social media to propagate positive social sentiment rather than pessimism. The Conspire To Smile album includes 12 retold covers and 2 original songs about compassion. Genauer was inspired to start Conspire To Smile as a way of helping solve what he calls “social media paralysis”, a negative social sentiment driven by the enormity of today’s world affairs and the propensity for social media to amplify shared stories.
The Conspire to Smile project is the brainchild of Reid Genauer singer, songwriter, and storyteller best known for his role in Strangefolk and Assembly of Dust. The project includes a studio album, social media thought experiment and Kickstarter campaign under the moniker “ Conspire to Smile” with the intent of kickstarting compassion, smiles and communal strength through song. A collective of two dozen musicians from the Jamband universe today announced a joint New Year’s Resolution to “Conspire to Smile” in 2018.
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