tldr; I was rewatching evangelion with my muse of a girlfriend who said that shinji ikari must be listening to some genre called gronglecore. because I commit to the bit I made the first grongle track for them as a joke.
because my workload has considerably increased since I became a scientist, I don't have that much time/energy left in the day to make high production value music. gronglecore eventually became a way for me to just...make something. I am making violently ugly art because I must create.
eventually some things clicked and it stopped being a joke to me.
there is a societal pressure to make marketable, "desireable" art. not only does that hurt artists who feel like they can't live up to that standard, but also turns art on a societal level into a money making machine. I think a lot about how "ai hands" etc. are treated as something to optimize out of the algoritm, because all they see is a tool to automate the creation of "desireable" images.
I want gronglecore to be the polar opposite; fucking ugly slop I hope no one profits from. It's something that has helped me stop caring about making "good" music. the strange flaws are integral to the experience, not something that detract from it. the important part is that I make it from earnest passion for the medium, not irony.
gronglecore is also a very honest expression of myself, as it's something based on pure stream of consciousness. it's whatever crosses my mind when I make it. I'm very curious how similar art from other artists would look like since gronglecore is so heavily influenced by my brain.