Peter White. Available NOWHERE . . . it’s for the best . . . you don’t want this . . . prolonged exposure to the music of Peter White may produce a reflective state of mind . . . run now you fool! Ctrl alt del! Ctrl alt del! Ctrl alt del! • Peter White. Don’t be fooled by cheap imitations . . . actually, all we have are cheap imitations, we live in “Roman” age after all . . . beauty has been broken forever by reflectivity. Oh well, at least the price of technology continues to go down . . . • WARNING! If the music on this website makes contact with your ears, flush immediately with soapy water and odd time signatures. • Peter White. I’m lovin’ it! But then again, what is it to love? Can you really love music as much as a cheeseburger? a french fry? a delicious carbonated beverage? Please, for once, let’s be serious. • Peter White. Take one song daily for relief of existential angst and nihilistic tendencies. For more effective results, dialectically interiorize each dosage. Do not exceed the recommended dosage of Peter White music unless you want more. May cause illusionary feelings of utopian happiness and/or dogsbody blackmood and/or indifference and/or pain on urination. Use this music without caution and never at the recommended time. • Peter White! Register now! Become identical with Peter White! Be as Peter White without side effects or consequences! Why settle for a sheep named Dolly when you could be . . . Peter White! Void where human beings exist. Do not register more than once. Actually, do not register. Really, there is no registry. It’s a joke. Look, just take off eh? • Blessed are those with good taste for they shall avoid this website completely. I mean, really, the peterwhitearchive is the lowest form of creative expression ever devised, full of musical half-truths and wholesale poetical lies! Anyone with a sliver of sense would have gone elsewhere by now. Why are you still here? Do you really want to expose your ears to this toxic cremation of history’s remains? I mean, 30 000 odd years of human consciousness to reach this? Do yourself a favor and click your BACK button into the safety of something, anything but the nefarious sounds that lurk in the peterwhitearchive. Save yourself! It’s not too late! • Accolade: Did you know that Peter White was named honourary musical ambassador to the planet Pluto just before it was demoted to an object? • Accolade: Peter White has twice been nominated “Songwriter of the Year”, by a group of small children and their pets. He lost out to a stuffed animal named “Colon Cleanse” but, for a moment, it was really close. • Accolade: Peter White was the 2006 Obscuranta Festival’s Grand Prize Winner, voted eight times in a row “Most Likely to Remain Obscure”. Obscuranta is an imaginary festival whose judges are known to be corrupt and whose participants are rumoured to be fish without scruples.
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| The Blues Is A Lady (I'm Her Man) | lyrics | ||||
| You're So Real | lyrics | ||||
| Someday | lyrics | ||||
| Front Door Man | lyrics | ||||
| If You Were Mine | lyrics | ||||
| She Is Gone | lyrics | ||||
| Love Makes Me So Strange | lyrics | ||||
| One More Kiss | lyrics | ||||
| Take My Hand | lyrics | ||||
| Tell You What I Need | lyrics | ||||
| Where Does Love Come From | lyrics | ||||
| You Turn My Motor On | lyrics |
Logical Negativity came together very differently than the other 2006 project Right Now Is Forever 2006 which took five years to complete and involved twelve musicians in addition to myself. Logical Negativity took less than six months from start to finish and all the instruments, voices, drum programming, mixing and mastering was done by yours truly. Once I got going I was a bit like a dog let loose in the back yard after the endless painstaking work on Right Now Is Forever 2006. The one collaborator I had on this project for engineering and a host of intelligent insights and ideas was my thirteen year old son Josh who, to my continued wonderment, fear and joy, has also been bitten by the music bug. |
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The title of this project is not a phrase common to everyday speech. Logical what-a-be? Logical negativity is a phrase drawn from the work of the Jungian writer and analyst Wolfgang Giegerich. For a full explanation of the concept there is no substitute for his 1998 groundbreaking book The Soul’s Logical Life. To make do with a single quote we could say that logical negativity is that "in which we, as empirical personalities with our psychologies live as in the invisible element or medium of our existence." (p. 122, The Soul's Logical Life) In a word, logical negativity is soul. More to the point, logical negativity is soul once it has been sublated, which is to say, the creative image once it has been raised to the level of conscious thought. But if logical negativity or soul is the "invisible element or medium of our existence", how can we talk about it at all? Is this some trick of circular logic? Not at all. According to Giegerich’s theory, logical negativity is what is displayed in works of art. Art is the soul talking about itself or, perhaps better, the soul thinking itself. |
Works of the creating imagination are the soul’s display of itself in the form of images; the mental pictures, feelings, impressions, and states of mind produced in this case by music and words. Looking through eyes seasoned with Giegerich’s ideas we could say that nothing less than the whole spirit of our age is expressed in each one of these songs, elucidating that "invisible element or medium" during brief submersions of three to five minutes. This is not an ego claim. The songs on this recording are not the greatest music ever made, nor are they the worst. To describe the music as we are here doing is simply the admission that all works of the creating imagination are by definition that invisible "something" that lives us all; the soul, logical negativity. Why all this heavy thought for a bunch of pop songs? I have never been able to accept that music, even pop songs, were just "fluff", a bit of ear candy to sweeten the bitterness of routine daily drudgery. On the other hand, I could never accept that pop songs were all about me, as if "I" were that important in the larger scheme of things. This led to the riddle, "What is all this creativity about?" Some people do not want to know what songs are about. I want to know. I have an insatiable appetite for it. Jungian psychology has taught me that nothing is just what appears to be but that everything carries its hidden inner contradiction. Furthermore, that works of the creative imagination are the display of that inner secret, "hidden" out in the open for all to see. So here they are. Twelve songs for this age as for no other; the thoughts lurking about in the back of the collective mind laid bare for all to see. Logical negativity. | |
| Coke Oven Joe and Sue Ste. Marie ![]() 1990 |
Back Roads ![]() 1991 |
Right Now Is Forever ![]() 1995 |
The Fates ![]() 2002 |
Guitar Solos ![]() 2004 |
Right Now Is Forever 2006 2006 |
Logical Negativity 2007 |
Syzygy![]() 2009 |







