Today we’d like to introduce you to Julian Pacella.
Hi Julian, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I started making art and music as a young kid. Always in the back of class doodling and picking up the violin at age 9. I took a lot of art and music classes throughout my schooling, and was part of a band in high school that played shows at local venues. I went on to get a degree in music production in my 20s after a few years noodling around with DAWs, and after I graduated I’ve gone on to produce multiple albums and have done plenty of commercial work. I also started taking painting fairly serious alongside my music post graduation, making paintings to go along with my music ideas. I ended up having so much art laying around I started vending at local events to sell it off. A lot of my current art involves repurposing scrap materials or refurbishing thrifted goods. I currently play in a medieval death-grind band, and am continuing on with my electronic fantasy opera under my producer name Lord_Bearington.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
My life has always been a pile of chaos. Things seem to be stabilizing more and more, but I have sacrificed a lot to be where I am today. I suffer from multiple neurological disorders. I’ve had my bouts with mental health struggles, both personally and close friends and family/ bandmates. It’s never an easy road to walk, essentially juggling hats you have to don at a moments notice while you deal with the fallout of existing. Theres always financial and timing setbacks as well, and when the pabdemic hit in 2020 the band I was in essentially just fell apart right as we were gearing up to record a second album. An electronic music collective I was playing shows with at the time also ended up migrating away to chicago.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My art and music are very maximalist, detail oriented, and have a lot of psychedelic influence. From a young age I have experienced synesthesia, which enables me to create very deep abstractions both in my music and art. My music is mostly conceptual and story driven, with my personal music being a narrative about a sentient bear and my band, Tormentous, has a somewhat slice of life focus on a low fantasy world we call The Tormented Lands.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
I was the weird kid on the playground roleplaying with my friends who you could pay a dollar to watch me eat a worm. I was a bit of a handful, I ran away a lot when I was really young and thought I was Kevin from Home Alone. When I was 3 I stole the family van and crashed it into our neighbors garage door. But I was always polite and made friends pretty easy, my friends parents liked me a lot.
Pricing:
- Most of my music is free on bandcamp
- I don’t set hard prices, typically. I like to talk with buyers to gauge intention, and I like to sell my art for good deals. I would rather it be in your home than cluttering my studio space.
- Any freelance audio or composition work is billed 40$ an hour, but larger projects are always up for negotiation.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lord.bearington?igsh=MWE5dzUxOXBkeXF6Zw==
- Other: https://lordbearington.bandcamp.com
