Am I Running A Script

by E.J. Gold

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54 Songs (mp3)
Lyrics
liner notes (pdf)
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About the Album

The song "Am I Running A Script" E.J. Gold wrote and originally used as the audio bed for a video of the same title. His vocalist, an animated street-wise punk girl decorated with tattoos, was so sincere in her query that the song immediately caught one's attention. And notably, it triggered self-reflection for many listeners.

However, several months elapsed before Gold expanded the song into an album that could be used for the experiment suggested in this excerpt from his blog on "Music Medicine."

Blog excerpt below:

Every track, every variation, every arrangement — no matter the style — is part of the same experiment. What does this do?

That’s the question behind everything. ... What effect does it have?

Does it lift you? Does it calm you? Does it focus your attention? Does it open something? Does it change your sense of time, even slightly?

Because that’s what music does, whether we think about it or not. A blues track, a chant, a psychedelic wash, a barbershop quartet, a country tune — each one carries a different kind of influence. A different kind of movement in the nervous system.

What we’re doing now is becoming aware of that — and starting to use it deliberately. So when you hear 40 or 50 or more versions of the same piece, or entire albums built from variations, it’s not just creative exploration. It’s testing.

Each version is a slightly different formulation. Change the tempo, the instrumentation, the tonal center, the texture — and the effect shifts. Sometimes subtly. Sometimes dramatically.

And after a while, something interesting happens. You stop hearing it as style. You start hearing it as function.

You begin to notice what stays the same across all versions, and what actually makes the difference. That’s where the real learning is....

"Music Medicine?" was published March 21, 2026 on Gold's blog site Gorebagg's World.

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