翻译：
立体主义城堡永远：在庆祝奥利维亚Tremor Control新专辑发行的这一天，我深感心碎，宣布我亲爱的朋友、Elephant 6 Recording Co.联合创始人W.Cullen Hart（Will to his friends）今天早上因自然原因突然、平和地去世，在两首新OTC歌曲发行前后心情非常愉快。
威尔是一位天才的实验和迷幻流行音乐家，一位才华横溢、多产的视觉艺术家，他每天每时每刻都在触手可及的每一件物品上绘制和制作拼贴艺术。从我们十几岁起，他就是一个终身的四重追踪者、磁带录音者、自发诗人、声音拼贴建设者、乐器解构主义者，也是一位非常有才华的流行歌曲作曲家。在见到威尔之前，我就听说了他，一位普通的朋友告诉我，“你和威尔·哈特完全一样！”（我们都很活泼，声音也很大。）我在中学时从乔·福尔曼那里借了一盘《吻王朝》的录音带，知道它是威尔借给乔伊的，我很喜欢它。威尔和我随后在一场廉价把戏音乐会上认识了，由一位普通朋友（也是我们俩未来的乐队成员）杰夫·曼古姆介绍，成为了年轻的音乐竞争对手，然后成为了最亲密的朋友。几年后，我确实归还了王朝的磁带。
威尔与奥利维亚·特雷默控制乐队的比尔·多斯（我与他共同制作）共同领导，循环系统乐队的乐队指挥，也是20世纪90年代末在佐治亚州雅典爆发的大象6艺术社区的精神领袖。他是我十几岁和二十出头时的犯罪搭档，我亲爱的朋友、室友、乐队成员，我们一生都在追求一种艺术和音乐的愿景，直到今天，我们还是孩子的时候一起孵化出来的。威尔非常健谈，非常有趣，非常有表现力，非常有创造力。他精力充沛、甜美、温柔、认真，时而完全冷静，时而完全爆发。威尔患有多发性硬化症近二十年，这逐渐降低了他的行动能力、弹吉他的能力和巡演的能力，但他保持了生产力、歌曲创作、录音和艺术，并在一种高度创造力的状态下生活。他受到了我、他的乐队成员以及大象6号和雅典社区的无限爱戴。
我对失去朋友感到震惊。今天，我向威尔致敬，填补了他的一段传奇。2012年，当奥利维亚·特雷默控制乐队的联合指挥比尔·多斯（Bill Doss）去世时，OTC正在全力录制一张史诗般的新概念专辑，比尔和才华横溢的德里克·阿尔姆斯特德（Derek Almsted）共同设计和组装了这张雄心勃勃的双专辑。比尔家工作室的墙上挂着一张图表，上面写满了抽象诗歌和箭头，据说这是专辑的地图。我签约帮助完成制作，然后搬到亚特兰大埃默里大学读数学研究生。计划是：在雅典度过周末，直到记录完成。我听了所有的混音，复习了比尔和威尔的录音室笔记，我们有一个完成的计划。但不幸的是，我搬到亚特兰大的那个周末是比尔去世的那个周末，也是我们搬进来的那天。他完全投入到了新的OTC记录中，充满了灵感，我们都发誓要完成这项工作。但悲伤让我们倒退了好几年。它让我停滞不前。“比尔去山里了，”威尔说。
即使在悲伤中，威尔也永远不会失去对他和比尔共同创作的杰作的关注。他保持了愿景和概念的新鲜感。但他不是工作室工程师，患有MS，所以他真的需要整个村庄来支持这项工作。在拍摄《大象6》纪录片期间，C.B.Stockfleth来到雅典，威尔对再次参与OTC工作越来越充满热情。我们在音乐家工程师Jason NeSmith的家庭工作室安排了一次会议，开始填写必要的补唱，并期待完成一首或多首OTC曲目。两首歌，“光之花园”（比尔的歌）和“同一个地方”（威尔的歌），都快完成了，所以我们专注于这些，并完成了比尔最初任务清单中的多余部分，加上威尔和我监督的一些新作品。这是一个巨大的努力，整个乐队都来了，我的姐夫和合作者克雷格·莫里斯来帮助工程师，我们感到一种巨大的动力。这在电影中捕捉得非常好，这是一次非常感人的录音体验。即便如此，悲伤和混乱使从那里开始变得困难。仅仅完成这两首歌就花费了数年时间。
与威尔、比尔以及设计了基本曲目并为OTC专辑做了大量工作的德里克一起，杰森·内史密斯是完成这两首OTC歌曲的英雄。杰森和威尔一起混音了这两首歌，把混音发给我征求意见，然后开始在其他未完成的OTC曲目上取得进展。多亏了杰森，威尔获得了动力
原文：
Cubist Castle Forever: I am deeply heartbroken on this day of celebration of a new Olivia Tremor Control release, to announce that my dear friend and Elephant 6 Recording Co. co-founder, W. Cullen Hart (Will to his friends), passed away this morning of natural causes, suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the release of the two new OTC songs.
Will was a genius experimental and psychedelic pop musician, a brilliant and prolific visual artist who sketched and made collage art every second of every day, on every object within reach. He was a lifelong four-tracker, tape looper, spontaneous poet, sound collage constructor, deconstructionist of musical instruments, and a very talented composer of pop songs since we were teenagers. I heard about Will before I met him, a common friend told me, “You and Will Hart are exactly alike!” (We were both very animated and loud.) I borrowed a cassette copy of Kiss Dynasty from Joey Foreman – future projectionist for the OTC – in middle school, knowing it had been loaned to Joey by Will, and loved it. Will and I subsequently met at a Cheap Trick concert, introduced by a common friend (and future bandmate to both of us) Jeff Mangum, and became youthful competitors in music, and then the closest of friends. I did return the Dynasty tape some years later.
Will was co-leader with Bill Doss of the Olivia Tremor Control (whom I co-produced), bandleader of the Circulatory System, and was the spiritual leader of the Elephant 6 art community that exploded in Athens, Georgia, in the late 1990s. He was my partner in crime in our teens and early twenties, my dear friend, roommate, bandmate, and we pursued a vision of art and music together our whole lives, to this very day, that we hatched as children – together. Will was infinitely chatty, infinitely funny, infinitely expressive, infinitely creative. He was energetic, sweet, tender, earnest, alternately totally chill and totally explosive. Will suffered from multiple sclerosis for almost two decades, which gradually reduced his mobility, his ability to play guitar, and his ability to tour – but he kept up his productivity, his songwriting, his recording and his art, and lived life in a state of heightened creativity. He was infinitely loved by me, and by his bandmates and the Elephant 6 and Athens communities.
I am in shock at the loss of my friend. I honor Will today, by filling in a piece of his legend. When Olivia Tremor Control co-leader Bill Doss – also my dear friend and Apples in stereo bandmate – passed away in 2012, the OTC were in full-swing recording an epic new concept album, with Bill and talented Derek Almsted working together to engineer and assemble the ambitious double album. On Bill’s home studio wall was a chart filled with abstract poetry and arrows, that was supposedly a map to the album. I signed on to help finish the production – and I was moving to Atlanta for math graduate school at Emory. The plan was: weekends in Athens until the record was done. I heard all the rough mixes, went over studio notes of Bill and Will, and we had a plan to finish. But tragically, the weekend I moved to Atlanta was the weekend that Bill died, the very day we moved in. He was completely invested in the new OTC record and filled with inspiration, and we all vowed to finish the work. But grief held us back for years. It holds me back still. “Bill has gone to the mountains,” Will said.
Will never lost focus, even in his grief, on the masterpiece he and Bill had started. He kept the vision and the concept fresh. But he is not a studio engineer and had debilitating MS so he really needed the whole village to support the effort. During the filming of the Elephant 6 documentary, C. B. Stockfleth was coming to Athens and Will had become increasingly passionate to work on the OTC again. We set up a session at musician-engineer Jason NeSmith’s home studio to start to fill in the necessary overdubs and look toward finishing one or more OTC tracks. Two songs, “Garden of Light” (Bill’s song) and “The Same Place” (Will’s song), were almost done so we focused on those, and got the overdubs finished from Bill’s original task list, plus a few new pieces with Will and me overseeing. It was a huge effort, the whole band came in to play, my brother-in-law and collaborator Craig Morris came in to help engineer, and we felt a sense of great momentum. This is captured really nicely in the film, it was a very moving recording experience. Even so, grief and disorganization made proceeding hard from there. It took years just to finish the two songs.
Along with Will and Bill, and Derek who engineered the basic tracks and had done much work on the OTC album, Jason NeSmith is the hero of the finishing of the two OTC songs. Jason and Will worked together on mixing the two songs, sending mixes back and forth to me for comment, and then started to make progress towards other unfinished OTC tracks. Thanks to Jason, Will gained momentum, and new enthusiasm, and their studio collaboration blossomed over the last two years, even with MS affecting Will’s mobility more and more – he pushed forward to the finish happily, bravely. I am so thankful to Derek and to Jason for their engineering work on the final OTC album. May the history of this classic band record the vital role each of them played as partners to Bill and to Will. And Kelly Hart, Will’s wife and his co-manager of the rebooted Elephant 6 label, is the hero of bringing the songs into the world. These beautiful songs – perhaps among the best psychedelic pop songs ever recorded – exist today, they are on BandCamp and on the E6 documentary vinyl LP that came out today, and Kelly told me that this morning Will was excited and happy to see people were downloading it. Today is a day of victory for W. Cullen Hart – his last day represented a triumph. Today is the day that Will’s perseverance, his sincerity, his struggle with MS, and his devotion to Bill and their common vision, bears fruit.
My dear friend, my brother, my co-conspirator, my E6 co-founder, I have always loved you and will always love you with the same intensity I had when we were young. You were so amazing, I can’t even believe you existed. I will miss your love and your humor and your energy and your brilliance forever. I will endeavor to help your bandmates finish your work, and I will forever be grateful for your friendship and your love – my sweet friend and my greatest artistic influence. May your journey to the mountains be beautiful.
[Pictured: Will, me and our good friend Mike Owens in the Ruston High School yearbook]
立体主义城堡永远：在庆祝奥利维亚Tremor Control新专辑发行的这一天，我深感心碎，宣布我亲爱的朋友、Elephant 6 Recording Co.联合创始人W.Cullen Hart（Will to his friends）今天早上因自然原因突然、平和地去世，在两首新OTC歌曲发行前后心情非常愉快。
威尔是一位天才的实验和迷幻流行音乐家，一位才华横溢、多产的视觉艺术家，他每天每时每刻都在触手可及的每一件物品上绘制和制作拼贴艺术。从我们十几岁起，他就是一个终身的四重追踪者、磁带录音者、自发诗人、声音拼贴建设者、乐器解构主义者，也是一位非常有才华的流行歌曲作曲家。在见到威尔之前，我就听说了他，一位普通的朋友告诉我，“你和威尔·哈特完全一样！”（我们都很活泼，声音也很大。）我在中学时从乔·福尔曼那里借了一盘《吻王朝》的录音带，知道它是威尔借给乔伊的，我很喜欢它。威尔和我随后在一场廉价把戏音乐会上认识了，由一位普通朋友（也是我们俩未来的乐队成员）杰夫·曼古姆介绍，成为了年轻的音乐竞争对手，然后成为了最亲密的朋友。几年后，我确实归还了王朝的磁带。
威尔与奥利维亚·特雷默控制乐队的比尔·多斯（我与他共同制作）共同领导，循环系统乐队的乐队指挥，也是20世纪90年代末在佐治亚州雅典爆发的大象6艺术社区的精神领袖。他是我十几岁和二十出头时的犯罪搭档，我亲爱的朋友、室友、乐队成员，我们一生都在追求一种艺术和音乐的愿景，直到今天，我们还是孩子的时候一起孵化出来的。威尔非常健谈，非常有趣，非常有表现力，非常有创造力。他精力充沛、甜美、温柔、认真，时而完全冷静，时而完全爆发。威尔患有多发性硬化症近二十年，这逐渐降低了他的行动能力、弹吉他的能力和巡演的能力，但他保持了生产力、歌曲创作、录音和艺术，并在一种高度创造力的状态下生活。他受到了我、他的乐队成员以及大象6号和雅典社区的无限爱戴。
我对失去朋友感到震惊。今天，我向威尔致敬，填补了他的一段传奇。2012年，当奥利维亚·特雷默控制乐队的联合指挥比尔·多斯（Bill Doss）去世时，OTC正在全力录制一张史诗般的新概念专辑，比尔和才华横溢的德里克·阿尔姆斯特德（Derek Almsted）共同设计和组装了这张雄心勃勃的双专辑。比尔家工作室的墙上挂着一张图表，上面写满了抽象诗歌和箭头，据说这是专辑的地图。我签约帮助完成制作，然后搬到亚特兰大埃默里大学读数学研究生。计划是：在雅典度过周末，直到记录完成。我听了所有的混音，复习了比尔和威尔的录音室笔记，我们有一个完成的计划。但不幸的是，我搬到亚特兰大的那个周末是比尔去世的那个周末，也是我们搬进来的那天。他完全投入到了新的OTC记录中，充满了灵感，我们都发誓要完成这项工作。但悲伤让我们倒退了好几年。它让我停滞不前。“比尔去山里了，”威尔说。
即使在悲伤中，威尔也永远不会失去对他和比尔共同创作的杰作的关注。他保持了愿景和概念的新鲜感。但他不是工作室工程师，患有MS，所以他真的需要整个村庄来支持这项工作。在拍摄《大象6》纪录片期间，C.B.Stockfleth来到雅典，威尔对再次参与OTC工作越来越充满热情。我们在音乐家工程师Jason NeSmith的家庭工作室安排了一次会议，开始填写必要的补唱，并期待完成一首或多首OTC曲目。两首歌，“光之花园”（比尔的歌）和“同一个地方”（威尔的歌），都快完成了，所以我们专注于这些，并完成了比尔最初任务清单中的多余部分，加上威尔和我监督的一些新作品。这是一个巨大的努力，整个乐队都来了，我的姐夫和合作者克雷格·莫里斯来帮助工程师，我们感到一种巨大的动力。这在电影中捕捉得非常好，这是一次非常感人的录音体验。即便如此，悲伤和混乱使从那里开始变得困难。仅仅完成这两首歌就花费了数年时间。
与威尔、比尔以及设计了基本曲目并为OTC专辑做了大量工作的德里克一起，杰森·内史密斯是完成这两首OTC歌曲的英雄。杰森和威尔一起混音了这两首歌，把混音发给我征求意见，然后开始在其他未完成的OTC曲目上取得进展。多亏了杰森，威尔获得了动力
原文：
Cubist Castle Forever: I am deeply heartbroken on this day of celebration of a new Olivia Tremor Control release, to announce that my dear friend and Elephant 6 Recording Co. co-founder, W. Cullen Hart (Will to his friends), passed away this morning of natural causes, suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the release of the two new OTC songs.
Will was a genius experimental and psychedelic pop musician, a brilliant and prolific visual artist who sketched and made collage art every second of every day, on every object within reach. He was a lifelong four-tracker, tape looper, spontaneous poet, sound collage constructor, deconstructionist of musical instruments, and a very talented composer of pop songs since we were teenagers. I heard about Will before I met him, a common friend told me, “You and Will Hart are exactly alike!” (We were both very animated and loud.) I borrowed a cassette copy of Kiss Dynasty from Joey Foreman – future projectionist for the OTC – in middle school, knowing it had been loaned to Joey by Will, and loved it. Will and I subsequently met at a Cheap Trick concert, introduced by a common friend (and future bandmate to both of us) Jeff Mangum, and became youthful competitors in music, and then the closest of friends. I did return the Dynasty tape some years later.
Will was co-leader with Bill Doss of the Olivia Tremor Control (whom I co-produced), bandleader of the Circulatory System, and was the spiritual leader of the Elephant 6 art community that exploded in Athens, Georgia, in the late 1990s. He was my partner in crime in our teens and early twenties, my dear friend, roommate, bandmate, and we pursued a vision of art and music together our whole lives, to this very day, that we hatched as children – together. Will was infinitely chatty, infinitely funny, infinitely expressive, infinitely creative. He was energetic, sweet, tender, earnest, alternately totally chill and totally explosive. Will suffered from multiple sclerosis for almost two decades, which gradually reduced his mobility, his ability to play guitar, and his ability to tour – but he kept up his productivity, his songwriting, his recording and his art, and lived life in a state of heightened creativity. He was infinitely loved by me, and by his bandmates and the Elephant 6 and Athens communities.
I am in shock at the loss of my friend. I honor Will today, by filling in a piece of his legend. When Olivia Tremor Control co-leader Bill Doss – also my dear friend and Apples in stereo bandmate – passed away in 2012, the OTC were in full-swing recording an epic new concept album, with Bill and talented Derek Almsted working together to engineer and assemble the ambitious double album. On Bill’s home studio wall was a chart filled with abstract poetry and arrows, that was supposedly a map to the album. I signed on to help finish the production – and I was moving to Atlanta for math graduate school at Emory. The plan was: weekends in Athens until the record was done. I heard all the rough mixes, went over studio notes of Bill and Will, and we had a plan to finish. But tragically, the weekend I moved to Atlanta was the weekend that Bill died, the very day we moved in. He was completely invested in the new OTC record and filled with inspiration, and we all vowed to finish the work. But grief held us back for years. It holds me back still. “Bill has gone to the mountains,” Will said.
Will never lost focus, even in his grief, on the masterpiece he and Bill had started. He kept the vision and the concept fresh. But he is not a studio engineer and had debilitating MS so he really needed the whole village to support the effort. During the filming of the Elephant 6 documentary, C. B. Stockfleth was coming to Athens and Will had become increasingly passionate to work on the OTC again. We set up a session at musician-engineer Jason NeSmith’s home studio to start to fill in the necessary overdubs and look toward finishing one or more OTC tracks. Two songs, “Garden of Light” (Bill’s song) and “The Same Place” (Will’s song), were almost done so we focused on those, and got the overdubs finished from Bill’s original task list, plus a few new pieces with Will and me overseeing. It was a huge effort, the whole band came in to play, my brother-in-law and collaborator Craig Morris came in to help engineer, and we felt a sense of great momentum. This is captured really nicely in the film, it was a very moving recording experience. Even so, grief and disorganization made proceeding hard from there. It took years just to finish the two songs.
Along with Will and Bill, and Derek who engineered the basic tracks and had done much work on the OTC album, Jason NeSmith is the hero of the finishing of the two OTC songs. Jason and Will worked together on mixing the two songs, sending mixes back and forth to me for comment, and then started to make progress towards other unfinished OTC tracks. Thanks to Jason, Will gained momentum, and new enthusiasm, and their studio collaboration blossomed over the last two years, even with MS affecting Will’s mobility more and more – he pushed forward to the finish happily, bravely. I am so thankful to Derek and to Jason for their engineering work on the final OTC album. May the history of this classic band record the vital role each of them played as partners to Bill and to Will. And Kelly Hart, Will’s wife and his co-manager of the rebooted Elephant 6 label, is the hero of bringing the songs into the world. These beautiful songs – perhaps among the best psychedelic pop songs ever recorded – exist today, they are on BandCamp and on the E6 documentary vinyl LP that came out today, and Kelly told me that this morning Will was excited and happy to see people were downloading it. Today is a day of victory for W. Cullen Hart – his last day represented a triumph. Today is the day that Will’s perseverance, his sincerity, his struggle with MS, and his devotion to Bill and their common vision, bears fruit.
My dear friend, my brother, my co-conspirator, my E6 co-founder, I have always loved you and will always love you with the same intensity I had when we were young. You were so amazing, I can’t even believe you existed. I will miss your love and your humor and your energy and your brilliance forever. I will endeavor to help your bandmates finish your work, and I will forever be grateful for your friendship and your love – my sweet friend and my greatest artistic influence. May your journey to the mountains be beautiful.
[Pictured: Will, me and our good friend Mike Owens in the Ruston High School yearbook]
