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<\/a>Fairfield\u2014who describes himself as being a multi-instrumentalist\u2014has been using the time to experiment by incorporating new instruments into his work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMy main instrument right now, I\u2019m taking guitar lessons at the Victoria Conservatory,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve also been playing ukulele a lot since my parents got me a ukulele for a graduation present from high school.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Fairfield has a few songs on Spotify right now, his aspirations are set on a bigger project: his debut full-length album. He\u2019s already writing for it and has the name ready.<\/p>\n \u201cThe album\u2019s called New Year\u2019s Farewells<\/i>,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about a kind of letting go. I just wrote a bunch. I started it… Actually, I was inspired to write during my grandma\u2019s funeral. So, yeah, it\u2019s dark and sad.\u201d<\/p>\n The young musician has managed a lot in his life, including fighting brain cancer when he was barely old enough to be considered a toddler.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI survived a brain tumor I suffered at two years old,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd, yes, every couple of years, I go in. So I graduated from BC Children\u2019s [Hospital] but every couple of years I\u2019ve been going to BC Children\u2019s at Vancouver for just long, long care follow-up.\u201d<\/p>\n While he\u2019s healthy now, Fairfield is still managing the long-term impacts that cancer can have. One of those impacts is on mental health, which is something Fairfield deals with through his music.<\/p>\n \u201cI struggle sometimes with anxiety, and, I don\u2019t know, I talk about it a lot in my music,\u201d he says. \u201cCancer, maybe it affects your mental health. I don\u2019t know… I don\u2019t know. But yeah, I\u2019ve had experiences in high school that were really difficult for me and affect me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n But Fairfield has found anxiety to be motivating for his music. Pulling from heavier emotions has been a consistent source of inspiration, starting back in high school.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent a lot of high school feeling lonely, and that was a big inspiration for my music, that allowed me to write the album that I was telling you about,\u201d he says. \u201cI think now I struggle sometimes with anxiety. And writing about and making… I write a lot of songs that are personal to me [and] help me with that. And that\u2019s what I write a lot of.\u201d<\/p>\n Fairfield is excited to see where his music-making journey takes him, and wants to create something that Camosun students\u2014and other listeners in general\u2014can connect to.<\/p>\n \u201cMy plans are just seeing where everything takes me, how much of an audience I can build for myself,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I just want to make music that people can resonate with, really.\u201d<\/p>\n Find nothing.\u2019s latest single, \u201cSing Me to Sleep,\u201d on Spotify now<\/a>, and find him on Instagram at colefairfield_music<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cole Fairfield is a first year Arts and Science student at Camosun, but he has his eyes set on building a music career. Fairfield\u2014who goes by the name nothing. when performing\u2014has been creating his sounds for about six years, taking inspiration from bands like Twenty One Pilots, Woodkid, grandson, Metric, and My Chemical Romance, among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-13-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26052,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26050\/revisions\/26052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}