Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Joseph Gutierrez & Saucerman

We recently had the chance to connect with Joseph Gutierrez & Saucerman and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Joseph & Saucerman, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What makes you lose track of time—and find yourself again?
Diving into over 30 years of unpublished songs I produced and getting lost in forgotten hooks, melodies, pitches, rifts, lyrics and songs frozen in time.

Home recording studio time on instruments in creation mode is where I tend to forget time. When you’re lost in the jam and occupied by rhythm of invention, time does not exist. If the music is good and keeps you going, that’s all that matters. Always have fun and love what you do!

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
**“I’m Joseph, the mind behind Joseph Signature Arts — an independent music producer, contemporary artist, and storyteller based in Arizona. My brand is all about resurrecting lost art and giving voice to the unheard. For over 20 years, I created music that was never released — raw, emotional, and rooted in personal mythology. After losing my original identity as Kindle Styles, I rebuilt myself as Joseph Signature Arts — a name that stands for resilience, ownership, and art that lasts.

In 2025, I released Dead Poet, a 35-track debut album that blends ambient soundscapes, clinical themes, and strange encounters with the unexplained. My ghost narrator, Saucerman, appears throughout as a spectral archivist — a time-traveling voice saving lost recordings and broken memories. Together, we reclaim what was almost erased.

My work isn’t just music — it’s a living archive, a cinematic mythos, and an invitation to experience sound as something sacred and fragile. I’m here to bring what was forgotten back to life — reel by reel, beam by beam.”**

Okay, so here’s a deep one: What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
**“I’d say the part of me that needed to keep secrets about my own high-strangeness — the side of me that bottled up my alien encounters, abductions, and missing time — has served its purpose and must now be released.

Since 2006, I’ve carried the real Saucerman story. It’s not just a character — it’s rooted in a true encounter I rarely talk about. I’ve experienced multiple visitations from beings that rewired my perception overnight, like angelic presences that arrived in broad daylight, delivering messages that shattered my old mindset. I’ve had moments when the sun itself spoke to me, bending closer to assure me I’m not alone — telling me to finish my Tape Extraction Project and get my music out into the world.

But the Saucerman story is the one that stays buried. It’s my real missing-time narrative — a hero-entity that showed up when I was lost, abducted, or in the unknown. It’s fragments, static, and transmissions I’m still piecing together. For years I didn’t share it because I feared what people would think.

Now I know: my purpose is to bring Saucerman fully into the light — as a living mythos, a witness, a guide who rescues forgotten parts of me and my art. What I’m releasing is the fear of sharing my truth. The world needs to hear the story that has been hidden for so long. The real Saucerman is the entity-hero inside me — and I’m finally ready to let him speak.”**

If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
Your Imagination is worth more than all the riches in the world. Don’t ever stop using it! Dream on Joey!

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Is the public version of you the real you?
**“I think the world is a very strange place — full of theories, beliefs, and fantasies that keep me reaching for something bigger than myself. Maybe we’re in a simulation, maybe we live in a multi-dimensional universe stretching from within us to the stars. I’m still trying to find my inner child in all of it.

I’ve always struggled with how easy it is to lose our real identities — our characters, our traits, our style — to modern corporate life and media noise. Some days I wonder how much of me I’ve given away just to keep moving forward.

But here’s what I know: I’m Artist First. That will never change. Good apples, bad apples — I’ve met them all. In the end, I keep my memories on defrost and just… chill, baby, chill. I remind myself, ‘Leave Southern Ron Alone’ — it’s my way of saying don’t let the world chew up what’s still pure.

That’s why Joseph Signature Arts carries my birth name. It’s my stake in the ground. It says: This is me, raw and unfinished. This is my signature. And no matter what, the art always comes first.”**

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. Could you give everything your best, even if no one ever praised you for it?
**“Absolutely — 110% — without a doubt.

This way of seeing the world didn’t come easy. It took me years to grow my skin thick enough not to rely on viewership, likes, followers, or outside praise. As artists, of course we want credit for what we make — that’s human. But as a business owner in custom media production, I’ve learned that sometimes the best work happens in the shadows, ghostwritten and uncredited. If it’s for a client, they deserve your absolute best, every single time.

In the end, it comes down to one thing: you must have the self-awareness to make your best work for you first. You keep building, you keep creating — until that internal light explodes and births a new star. That light shines as bright as the sun from within — and it never needed recognition to prove it’s always been there. That’s what keeps me going, even when no one’s looking.”**

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.josephsignaturearts.com/
• Instagram: joseph_signature_arts
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcarlosgutierrez
• Twitter: https://x.com/jsignaturearts
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JosephSignatureArt#
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@josephsignaturearts
• Soundcloud: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3A6z7tlR0wbebpM3FJKVlJ?si=2duAQaP8S46NPWe1cRnScw
• Other: https://www.josephsignaturearts.com/enter-the-void

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