Hi.
Well it's been nearly four weeks since I posted something to the site. That doesn't mean there has not been activity! But there has also been a lot happening with "life": Work, home renovations, work....It's a big question I have: How do folks balance the different aspects of their lives? We all have obligations, passions, requirements, and interests. The things we do to live; the things we live to do. What happens when those two (or three or four) aspects compete?
Well more on that later.
So, I' have recently started working on a composition for Subnoto:Indico.
It was a classic creative beginning. That feeling of a "pregnant" creative moment; something gnawing at the periphery that wanted to be expressed but without form or contour. A quick exploration of an idea leading to a more involved examination...an examination in itself curtailed by the requirements of "life" ("my god! is it 1:30 am?! I have a meeting in the morning!"); a series of furtive refinements wedged in where possible, yet to this point incomplete. Then there are the rabbit holes of technology that appear and attempt to seduce ...I must have lost two days trying to figure out how to use one instance of my Mach5v2 plug-in for all of the string parts, or futzing around with various efx only to realize that most of that stuff was immaterial to what I am trying to accomplish.
So, did I work it out? No. But I'm going to post it, because I have too often held things tightly until they are "perfected". Perfection implies the end of change and improvement. I've never done anything "perfect" in my life in that sense, so why I keep waiting for that to occur in this context is beyond me.
So here it is, warts and all. The roughest of rough drafts of a beginning and subject to mighty change before it's done. This is a sketchpad - which is obvious as the thing sort of peters out....
Anyway, here it is.
Peace all and good night.
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