The Manual for Not Quitting

A. Make friends with others who make art, and share your in-progress work with each other frequently.

B. Learn to think of (A), rather than the Museum of Modern Art, as the destination of your work. (Look at it this way: If all goes well, MOMA will eventually come to YOU.) - David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art & Fear
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Sunday, January 12, 2014

A few moments and thoughts for 2014

Near the end of 2013 Ben had a conversation with me about composing to a schedule.  This being about a song writing challenge group, and how it might help overcome certain hurdles.   I wasn't fully comfortable with joining it, but it did inspire me to write a bunch of mostly terrible pieces.  Here is a work in progress that I dislike less than most of the others.

http://youtu.be/6h24jmmpvew

Also the images are some of the random balancing of objects I used to do while in public spaces (I mainly just do it with any coins in a tip now standing them on edge).  The movie editor required that I have some kind of image content so I used those stills.  Feel free to not watch, it's not exciting.


The (working) title is Forever Stops Today, but i suspect that is a bit too ridiculous even for me so it will likely change.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Oh my love/Lay me down

This song has been floating around in my headspace for a while, and it feels good to put something down. Sorry for the shabby recording. I put words to it this morning, but those might change. Also, I'm not sure of the title. I think "Lay me down" might work, but not sure. Here it is: Oh my love


Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Jalopy Theater


So Ben and I went here last night to hear a show.  It was quite the experience.  I thought I would start sharing the ideas I had for recording and setting up his second album there.