Monthly Archives: September 2009

21 to go

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Picture 1So. Back to this whole “write 100 songs in a year” thing.

I’ve written 79 songs so far. Most aren’t that great. Some turned out better than I expected.  A LOT are completely out of my “comfort zone” in writing. And, when I’m scrolling through the titles, about half of them don’t even look familiar to me. I have no idea what I’ve written. I can’t keep them all in my head.

I’ve got 21 songs to go. I’m currently ahead of my 2-a-week goal. If I push myself, I think I can do this.

I think I actually can.

I can’t believe I’m saying that.

Now my mind turns to next year.

Do I work on re-writing and tweaking the gems from 2009?

Do I set another (slightly more balanced) goal of 50 songs, just to keep myself going?

Do I not have a goal at all?

I’d like to have some sort of goal, just to feel like I’m in forward motion. I’m learning that if I don’t push myself, I won’t really “go” anywhere. Discipline drives the car of creativity.

What about you – what sort of “forward motion” would you like to see in your life? And can you set up a measurable and attainable way to move towards that goal?

Are you listening?

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I was at the gym yesterday. And I was listening to the “Radio Lab” podcast – an episode about music. And they made the point that music is everywhere. In our cars. On TV. Phone answering services. Elevators. Grocery stores. Movies. Alarm clocks. Shopping malls.

Everywhere.

And they said this is probably a bad thing. But they never elaborated on why…

Of course, I couldn’t help but ask why… And I decided it probably was bad, but not for the reasons they might’ve considered.

I think it’s bad because we hear music so much that we aren’t really able to hear it anymore. It’s just a part of the background noise of life – like in a movie. The new “white noise” of our everyday existence. Our brains have probably learned to tune it out.

And I think that’s pretty bad…

I make music. And I sometimes make music for others to hear. And I’m starting to hope that you really listen to my music when you hear it.

But you might not.

In fact, I might not.

Bad.

Can you see the sound?

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Y’all. I watched this video and it blew … my … mind:

“Consider for a moment, that sound does have form and we’ve seen that it can affect matter and cause form within matter… Think about the universe forming and think about the immense sound of the universe forming. If we ponder on that, then perhaps cymatics had an influence on the formation of the universe itself.” ~ Evan Grant