Progress

Ok. Kid birthday happened last week, 20 of her closest friends in the park and rec building…and my writing time was a bit less! Now coming back to it as of today and finding that the last part of a suite seems too much. Maybe going to cut that piece out. I think some people say “Kill your darlings” and Brian Eno says something like “Cut your favorite part and see what happens.” Thinking about that, then Suite 1 which is based on Covid times may be about done. I have another suite almost done, themed on another trauma of mine (this could be the trauma album, I think to myself, jokingly). Going to see if I can learn the new music some of which is notated but now needs to get practiced. Two weeks to go and that seems doable, maybe. Going to test some of this music (the first suite) at the Macalester Music department this week for their casual Thursday gathering. This will be a good test run for things.

Here is the piece that I will probably break off the group it was intended for and use alone for other things. Imperfect recording here, but I was happy with the sonic quality. It sounds like Air Studios in London, where I was able to travel through the magic of AIR reverb from Spitfire Audio (I don’t get any kickbacks here but it’s the coolest reverb I know).