I’m glad the experiment is over, so I can get back to what I do best.
It was useful to focus on some sound, it was interesting to explore my relationship with the music part of songwriting. It was humbling to accept I’m not very good at it, while trying to explore how it works.
I no longer feel “I have to” do this. I like collecting sounds, and I like manipulating them to make rhythms and create an ambience, a mood, a root for something else… but that’s it. I don’t have the education, or the time to get the education and experience, and possibly just don’t have it in my old brain to get where I would want to be if I did it.
So in terms of a personal research period, it was successful. I no longer need to go there again if I don’t want to. And I feel ok about that. But up until now, because I hadn’t dedicated any real time to it, I always had this nagging feeling that I should.
So tomorrow I shall rope my husband into helping me shuffle all the furniture round, set everything back up how it needs to be to enable me to get on with the twigs work. That was a jolly little tangent, but I’m back on my main road now.
Things are happening with the twigs, I need to concentrate on that, and getting it all seen. When I am a little further forward with it I’ll let you know how it is going. At the moment it’s not much more than felt pen on big paper, and a few interesting conversations.
