that beautiful electro acoustic instrument feeds me... i didn't know i was looking for love until i found it... i had forgotten how much it gives me & i am oh so glad to have it back in my life...
yes it would profit from the preamp being looked @ by the nice milton keynes man...
yes... that's true... but in the state it's in right now, which is pretty much the way it's been when it's been working for me in the past...
it is both muse and instrument... it calls forth music from me...
and since it's been working again - roughly the last 24 hours... i've written a new tune... well... i've got 2 sections chordwise and i've written a provisional melody for the chorus which is really nuts chordwise...
it may suit the voice of someone i met last week... it may suit my own voice... lyricly it may well talk about my feelings in relation to oncewassqueeze... it could turn into a spanner tune... it could be a longcat tune... it could be a tune from this identity i'm thinking about which uses my real name...
from me... if you will...
x
Showing posts with label song writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song writing. Show all posts
Friday, August 20, 2010
Sunday, October 12, 2008
love was lies
i realise that i'm quite affected by the autumn, a mild depression has been around me for a week or so...
and then yesterday morning i suddenly wanted to sing "love is lies" the desperately sad song i wrote over 4 years ago about the situation between me & E, long since over and in fact i haven't set eyes on her for at least a year, if not 2 or 3 years now...
so i had that lovely thing happen where i can remember some of the music/lyrics and i sing what i know, then gradually the whole song comes out of my memory - bit by bit...
i've been singing it for two days and in fact i'm evolving the arrangement of it also, this is because i'm thinking of an album and i'm putting this song into the album - i think...
it's a good day to do it because i'm doing all kinds of crazy things inside my computer so it's good to leave it alone while it thinks...
i'm currently moving all of "berger" (all of my hard drives are named after writers) over to "cortazar", from one 500Gb drive to another 500Gb drive...
once this is done i'm going to convert "berger"'s file system from FAT32 to NTFS - this will mean i can have files that are over 4Gb, something that i tend to have these days what with videos floating about, until now i haven't been able to move such massive video files over to "berger" and i didn't know why...
i'm hoping that once "berger" is NTFS - as "cortazar" is - i'll be able to plug them both in through the eSATA PCI card that came with "berger", currently "cortazar" is not connected by eSATA - it's connected with USB2, which is much slower...
of course making "berger" NTFS might mean the eSATA PCI can't see it either which would mean i'd have to convert "cortazar" to FAT32 as well to make it work with the eSATA card, although eSATA PCI cards can't be too expensive, maybe i should just get another one...
anyway, techyness aside, the other news is that floopy & T have left their house over near seven sisters, they've got a place closer to us which becomes avilable in 3 weeks and in the mean time floopy has got himself a workspace up in enfield where all their stuff now is, cleo (hunka munka) has gone up to liverpool to be with dinah's sister F, T is going to spend the 3 weeks in wales and floopy will be sleeping over @ spski's probably, while working in enfield...
once they're in the new place floopy will continue working in enfield and there are even plans beyond the new place, but they're not certain...
i spent wednesday last week helping floopy move stuff up to enfield and spski did the same on thursday & friday...
it's a mental time and i'm almost jealous of the change - strange but there you have it...
and then yesterday morning i suddenly wanted to sing "love is lies" the desperately sad song i wrote over 4 years ago about the situation between me & E, long since over and in fact i haven't set eyes on her for at least a year, if not 2 or 3 years now...
so i had that lovely thing happen where i can remember some of the music/lyrics and i sing what i know, then gradually the whole song comes out of my memory - bit by bit...
i've been singing it for two days and in fact i'm evolving the arrangement of it also, this is because i'm thinking of an album and i'm putting this song into the album - i think...
it's a good day to do it because i'm doing all kinds of crazy things inside my computer so it's good to leave it alone while it thinks...
i'm currently moving all of "berger" (all of my hard drives are named after writers) over to "cortazar", from one 500Gb drive to another 500Gb drive...
once this is done i'm going to convert "berger"'s file system from FAT32 to NTFS - this will mean i can have files that are over 4Gb, something that i tend to have these days what with videos floating about, until now i haven't been able to move such massive video files over to "berger" and i didn't know why...
i'm hoping that once "berger" is NTFS - as "cortazar" is - i'll be able to plug them both in through the eSATA PCI card that came with "berger", currently "cortazar" is not connected by eSATA - it's connected with USB2, which is much slower...
of course making "berger" NTFS might mean the eSATA PCI can't see it either which would mean i'd have to convert "cortazar" to FAT32 as well to make it work with the eSATA card, although eSATA PCI cards can't be too expensive, maybe i should just get another one...
anyway, techyness aside, the other news is that floopy & T have left their house over near seven sisters, they've got a place closer to us which becomes avilable in 3 weeks and in the mean time floopy has got himself a workspace up in enfield where all their stuff now is, cleo (hunka munka) has gone up to liverpool to be with dinah's sister F, T is going to spend the 3 weeks in wales and floopy will be sleeping over @ spski's probably, while working in enfield...
once they're in the new place floopy will continue working in enfield and there are even plans beyond the new place, but they're not certain...
i spent wednesday last week helping floopy move stuff up to enfield and spski did the same on thursday & friday...
it's a mental time and i'm almost jealous of the change - strange but there you have it...
Sunday, September 28, 2008
rendering
leaving aside the fact that this week's improvisation took 30 hours to render (because of foolishness), in a normal week, with this new way of working with dailymotion,
let's say 9 hours of rendering, plus 2 hours of uploading...
set against 3 hours rendering and about an hour's uploading...
that's quite a bit of extra time, every week,
when i 1st started making video's i was rendering bits of video which took 30 minutes or so, sometimes as much as an hour and i was surprised... i had my rhodes right there by the computer and in the period i wrote a number of different chord sequences, 2 of which became songs for my dinah (the neurotic love song, long may this be true)...
over time i got used to the amount of time video took to render, it became less special, the time flew by and i didn't necessarily do anything productive like writing chords...
but this new paradigm, it's such a leap in terms of time, i'm really noticing it and it's like a gift of time, time i can't spend in front of this computer....
i'm reading more,
harmonic experience is looking at me with a suggestive tilt... motioning (or implying motion) towards the harmonium...
i have an album to write now, i don't know if i've mentioned it, but i think i want to do an album, songs from the past few years, including pre-dinah tunes like:
love is lies,
harbour walls,
on my mind,
and then dinah's:
long may this be true,
the neurotic love song,
stardust,
it ain't gonna stop,
the stranger tune...
when i wake up? - maybe,
and then who knows how many other tunes i have yet to write...
also, while i've got this small work life i want to take advantage of the freedom,
time...
PS - i didn't get out of bed before 11:30, the dawn project part 2 will have to wait a little longer x
let's say 9 hours of rendering, plus 2 hours of uploading...
set against 3 hours rendering and about an hour's uploading...
that's quite a bit of extra time, every week,
when i 1st started making video's i was rendering bits of video which took 30 minutes or so, sometimes as much as an hour and i was surprised... i had my rhodes right there by the computer and in the period i wrote a number of different chord sequences, 2 of which became songs for my dinah (the neurotic love song, long may this be true)...
over time i got used to the amount of time video took to render, it became less special, the time flew by and i didn't necessarily do anything productive like writing chords...
but this new paradigm, it's such a leap in terms of time, i'm really noticing it and it's like a gift of time, time i can't spend in front of this computer....
i'm reading more,
harmonic experience is looking at me with a suggestive tilt... motioning (or implying motion) towards the harmonium...
i have an album to write now, i don't know if i've mentioned it, but i think i want to do an album, songs from the past few years, including pre-dinah tunes like:
love is lies,
harbour walls,
on my mind,
and then dinah's:
long may this be true,
the neurotic love song,
stardust,
it ain't gonna stop,
the stranger tune...
when i wake up? - maybe,
and then who knows how many other tunes i have yet to write...
also, while i've got this small work life i want to take advantage of the freedom,
time...
PS - i didn't get out of bed before 11:30, the dawn project part 2 will have to wait a little longer x
Friday, April 04, 2008
spring
what a lovely day...
got up hellishly early for my last schools visit of the season... on top of the summertime clock change last weekend which i still haven't got used to...
cycled back slowly and deliciously in this glorious spring day, said goodbye to my beautiful girl who has gone away for the weekend and chilled a little bit with B who was round papering the hall...
then M & O came round for a song writing session which proved to be very productive, we took a tune that was an idea and turned it into a tune... another meeting next week to get it down...
what a lovely way to spend one's time, allbeit pining for dinah all the while x
got up hellishly early for my last schools visit of the season... on top of the summertime clock change last weekend which i still haven't got used to...
cycled back slowly and deliciously in this glorious spring day, said goodbye to my beautiful girl who has gone away for the weekend and chilled a little bit with B who was round papering the hall...
then M & O came round for a song writing session which proved to be very productive, we took a tune that was an idea and turned it into a tune... another meeting next week to get it down...
what a lovely way to spend one's time, allbeit pining for dinah all the while x
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