clap your hands, sweep the floor
Jan. 6th, 2024 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rinueBeen sleeping badly. I can fall asleep but I wake up, sometimes multiple times and always too early - racing heart, stress. Early in the day all the skin around my eyes hurt like the skin was sunburned, but I managed to nap and calm that down.
Spent a few hours working on being able to eventually work on things - re-installing software, figuring out where various sound files got shuffled to as Ciro repeatedly moved things from drive to drive without warning or documentation, hooking it back up to the DAW, and figuring out how the DAW now works (the usual nonsense where if you look away for a minute, an operating system update changes the entire user interface for no real reason). Then trying to make the whole file architecture a little more robust so I don't have to do this again. I have things working well enough that maybe the next time I sit down I can actually compose.
I also listened to and cleaned up some of the sound samples I made last week with my sweet little Sony field recorder - working from an idea of industrial music that is instead domestic - brooms sweeping, pans scraping, coins rattling in a leather cup. I'm working on a piece that I'm going to try to make only rhythm and vocal, but multitracked vocal and extremely textured rhythm sounds. And it's blues. It's funny and angry and doesn't rhyme.
Is there an audience? Is there a distribution plan? Probably, and no.
Hoping to get it finished by the end of this month, although I wouldn't be surprised if it takes through February. It's nominally a New Year's Day song, but I mean "it's a new year" more metaphysically, the same way "Independence Day" might mean the fourth of July but might also have a different personal date for someone. "New Year" meaning a clean slate or a dividing line. It's possible I'll drastically rewrite both the lyrics and the melody. This is one of those rare times when I know the drum line before I'm sure about the vocal. I know it's often that way for Paul Simon and for Mark Ronson, but it's atypical for me.
A family member has a mild case of the flu. Have to cancel things, reschedule things.
"Darkest of the Days" got really popular all across India last week, where "really popular" means like 70 different people listened to it. But they are people I don't know and they are in different towns. I am not sure what happened. I assume they know each other. It's nice to think about, though.
Spent a few hours working on being able to eventually work on things - re-installing software, figuring out where various sound files got shuffled to as Ciro repeatedly moved things from drive to drive without warning or documentation, hooking it back up to the DAW, and figuring out how the DAW now works (the usual nonsense where if you look away for a minute, an operating system update changes the entire user interface for no real reason). Then trying to make the whole file architecture a little more robust so I don't have to do this again. I have things working well enough that maybe the next time I sit down I can actually compose.
I also listened to and cleaned up some of the sound samples I made last week with my sweet little Sony field recorder - working from an idea of industrial music that is instead domestic - brooms sweeping, pans scraping, coins rattling in a leather cup. I'm working on a piece that I'm going to try to make only rhythm and vocal, but multitracked vocal and extremely textured rhythm sounds. And it's blues. It's funny and angry and doesn't rhyme.
Is there an audience? Is there a distribution plan? Probably, and no.
Hoping to get it finished by the end of this month, although I wouldn't be surprised if it takes through February. It's nominally a New Year's Day song, but I mean "it's a new year" more metaphysically, the same way "Independence Day" might mean the fourth of July but might also have a different personal date for someone. "New Year" meaning a clean slate or a dividing line. It's possible I'll drastically rewrite both the lyrics and the melody. This is one of those rare times when I know the drum line before I'm sure about the vocal. I know it's often that way for Paul Simon and for Mark Ronson, but it's atypical for me.
A family member has a mild case of the flu. Have to cancel things, reschedule things.
"Darkest of the Days" got really popular all across India last week, where "really popular" means like 70 different people listened to it. But they are people I don't know and they are in different towns. I am not sure what happened. I assume they know each other. It's nice to think about, though.
