Influences: Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Suzanne Vega, Joni Mitchell, Jean-Michel Jarre, David Bowie, 70s AM radio, 80s FM radio. And at least one more.
Last FAWM taught me a lot about just showing up and capturing music, doing what I called "Robot Piano Sketch" demos. In the fall, I managed to figure out how to fill out that practice a little bit more by adding other instruments and, surprisingly, vocals.
I'm calling these "Song Seeds" rather than demos because they are more "rolling 8's" than real song sections - three groups of eight bars, repeated twice. It *almost* sounds like a demo and lets me capture an idea or a mood. At this point, the lyrics are all placeholders and provisional. I just try to sing something to get an idea of melody and phrasing.
It was all very "low consequence" work and I found I could do it daily, sometimes more than once per day. Which is how I found myself with over eighty of these beasties between August and October.
"Now what?"
That's where I'm at: Now what do I *do* with these things, anyway? Figuring that out is the goal which greets me in 2021 and I suspect it'll continue on for, uh... forever?
As part of the Black Friday sale, I upgraded to Spitfire Audio's BBC Symphony Orchestra Core. So, another thing I want to spend time on this year is writing orchestral cues.
No songs by this fawmer (yet).
Excited to hear your new stuff!
Can't wait to check out your stuff this year!
Welcome back for another trip around the month!