I’m thinking I should transition this site to be mostly a list of pointers to where I’m actually posting the things I create, which is on a bunch of other sites.
So, here’s one: I’m exploring Factr, and I’m documenting this year’s Halloween project there, a skull that watches you.
I wrote this while sitting on the Cornell arts quad during my daughter’s band rehearsal. The campus symbolized my past, and her future. She was almost as old as I was when my father died. All that led to some writing, and then this.
This track is quite a different approach from the first one; it’s all synths plus vocals, and a much more active texture.
Eventually, there is no experience so small that it can’t break your heart.
This is a rough demo, and I could see doing a grander production of it, but I’m enjoying posting these quick drafts to get raw new songs out into the world.
At this point in the troubleshooting process, you’re starting to feel desperate, willing to try anything, even poking the problem with a stick. Do that. But don’t do it desperately, do it scientifically. read more...
I wrote this while sitting on the Cornell arts quad during my daughter’s band rehearsal. The campus symbolized my past, and her future. She was almost as old as I was when my father died. All that led to some writing, and then this.
(Edit: Followed by another version, quite different.)