Or also titled as….random thoughts spewing forth from my cranium.
Inspiration. Never around when you need it…always there when you can’t do anything about it.
Yeah, I’ve not done much in the way of music in the past while. Granted there’s been moving, holidays, children, schedules, life in general but in spite of that, the musical inpiration has been pretty low. Attempting to force anything is usually counter productive for me. the music I write for mend is my therapy. It’s dark in nature and focused to tickle the dark electronic industrial fanatic that I am. It requires a high level of energy. There is also the give and take of working in a band situation.
Every so often the thought passes along of writing and recording my own album. I usually end up putting that thought on a hanger and putting it back into my mental closet of great ideas to explore later. I always feel a twinge of guilt about investing the energy into that when I’m in a band situation with other people. I’m realizing that the only thing keeping me from doing it is me. While I love what I do with mend there is another side of my musical side that I haven’t tapped into in years…that being more song based and not confined to the form & structure of stuff I’ve been doing with mend for years. I’ve tried exploring that side by helping other people with their projects, like my buddy Jim, but being a “hired gun” isn’t as satisfying.
There is some great “indie music” that I’ve been stumbling across via the internet, and there are communities of artists who are offering their music as a free download. So basically my only overhead is “memory” and I have plenty of that. (The digital kind anyway.)
I’ve also been exploring a network where artists can colloborate over the internet. You can post pieces of music and other musicians from around the world can add to it.
So there’s an interesting idea. Write and record songs with no confines of genre. Dress it up anyway you want. Bring in other musicians, but only if you want to. I have a slew of old song ideas that have been sitting on a shelf because they don’t fit the mend mold. Naturally there will always be the ever present electronic architecture but I picture much more organic elements involved. Purging this side of me will probably help with the creativity with my “darkside” as well.
It would feel silly to use my name, not to mention it doesn’t really reflect what I envision. I kind of like “Finding Wonderland” as the project name. hmmmm.
