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January 18, 2009
If It Ain’t Awesome, Toss ‘em!
Somehow, War-N and I managed to get two songs into a solid, lovely structure on Saturday from the hours of 5 to 11 PM! They were both such magickal, complete songs and I feel very emotional when we listen to them. I truly feel we had a magick going on Saturday that we took full advantage of, in a nice way. We wrote totally together. It was so wonderful! I can’t even begin to describe it, really.
Then, tonight, Sunday evening, we tried to work on another song. We were both not at our best, as War-N hadn’t slept well the night prior, nor had I. But, we pressed on to see what sparked. I wrote lyrics as I listened to what War-N wanted to play for me. He had written music to a short story I had written based on a bit of poetry I wrote. I know… a tiny bit confusing, but this is how we’re working right now. It goes something like this:
- I write a story based on nothing in particular. We then continue writing music to said story.
- or, I write a story based on older lyrics that I want to try and revive. War-N tries to write music to that story.
- or, we just sit down and write together in the moment.
- Finally, we have the option of listening to a little bit of music War-N has written, I write a story on the fly, then we proceed with everything from there.
So far, the latter seems to work quite well. I like the purity of the energy that forms when we just sit and write together. No pre-conceived ideas or distractions. However, tonight we chose option 2 and it failed rather miserably, in my eyes (and ears!). War-N’s music was so good and my lyrics were just so stupid and “sing-songy”. YUCK! We both decided a while back “If it ain’t awesome, toss ‘em!”, so that’s what we did. Those lyrics are toast, baby! They just couldn’t stand up to what we had done on Saturday at all. They were like a sad little wet noodle trying to stand up in a high wind. Not gonna happen!
So, we’ll spend some time away from that song and go on to other things that need to be written and recorded. I guess it was a bit greedy of me to want three great songs in two days… less than 48 hours, no less!
A bit of rest and then back to work!
Much Love
cb
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At 12:13 am on January 19, 2009, Dayadee commented:
What a great day of creativity you had on Saturday! As you say a bit greedy to expect a third song on Sunday … but what the heck … worth a try eh. And love all the differing processes you are using to make your latest music …wonderfuel indeed
At 2:29 pm on January 19, 2009, Laurens (from Can-EH!-dia) commented:
Unbenownced (spelling), to Both Christa and War N, the last noted style of writing music has been the usual modis operendi for the Swiss duo YELLO, where Boris Blank will create a piece of music (usually from the rhythm and percussion up), then play it for Dieter Meier, who then hammers out a story he envisions from listening to the music on an old fashioned typewriter!
I just thought that would be interesting for you to know…