Too Much Choice

There is a point when you have to stop making playlists.  Not even making playlists, there's actually a point where you need to stop listening to individual tracks and just do something else.  I know it kind of sounds like a joke, but it's been happening to me a lot lately.  It's where you're going along and start to panic about what song to play next.  You think, well, I like this, but how well does it go with the last song.  Then the song you were playing stops and you just kinda sit there for a while.  Sure, this happens a lot when you're listening to something new, but you'll be able to tell when you should do something else for a while.

Album Release

I have now decided that I need to have at least one music album that is available to the public if for some reason someone were to read my blog and want to see what I keep talking about.  Obviously I'm not going to release any of the bass tracks I've been working on because I just can't bring myself around to suggest it with the recording equipment that I have.  I'll probably release the computer tracks soon.  My official reason is that my turntable tracks the most obvious representation of what my music is going to sound like.  Experimental, loud, and a bit more aimed towards something that could be called the "sound-art" genre.  I don't remember if I made that term up or if it's something that's commonly used.  I should probably ask, but it's kinda awkward at this point.  Now, I will have more than fifteen second samples in a loop for people to listen to.  This is going to get some of my older stuff out there for people to see and will be an interesting follow-up to my poetry reading video.

Poetry Reading Pt. 1

Now that I have my finally brought myself around to making one of my poetry readings public, I think it's time to reflect on it a bit.  First of all, it's important to know that it's the first of a four part series that I recorded using my laptop cam and mic.  The material is taken from three different books and most of it is changed from the official versions.  I like to think that placing these things next to each other gives you some very interesting things to think about.  Surprisingly, the videos don't change a whole lot from the versions in the books, but a lot of art is about context and how the audience views it.  I've had all four videos posted for a while now, but they haven't been publicly accessible until just now.  I thought that if I could find the right moment it would be cool to have a big fancy entrance, but I ended up deciding that I needed to be more visible before I can think about things like that.  I ended up liking the idea so much that I want to start making more things public so that it's out there while I work on new material.

Short Writing

By this point I have quite a few short writing entries.  I don't really write a whole lot at once, so I really only have a vague idea of what the storyline is in my head.  This is just the way that I decided to do things.  It seemed like a good way to accomplish something without really needed to commit too much to it.  Now that I've accumulated a fair amount of writing, I'm starting to get the feeling that I need to be more familiar with what I have so far.  I haven't really read through most of it after writing it, but I'm starting to get the sense that things could get redundant fairly easily.  I'm not sure if there would even be anything wrong with it, but it's one of those things that just bothers me.