As some of you may remember, between 24th August 2011 and 31st December 2013 I wrote a piece of music everyday (or towards the end also expanded that to doing something creativity, be it drawing or photography). The piece a day challenge was born out of a life situation where things weren't too great and everything was all rather negative, my thought in developing the challenge was firstly to do something creative and hopefully get into a 'creative routine' where creating became a habit (it did!) and also trying to do something positive and creative in amongst all the negativity.
Needless to say, I completed the challenge and it was one of the most inspiring, thought provoking, liberating (and difficult at times) things I have done. It also showed me that the only thing that holds one back from being creative is oneself! Anyway, roll forward 11 months, through a year which to be honest has been one of the worse I have ever experienced for some many reasons, I have found that once again there is a lot of negativity and bad stuff happening. My first thought about dealing with this now is to rekindle the Piece a day challenge and get creative again. I also found that after nearly a year and a half of being creative, since I stopped I have done very very little (okay pretty much nothing!), so I am also hoping that this will get me focused to get a couple of big projects actually completed. These projects include a new Light B4 Sound album (pretty much written!) and a 5 track guitar EP (half written!).
The goal now is very similar, but with a couple of small changes. I am going to start today, 13-11-13 and go through until 31-12-13, so just over a month really. The biggest difference this time is that I am only going to write pieces on weekdays (Monday to Friday), why....well I am still doing a course at Berklee and I have assignments to do at the weekends, so I don't really want to overload myself (with work as well!). The other rules stay the same
The rules I set myself were as follows
- Piece has to be longer than 30 seconds.
- Can’t be an existing piece or idea.
- Can be music or sound art or soundscape.
- Has to be uploaded by midnight on the day.
So without much further ado, here is the first piece today and yes I have been listening to a bit too much Paul Hardcastle this morning!!
Enjoy
Peace
Neil
