11.09.25 - ‘Blue Apples’ (Part 2)

I love looking at the clouds, and many songs have had their start by this cloud-gazing. So that’s where this project is starting!

The creative process is one that needs to be stewarded well, continually refined, and exercised daily. I’ve given myself a month-long challenge of accomplishing the same creative task every day. My goal was three-fold: write something, record something, share something.

Each day, I’ll take a picture of the clouds that day. Visually, I think this will be a rewarding outcome in the end!

I’ll also write something. I’m keeping the bar achievable, so it doesn’t need to be an entire song. It doesn’t even need to be a great start. But it must be something.

And then I’ll combine the visual with the auditory and have a creative piece to post. My calendar will be populated by these ‘cloud comps.’ Some song might come from it, it might be nothing more than getting all the bad ideas out. But the end result will be the continual honing of the creative discipline. And a cool calendar with clouds to look at!

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY:

I wasn’t really expecting this challenge to produce multi-day projects, but today’s time was spent finishing yesterday’s song and putting together a bit of instrumentation for it.

A song should hold up on its own, but spending time exploring instrumentation can loop back into the song’s structure. It can help me figure out what I like and what parts need to be reshaped.

After workshopping some ideas, I think a final cut of this song would have an instrumental break somewhere in it, maybe featuring a violin or Irish whistle. The song structure is pretty simple, which is an element I like a lot, but there’s some opportunity for extra dashes of whimsy through different instruments.

But for this challenge, I’m content at reaching the point where the lyrics & melody is locked in!