Today was a really great day for making progress on the music front. EJ played quite independently all day with my pen, an old cell phone and a shoe catalog. This gave me lots of time to work on the Big Finale of my new music release. I am so excited to be able to make this new music. I have no delusions of greatness, in fact some of this is downright difficult to deal with and I’m the one making it.

I keep thinking of my Dad as I work on this piece. I know that if he puts it in the CD player in the car as he heads off for work or a soccer trip, that if he bothers listening to the whole work, he’ll say something like, “this gives me the heebiee-jeebiees!” It’s ok, I know it’s challenging to be able to call it music. Yes there is some piano playing from the studio a couple weeks ago, there is also some electronic beats and sound effects as well as some serious digital manipulations. I like the effects and can see the progess at work.

Really, to me it feels like I am making a sonic version of a Jackson Pollack painting. Big, messy and strangely beautiful in the ordered chaos. It’s very exciting to me none the less, and I hope to be able to share the complete work with the World soon.