This week I’m doing something different. I’ve been playing with this particular piece of music for a while. It’s still not perfect but it’s coming to form. My process of creating music and writing are very similar. I sit down with whatever tools I’ve decided to use and play. I don’t mean play necessarily in the context of playing an instrument (though that would be accurate in the case of this weeks episode). When I work on each chapter it isn’t solely a writing exercise. I also experiment how the words sound when they’re spoken aloud. This effects the writing in ways that sometimes surprise me. The song that I create during this episode, piece by piece while you listen, is similar. There have been phrases that have come and gone, I’ve changed out different instruments in the past few weeks, and even still in this performance in its current form new phrases and shapes are introduced that I hadn’t expected.

The written word is similar. I’ve been a poetry guy for a long time. In my youth I participated in the slam community year after year and even once took the national stage doing so. The process of writing to write versus writing to be read… versus writing to to be heard are very different for me. Not to mention there are nuances in reading a written work when compared to performing a written work.

I’ve now spoken quite a bit about the written word and yet this episode is about music. The background music of our podcast plays with the written word and is generally created along side it. Some of it isn’t. While I haven’t share the context that this music belongs or what part of the story it’s intended for, I’m interested in how this piece feels now without that context. I look forward to comparing how it feels once it’s given the context that it will exist it later in the story.

If you have a brief moment to share your thoughts about this music as it exists right now. It will be a snapshot of time that can’t ever exist again once the story keeps playing on. We’ll compare notes later.

This episode was created outside of my sound closet and instead in the middle of my living room. While I describe it a bit on the actual podcast, I thought I’d post an image of the space as well.