I went to Elgin Symphony Orchestra concert with mom and dad on March 23, 2018 for a "Inside the Music" show on Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations.
I learned these things:
- Elgar had 2 themes he played with in variations - I think one was major and one minor.
- Each variation is a portrait of people he knew. Recordings have the initials of the people as part of the title. They musically represent things like stuttering or specific events.
- All of the subjects were friends from town - musicians, fancy ladies. Here's a listing of who all the portraits are.
- Some instruments did "short short long short" while other did "Long short short short"
- the bass in the theme simply goes up, up, up
As always after seeing live music, I was inspired to create some music. The variations reminded me of GBV album created by looking at pages from the yearbook ("I am a scientist...")
On the way to Elgin, I listened to some of the voice memo recording I made this year. There are more than I thought. They are 30 seconds to 2 minutes. All have something usable or somewhat compelling in them. There are around 10 finger picked melodies. There are discordant pieces. There are some pop/rockers. There are a couple songs about locusts.
(Coincidentally, I recently read that Outdoor Miner by Wire was about some leaf-boring insects!)
What's next step? Choose 10 as seeds to grow? Give myself 2 weeks/song? Or give myself LITTLE time and create drafts of a number of songs -- all 10? Or, pick 10 nuggestss - make "album" listing and begin filling up the songs one by one? Or empty the whole buck and turn them all into songs? Don't leave anything on the floor (like GBV).
(all of this I wrote on 3/24 and 3/25/2018). Over the last few days, I've been listening to NEW song ideas on Music Memos that I recorded over the past year. I recently purchased a new MacBook partly to record some music.
Recently, I read and wrote about Jeff Tweedy's "How to Write One Song."
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