10 Track Mind

It's been a while since I blogged on - and I was hoping that my next entry would announce the completion of the Inanna project phase 1. But alas, still more time needed before that is a reality. Mixing is complex and there is a lot of material to work through. The film making side is very time consuming and Steve the editor is a busy man. But maybe tomorrow I'll go down to his studio and see how things are getting along. I have filmed myself singing the overdubs and this is another thing that will take time to import and superimpose on the main film. We also need to choose images from the Sumerian history books to get some relevant images. So - patience is needed.
Meanwhile I am working well with my collegue Bernadette O'Brien on conceiving a pilot course for Integral Voice Therapy - launching into a new approach with voice work that we feel ready to begin now.
I am seeing a handful of private voice clients during the week and running a few recording sessions for solos and duos here at the Loft. This means learning Logic more and more on the trot, which is good.
I have also just completed an essay on the psychological meaning of Inanna as portrayed in the opera. I will be presenting the essay next week at the Voice Movement Therapy Conference in Kent. I will also be able to show the first three songs on film - as these are ready - in basic form, for presentation.
The Loft continues to host various artists and in fact tomorrow afternoon a tea party for ME sufferers.
I have begun again to play the piano after months chained to the computer. It's great and I feel I have something to say again musically - not sure what yet - but things are beginning to move. New vocal and pianistic shapes emerging. It's all a bit 'this and that' at the moment. Tried my hand at designing a web site for integral voice therapy and got into that. Then - editing and filming myself singing the overdubs for Inanna - another learning curve a couple of weeks ago. It's all very different from before the summer - when it was one track mind on the score. Now it's about 10 track mind.
I really want to get down to some new work - in depth - creative stuff - as the last couple of months has been finishing old projects or preparing new ones - not actually getting down to the substance of new work. I begin to hanker for that. This afternoon was finally again at the piano exploring structure in a new 'long song'. That's where I feel I belong! But all these other diversions do add richness and fallow time for the creative mind to regenerate itself.