April 30ths
Short (Side 1) Short (Side 2) As April comes to a close, so does my experiment for April generating a song idea per day. What has been most interesting is that working from the music of language, as opposed to the language of music (with music coming first in the form of a chord change or riff,) results in a wider range of musical styles. It also creates perhaps too many ideas, and they have to be triaged or converged and need to enter the full writing stage. Or they can be done live, where one player creates a riff based on it and the other players follow it as a form of improv. This of course is nothing new, but my spin is that it's a remix based on what happens on a particular day, regardless of year, and is an abstraction of it, not a literal storyline based on any one event. The 4/30 song idea: 4/30/1870 (William James Correspondence) "I think that yesterday was a crisis in my life. I finished Renouvier's second Essais and see no reason why his definition of f...
