Working Titles

At the end of last week, I reached a minor milestone. I managed to write thirty compositions in thirty days. This doesn't necessarily mean thirty completely fleshed out songs, although several titles have reached various states of completion. And it wasn't strictly every day, either. I took about ten days off from writing when three of the compositions demanded my immediate attention as they were incorporated into the album. But on some of the remaining days, I managed to produce three or four new pieces, so that made up for the missing days. It all came out even in the end.

The pieces range in style from pure incidental music to funk, lounge, pop songs, weird sonic experiments and just plain silliness. By allowing myself to see ideas through, no matter how bizarre, I've come up with three songs for the new album, about a half dozen tunes for an instrumental project and several solid ideas for stock commercial uses and further exploration. Funny how I decry censorship in practice, yet I've spent so many years subjecting myself to my own.

So, for the first time in my life, I have a surplus of ideas. I'm going to keep up the pace merely because I'm curious to see what happens next. When each composition is complete (or as complete as it's going to get on any given day), I do a quick mix, date it and give it a working title.

I'm told that my working titles are amusing. They reflect whatever I happen to be reading or watching or talking with Kate about at the time of creation. I'm including a list of them here:

Twink

Piano Piece Version 1

Molecule

Dark Signal

Petals

Pickles

Bleem

Ledge

Cottonesque

Station to Starlight

Mister Coffy

Green and Gorgeous

Begin the Begat

Jojo

What You See

Anything But

Second Time

Owlet

The Planet Eater

Sub Space Interference

Mid Tempo Number

Botany Bay

We All Ended Up Having to Eat Each Other

Buffering

Clokey

Dust on the Olive

Floating Cookies

I Can Smell the Rain

Grease on the Monkey

The New People

And I added a new one yesterday called "Vacate".

Last time, I mentioned that I planned on re-doing drums on some of the earlier tracks. This turned out to be unnecessary, since fiddling with the mixes seemed to take care of perceived problems. I'm putting the album down for a week or two to see what new compositions I come up with on the "One-a-Day" program.