An exercise
Among the challenges in this challenge is the exercise of harnessing moments of inspiration. As Philip Pullman says here (on writing), “…if you’re going to write anything that will last - you have to realise that a lot of the time, you’re ging to be writing without inspiration. The trick is to write just as well without it as with.”
For this recording project I’ve been scribbling on scraps of envelopes, typing quick notes on my laptop, singing seconds of melodies into my cellphone’s voice recorder on the way to work among other ways to save these moments of inspiration from being forgotten. Looking back, it is fairly certain that I have missed many of these moments over the years and wish I could get them back.
4 years ago