Compartmentalization of the Soul, or maybe the door.

Soul or the Door, as dubbed anew from the old XPS will not benefit further from continued instrumental development until vocals and lyrics are integrated into its splendor. I've been saying this for a long time now - since 2005, very few words have been arranged to live within the music.

Until now. Oh wait, may as well plug a link before you lose your interest, if you've made it this far:
Fluorescence

The task was always too grand! I'd created such a volume of music that the challenge of prosing it grew beyond the scope of what I could dare muster. The whole was much larger than the sum of its parts, thus, I've begun compartmentalizing it. Each track is being divided down to its elements, "physically" separated to manageable pieces.

That being said, energy has been dedicated to the final goal, with a developing product! Imagine that. The record plays from mood-fitting queues and the words flow out from mind thru pen to page. Forgive the direction that they may not seem to take as most of the prose start with no intent, but maybe a fitting phrase or a few words, letting a form of free association chisel out words onto paper with the impression of a ballpoint pen. With diligence and practice they're flowing stronger and more concisely.

It's been pretty natural as I don't force it out. Themes are developing. Confidence is up as is productivity. That is how it is right now. Hah -  I read back on some of last year's post from around this time. Good stuff.

Sort out the...

Hey, this rad idea occurred me a while ago -- hell, a long time ago about just getting things done, and while organizing some newly-acquired tunes I put on the album Xenophanes by Omar of The Mars Volta and cross-referenced his discography and damn, that guy's put out a lot of music. It just so happened that I was organizing a folder that contained basically every album that the guy's ever touched since 1991...

I've played albums here and there from his solo set and frankly, some are pretty damned obnoxious but he's got a lot of good works, too. I know, Kasey, a lot of it also happens to be garbage or some long, drawn-out ramble on how pretentious his guitar playing is ... but what I get from the greater scheme is the idea, as noted above, that if you do something, then you will have done something -- you can always sort out the shit later.

That's pretty much all that I had to say. I bought a Five-Star, college-ruled, spiral-bound notebook from Wal-Mart and when in combination with a fine ball-point pen and a standard format for writing, I've already jotted three entries. Size, complexity and quality should improve as I get into the habit. Some may even make it onto here, as such I'll guarantee that my Toastmasters speeches shall be posted.

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