SCP #10: The End Of A Feeling

Written & performed live 18th January 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Composed by Erica Bramham as part of the Song-Chain Project. The Song-Chain Project is a year-long creative mission that commences January 9 2017 and will run until January 9 2018. Each day for 365 days a new piece of music will be written, recorded and posted online, and the process documented. For more information visit ericabramham.com/songchain-project

I don't have a lot of brain space left tonight, but I'll do my best to bash out a few cohesive thoughts on this piece.  Today was an exercise in learning that something is enough.  This one is not very long, and there was far more I was playing around with, but it got to 11:30pm and I decided to just record the most cohesive part.  I tried to treat it like a finished piece in performance, and just making that mental decision seemed to help solidify it as a composition that is complete in itself regardless of what it wanted to be originally.

I took the phrase sticky tangle from yesterday as my starting point.  I went with my trusted timed writing exercises and then improvised with some of the text until I found a melody I liked.  I tried to do something more exciting with the harmony, but as the clock raced toward midnight simplicity won out.