SCP #69: I Am A Pane Of Glass

Written & performed 18th March 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

This project is as much about practicing performing as it is practicing composing.  I was really struggling to get through a successful take of this one last night.  I kept making small mistakes, and then rather than letting them go they were growing in my mind, forming distractions, and leading to larger mistakes and abandoned takes.  The clock was edging toward midnight when I finally had a take I was happy with.  I'm still learning ways to manage all the mental stuff that goes along with performing, particularly performing for recording, which I find more difficult than performing live.  This project is definitely helping, although it's slightly stressful putting these raw recordings out into the public space where they can potentially exist forever.

I started with the word trickle for this piece, which inspired this piece of a love that grows and makes the world a nicer place when viewed from inside it.