The fourth in a series of Tuesday improvisations.

I somehow made it to 200!  The third in a series of Tuesday improvisation games.

The second in a series of Tuesday improvisation games.

A series of little improvisation games using the letters of the word Tuesday.  Here is the first.

I have been severely procrastinating this project, as this and the next few videos will show.  From a series of Yesterday to a series of Today.

This was where I decided to take a proper break.  I think this video suggests that was a good idea.

The second in a series of three, playing with mirrors.

Taking the them kaleidoscope from the previous day's song, I made a little installation out of tin foil and let it guide a series of improvisations.  I played with light, breath and mirrors.  This is the first in a series of three.

I was quite busy with a show last week, so stretched for ideas I decided to write the text of the previous day's song out backwards and use that for a little improvisation.  Hence Scuffle Reverse.

A spider mind map, and some writing exercises, which I divided up to form a trio of improvisations.  This is the first.

Hailstones was my starting prompt, but this was just a small snippet of text from some writing exercises that went on to inform the next day's song.

Yesterday I had to go into one of those huge city office towers to drop off some documents.  It was the kind with a concierge in the lobby to direct you to the correct floor, and a stream of suits, motorcycle couriers and cycling lycra coming and going through the glass lifts.  I spent a large chunk of my twenties quite unhappy in office buildings like this, and whenever I end up back inside one I feel very uncomfortable as the negative memories come flooding back in.

This piece marks the end of week seven.  At some point I stopped actively counting the days as they click past, so realising I've been at this for seven weeks is a bit of a shock.  By the end of next week I'll have finished my third month, and one whole season of songs.  These daily videos are not just a record of my creative output, but also a record of a year in my life going by, which is quite nice.  We are coming to the end of Melbourne summer, so as the days become shorter and cooler I am sure my songs will adapt to the new season just as much as my wardrobe will.  Despite fluctuations in energy and enthusiasm for the project my body and mind show no signs of quitting, so I really hope I can make through all four seasons of songs.

I delved into my experimental self for this piece, but unfortunately my audio recorder didn't pick up much of the water sounds.  I was pretty exhausted yesterday, and so I allocated myself a half hour window in which to get the piece done.  I used ink from the previous day as a starting theme, and a mind map led me to cobalt blue.  Some internet wandering brought up Renoir's painting The Umbrellas, which was painted using two different shades of blue: the first stages of the painting done using cobalt, and later stages with ultramarine.  This idea of an umbrella in two shades of blue inspired the text, and my kitchen provided the props.

I have two younger sisters, and we are close in age and in friendship.  My middle sister moved to New York last year, and although the internet makes it easy for us to send little messages back and forth throughout our respective days, it's not the same as having her here in Melbourne.  I worked with the theme of distance from yesterday's piece, and wrote this for her.  Recording it made me a little emotional, because I miss her, and reminds me of the power music has to move and change us, and make us think.  Songwriting, for me it seems, is a balancing act between keeping unhelpful emotions out of the process, while allowing helpful emotions to flow freely through the composition and the performance.