It seems I made the mistake yesterday of enjoying what I created, which put me under pressure to try and equal or better it today. My inner critic was turned on to max when I woke up, and I procrastinated for a good part of the day and then rejected my initial idea when I finally sat down to work. I decided making something vastly different to yesterday might help to distance me from comparisons, so I took just a few kernels of my rejected idea and improvised with them using my loop pedal.

SCP #3: A Linen Square

Today was hard, and it's only day three. I had about four hours sleep last night and spent most of the day as a zombie, but at about 11pm I pulled myself together enough to get this one out. These videos are the kind of thing I'd usually keep to myself, and not share them to become a public record of my experimentation. A huge part of this project, however, is about learning to put my inner critic on hold. Besides, tomorrow is another day and another chance to create something new.

SCP #1: The Number Of Petals My Heart Has Left

The tyranny of the blank page...

It turns out there was a fatal flaw in my plan for this project: I didn't have any kind of starting point for the very first song. I'm naturally an excellent procrastinator if given the chance, and I almost decided that my announcement of the project would count as today's work. But I made a late dash to the finish line after dinner and emerged triumphant.

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