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.

Here's my bathroom.  I only have to film one in the toilet and I will have all rooms in my flat covered.

Beatles included.

This one was recorded at about 4:30am, after waking up to a lot of very noisy thoughts.

Cloudy, outside and in.

A venetian mashup.  I like the way both pieces seem to build and end at the same time.

Curtains to blinds.

From spill to overflow.

I can't quite believe it, but I have made it to the end of six months.  I should write a proper update about how I'm feeling, but for now here's a song.  My starting theme was slow, and branches of a mind map led me to the lyrics.  The melody is mostly improvised save for a little hook, and a few questionable notes snuck their way in and will need to be plucked out when I finally get time to revisit all these songs and do something exciting with them.  What that something might be, I have no idea yet.

A chord taken from The Cause Of Your Calluses, and my clock as a metronome.  I only recorded one take: the lyrics and melody were improvised, and I treated the performance like a meditation.

Hands was my starting point for this piece, and I found it quite meditative to both compose and perform.  This is only the second piece I have performed on electric mandolin.  The other attempt was interrupted by flooding, which was about the time this project really started to challenge me.  I haven't even thought about what to do when it all ends, but I suppose I should watch everything back through from start to finish.  Although each piece of music is not exactly a journal entry, they will certainly reflect my mind and life in that particular moment.  If I can bear to sit through twelve months worth of videos I am curious to see how the music I have made has been shaped by the life I have lived alongside it.

I did my best to perform to the rhythm of my knitting.  It's a lace pattern, and slightly fiddly, which makes this piece nicely wonky.

An ode to dreaming, recorded while the sun was setting.

I was a little behind, so I caught up with a few improvisations inspired by dreaming, wishing and wasting time.  These are three things I've been doing a lot of recently.

A song! As much as I have been enjoying playing around with light it also feels nice to spend time on some composition.  I was woken very early the other morning, and sitting waiting for the sun to rise I began daydreaming about being on a plane to somewhere else in the world.  I took light as my theme from the previous piece and spun that together with my travel imaginings.  I was originally playing this on piano, but something about it sounded too much like musical theatre so I rearranged it for vocal loops and bass.  I was back to late night recording, so everything is played very quietly.

Part three: jugs, water and light.

Part II. More light play.