These posts are a way of noting Time and its passage. I have been pursuing the passing of Time on Facebook, where I write a new poem each day throughout 2024. I am currently proofreading FACE BOOK POEMS, a book that includes poems written during the first half of the year.
This Facebook project has taken away from my posts hereon Wizard Ways, and I regret that I have allowed that distraction to deter posting on this site, since this Blog represents a large segment of my life and activity. On the other hand, I have only one reader of this Blog, and Google has discouraged comments by its rigorous sign-in procedure. My main regret is that I used Google for blogging. At the time, I had no idea how sinister and manipulative Google would turn out to be.I am sure they regularly scan these blogs and develop profiles on each contributor.
But here we are in November, and the greatest development for me has been to become immersive in sonority and musical sound. I'm not sure where this will lead, but as always, music becomes structure that can lead to discovery.
Improvisation is a way of traveling through Time, and it is productive when I become obsessive in exploring musical ideas at the keyboard. My mantra has been "fingers on the keys"... sometimes I come upon an idea that takes me down a musical path. I'm surprised, because I thought that time was over.
I'm in the midst of revisiting past songs. Thanks to a colleague, Dr. Ulrich Hartung, a number of my songs have been salvaged, but there's still so many that are gone. All of the songs I wrote for the album Prayer are lost from the several computer crashes I have experienced over the years.
But November has somehow brought a new resonance to my creative process, and in the midst of all that is going on, I relish a journey through the contours of musical thinking. I like to listen to fading sonorities where I sometimes detect a musical gesture that becomes a song.
