Schrodinger's Cat

8 days left

New album is taking shape - I must be up to about #10 by now. Here are a couple of its ingredients. Also field recordings from Melbourne and some computer-generated stuff - it's even got sum phat beatz.

I bought my ticket back to Wellington for the 15th of July. I can move back into the same room in the same flat that I left, in Newtown! Suits me fine, as that was the best flat I've had. I'll also be able to slot into rehearsals for Ascension Band's upcoming performance at the Bomb the Space Festival in early August.

Ascension Band seems to be the real business of 2005 - by taking time out in Melbourne I've skipped over the comedown phase and inaction between the end of the Fringe Festival and now. It was good to have a change of direction so that life didn't seem anticlimactic. I know last year after we played at Meatwaters in September life felt flat by comparison to music and I couldn't get motivated enough to put in the long hours of practice necessary to pass shorthand (plus there were a dozen other things due at the same time).

Now I have to go back to Wellington to finish off the accursed shorthand paper, dreary bane of my existence, but on the other hand having something to anchor me in Wellington for the remainder of the year could be valuable as it means more time with Ascension Band. It's the heavy artillery of my musical projects - it can do anything. And the thing I found pretty mindblowing earlier this year was that people were actually into it. The audience showed up. The costs were covered (except for the break-in to the back room when a microphone got stolen). The reviews were good ("they maintain avant-garde cred and still manage to rock harder than AC/DC" - now that's a good review). And it was great fun.

I'm playing a Melbourne gig next Tuesday, hopefully with Mike & Fran, at the Make It Up Club, the weekly improvised music evening in Melbourne.

8 days to go in Australia (this time) - there should be enough around to keep me interested...

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