Had a dream this morning that I was at a hall talking to the woman manager about the gig coming up in twenty minutes. The band hadn't showed up, and I'd broken the hall key in three pieces from fidgeting with it.
Today's the day funding applications are due for Fringe 2006, and I was hoping Ascension Band would get something happening while I was off on the Heaphy Track. But no, they're letting it slide without me as noone else wants to take charge of organising it and fronting up with the registration money. Bloody slackers. Oh well, since I'm now out of Wellington my involvement would be limited anyway.
Hopefully I can find some people to play with here, and I did get accepted for the Nelson School of Music next year. I'm having fun learning to play drums at the moment.
The way my evolution went was, early on I had plenty of musical ideas (if not much technical skill), then I burned out around early 2003, lost my confidence and managed to get back into it by collaborating with others (The Winter / Ascension Band)... but every paradigm has its limitations. For the last year or two I've relied too much on others for ideas? Now I have to rediscover how to generate my own ideas again, and compose for ensembles. Plenty of learning to go - then we can (fingers crossed) take something overseas in 2007. In the meantime I have to assert more of an internet presence, so there'll be an audience waiting.
And another project is clearing weeds off the section here, building steps and planting a vege garden. It's a good afternoon to work on that...
* - Douglas Adams
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