When I went out to pick up the Sunday paper off of the lawn this morning, I noticed how pretty the cedar elm is looking. The leaves have turned bright yellow. If I were to sit down right now to write a song about the look of the autumn leaves, I'd have to come up with a sound for yellow. I'm thinking I would use an acoustic guitar, piano, and maybe a sweet oboe. Although I have to admit, an oboe often sounds sad to me, and the yellow leaves don't look sad. Seeing them on the tree makes me think of cool crisp days here in Central Texas. We do get cool and even sometimes cold days here in Texas.
I seem to have production music inside of me these days and I've got to get it out. I sit down every morning at my keyboard at about 7:30 in the morning. I select an instrument on the keyboard to match my mood. These days I'm choosing woodwinds, strings, and piano more and more. Back in the summer, I was using electric guitar on a daily basis. So here in the cooler, shorter days of autumn, I am choosing softer tones -- like the softer light outside.
Yesterday I produced a 30-second music track that was way too busy. Today I subtracted a few of the instruments out of the piece to make it softer and simpler. That's the mood I'm in these days. I want a less complicated life. I want to shed myself of baggage, of old leaves that suited me well once but are really not necessary any longer. I need new growth but I've got to get rid of the old stuff first. I've got to go through yellow before I can get to green.
2 comments:
Are you still doing stuff for Audiobag? I saw that the last post was in December.
Hi, Dee. Thank you for the post. Yes, I'm still very much involved with my work at Audiobag. In fact, things got so hectic during the holiday season (voice work, Christmas shopping, and out-of-town visitors), that I haven't had time to blog.
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