A new year, and disorientation

05Jan11

As 2010 ran down, I experienced something new for me: a dry month, musically. December was the first month in over 4 years in which I did not record a single piece of music. I had an idea for a ukulele-based piece for the monthly KVR contest, but I didn’t get very far. Partly it’s because I caught a very bad flu half-way through the month (my voice still hasn’t recovered), but it feels like more than that.

I could have recorded something earlier in the month, but I found myself lacking motivation. Instead of working on a song, I found myself crocheting, playing Civilization V, reading, watching TV, or virtually anything else except being musical.

It’s an odd place for me to be right now. This past year has been a prolific one for my music writing, and I went on at some length in my previous post about how I’d proved to myself that I can write music whenever I want. So what happens when I don’t seem to want that?

I’m hoping this was a temporary abberation; I’ve always gotten a lot of pleasure out of making music, and I don’t want that to disappear. I guess we’ll see. FAWM is less than a month away, after all.

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