There are a couple of preliminary parts to the project this week:
Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (complete)
Spend a couple of hours there checking out paintings and writing (complete)
I’ll then…
Write a scene of dialog that’s inspired by that visit
Here’s the concept… I’m looking for new things that will feed and nourish both my writing and other areas of my creative life. I’m hoping that the visuals of the Met will provide that nourishment. I’m kinda putting myself out on a limb here, because my schedule is already pretty darn packed this week. I’ll find a way somehow.
–Update: 8/2/07–
I went to the Met this afternoon and it was a really positive experience. I’m not sure yet if it’s going to lead to a script this week… I my put some music up instead. We’ll see how things go.
Way back when (I can’t find the original progam, so I’m actually not sure of the exact date) I wrote a piece for dance called “Baggage”. It was for Kelly Grogan’s NYU graduate recital. (Kelly was the choreographer and also an all around really cool person…) Not too long after the performance I went into the studio and recorded the music (we did it live for the recital).
What you’ll find in this weeks 52 Things are the parts of that session that I could salvage.
“Salvage” you say? Please explain!
Baggage is one of those projects that I’ve been saying I need to finish for years. As I said, it’s been so many years now that I can’t remember when it was we worked on it. I do remember that I spent over 900 bucks in studio time with the idea that I’d turn “Baggage” into an asset… Something I could use beyond the single performance we had. (I never actually defined what it is that I wanted to do with it, which was part of the problem.)
I recorded the tracks and then they sat there in the studio that I recorded them in for probably 2 years. I eventually made it back to the studio and had them transferred from ADAT to Pro-Tools so that I could do something with them. (Yes, it’s been so long they were recorded on ADAT).
And then the tracks sat in my apartment.
“I really need to finish “Baggage”, I’d say to myself.
And the tracks sat in my apartment.
Finally when I decide to actually finish Baggage as one of my “52 Things”, I realize that some of the tracks are missing. (I’m not sure if I lost a CD someplace, or if I even got them from the studio…) Ouch. Luckily it only affected a couple of the movements but alas, the “Baggage” you hear before you today is not the complete “Baggage”. I’ve resigned myself to this fact and hopefully learned a valuable lesson about putting things off.
The titles and order of movements have changed since the original performance (I can’t remember what things were called) but hey, at least I have part of “Baggage” to present to you this week! You’ll find it here.
Also on the positive side, I did re-purpose some of the music a while back as a duet with a dancer friend of mine from Brazil. We called it “The Fabric of our Dreams”.
