Experiment in Progress

So.. I've been writing a lot lately about an alternate version of myself. One that has a weird spiritual view of the world and believes in faeries and stuff and, rather than constantly disclaiming this fantasy self and feeling repressed about writing for her, I've spun her off into a separate shard. Call her a story journal or an alternate version of me if you like, but if you're interested in reading that stuff, check her out at

http://dvnt_spirit.livejournal.com I'll probably crosslink her stories here for a while and you'll doubtlessly see some overlap in ideas if you read both of us.

Of course, everything has its dark side and I certainly have mine so... I decided to extend this experiment a bit see what happens if I spin my ranting angry political side off into a separate journal as well because heck, if we're going to talk about world-views that I don't necessarily endorse and cause internal conflict in myself in terms of rationalizing who I am, Ms. Ann Thrope is far more incompatible with me than some girl who believes in faeries.

Anyhow. Her journal is at http://dervish_girl.livejournal.com Read at your own peril.


Both of these are public entities. They're still 'me'. I'm just trying a behavior experiment on myself.

Flute Fruit

It's so good to have my flute back in my life. I've been playing while walking to and from work. Finding I have a lot to relearn and I'm not yet anywhere near as good as I was before the accident and I stopped playing 17 years ago, but parts of it are finding their way back.

What I really need to do in the near future is spend some time learning to compose. I've got the basics of just noodling around until I find some little progression that I like and I understand staying in a key and mixing other things into the progression to keep it from getting too stale but right now, I do feel like I'm repeating my progressions a little too often and I could do a lot more to mix things up. Of course, since it's single instrument and impromptu, I can't really take breaks and let other instruments come to the forefront to solve this problem, so what I really need to do is compose my progressions into a complete song or I need to get out ye olde garage band and mix in some other instruments. Why not? I can play keyboard, guitar, and recorder as well.

It's all just a matter of practice and finding the time though, I suppose. Still. It's quite nice to have my flute back.

Here's a couple samples of progressions I've worked on.

These two are posted in dvnt_spirit:

WoodSong Variation 1
WoodSong Variation 2

Not as far along with this one (mostly because it's a lot harder to play) but it's definitely got some interesting bits in it, though I'm not fully convinced this isn't something I heard in a Shpongle track. :P
Untitled, unfinished

Opinions/suggestions/etc much appreciated. ... I don't know how to compose music. I could use any help I can get.