I conciously try to change up my approach to songwriting on a regular basis… keeps me honest…
Sometimes the progress is slow… but never slower than when I refrain from pursuing the muse at all…
I have an interest in the sonic work of people like John Cage and Yoko Ono (Yes I actually like her “music”)… and music makers like Kate Bush,Bowie, Brian Eno… building sonic landscapes that leave something to chance always intrigues me…
So I’ve had the thought that I would like to use a random letter generator to provide me with the “starting” point for a song… I found a handy one here – which allowed me to create 3 groups of 5 letters from A to G… The thought I had was that I would take the letters and “make them work” in the context of a song… a chord sequence (The “choice” part would allow me the flexibility of “sharpening” or “flattening” and deciding to “flavour” the chord… minor or major… augmenting… whatever)
So anyway… I used my handy sampling pedal to record some “jamming” using the bits I’d come up with and then put those into my DAW (digital audio workstation – my computer with my music editing software) and sort of rearranged the bits… and stuff…
Not sure where this is going — may change considerably as I play with it some more… and it may take a while (sometimes I need to leave things alone and come back much later… there are some songs that I have come back to years later! )
