new music project

yeah i know i say this a lot (i also say that a lot too)... but i really want to start another music project. i still have three months before my birthday and even though this will be my busiest school schedule yet, i feel like i have this gaping chasm that i have yet to fulfill. i should really get my thoughts together and scrape up whatever passion, motivation and inspiration i have to pour into this project. i want to make an EP before i turn 20 as the last hurrah of my teenage years.

the schematics:

drums, guitars, bass. loop and delay pedal. i plan to model my project after the many post-rock influences i have and more specifically the repetitious, playful riffings of the mercury program and the ambient droning and simple chord progressions of mogwai. i plan on using the concept of basso continuo from the Baroque era of classical music merely by function because of the nature of the loop pedal. there's also a question of whether or not i want to incorporate idee fixe into the mix. as much as i abhor program music, i think idee fixe is a neat musical structure that plays on variations of the same musical idea to represent some symbol. this might be possible when tinkering around on a loop pedal and would also contribute to cohesiveness in any given song.

this may be all well and good on paper, but i need to push myself to attempt any of these things. i have all the equipment and ideas needed to make a great project, now i just have to apply them and actually create something new.


wish me luck,
savio



basso continuo






idee fixe