A Dream Half Lost

I uploaded my latest piece to YouTube very early this morning:

I also went ahead with the contest idea. I had a tough time deciding whether or not to do it, because if no one enters (which is somewhat probable) I risk making myself look like a bit of a loser. But, if that’s the worst that could happen, I guess it’s not really that much of a risk. So I have details in the video description, and full details on my Hannifin Records blog. There’s a nice long deadline of four and a half months, so it will end on my first album’s one year anniversary.

It will probably be a good long while before I have time to write any more music. I wasn’t even planning to write this one. I’m just so unpredictable!

Not emotional pain, just head-throbbing pain. I felt awful most of yesterday. I woke up with a migraine which got worse throughout the day, and by the evening my nose was all stuffed up as well. Made it hard to focus on doing anything very productive, but I was able to finish composing an orchestral lullaby called A Dream Half Lost, opus 62, which I will post to YouTube either tonight or tomorrow… or Thursday… or Friday… and I guess I’ll go ahead and give that aforementioned contest idea a try… nothing ventured, nothing gained, eh?

In other news… there is no other news.

Oh, and thank goodness for pseudoephedrine; it has once again saved my nose, I can breathe again now.

After getting off work to yesterday, I did something I was not expecting to do… I started writing some music. I was just fooling around on the keyboard writing some melodies. Usually when I do that, I just end up forgetting the melodies and they are lost forever. But yesterday, as I wrote a lullaby-ish melody, I could just hear it harmonated and orchestrated so well in my head that I could not resist trying to get it into the computer and turning it into a full piece. It’s a very simple piece, just a calm melodic line repeated three times with variations. But to my exhausted mind it’s quite nice and relaxing.

I’m almost finished with it. I’ll probably post it on YouTube when I’m done. I think I’ll call it A Dream Half Lost.

I was also thinking about holding a small contest with it, the prize being a free [physical] copy of my album. To me the piece sounds very song-like, so the contest would be to write lyrics to it and post the singing of it as a video response on YouTube. Not sure how much interest there would be in such a contest, but I think it would be interesting to try… I’ve got nothing to lose, right? But I’m not sure yet…