Author: Don

Fourteen

Against my better judgement I participated in this year’s February Album Writing Month (FAWM), in which one attempts to write fourteen songs in twenty-eight days. Despite a late start, I succeeded, uploading the fourteenth tune today.

They aren’t great tunes. Most of them were written and recorded in just a few hours, and they sound like it. However, quality was secondary; my main goal was to become more comfortable with Studio One Studio Pro, and at that I made good progress. I still miss Logic, but not as much.

While most of my tunes were essentially rough first drafts, there were some that I’m not entirely unhappy with, and I may rework and expand them later. Here are a few for the morbidly curious.

A little waltz:

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Almost, but not quite

I took this picture yesterday. The earliest I’ve had daffodils in bloom in Kansas is February 17. This year they missed the record by two days. Last night them temperature was down to 15℉, and it will remain cold until next week. We’ll see what shape the flowers are then.

Pixels and letters

Let’s compare apples and oranges. Here’s a poem by William Carlos Williams you might know:

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

I fed the poem into Z-Image Turbo and requested a watercolor. This is the result:

Which is better? (Count the chicken toes before deciding.)

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