Did I mention that I really like the video for issue 3 of twenty-four magazine? Because I really like the video for issue 3 of twenty-four. Ian and Sara, you guys rock.
Also, read the magazine. The digital version is free and awesome, and the print version is not free and double awesome, at least.
I’m basically awake again, and issue 2 of twenty-four magazine is BEAUTIFUL. We’ve got interviews with Scott McCloud, the makers of Indie Game: The Movie, and Cindy Au, the community manager of Kickstarter. Also cocktails garnished with a piece of music I wrote so it could be torn up for garnish.
It was awesome. Buy the magazine!
Now is the time on Sprockets when I tell you to preorder your copy of twenty-four magazine.
I don’t know if everyone else has this, but when I’m setting aside time to compose I usually use the first hour or so, especially when it’s at the end of a day like right now, to zone out and let my mind go all shapeless. I guess it helps me sit back and see the wacky patterns that I wind up choosing from among to make my music.
While my brain does this, I’ve recently been watching a lot of cooking shows, and thinking about past experiences - especially trips abroad. I’m not sure why, maybe it helps to think of the biggest range of things I’ve seen that I can, like marching out of a pub in Stoke-Newington and going for a walk with my friend Ella in Hackney Marshes when I was in London last year. I’m about to write a scene from Midsummer, but I’m thinking about the river we walked by, what we talked about, and how we were basically doing speed-friendship since we only overlapped in the city by a day.
It’s like what an old composition teacher said to me, in our first lesson, “but when are you going to stare out a window and think weird thoughts?”
If you want to keep up with all the different stuff I make for the internet, this tumblr is probably best place. I also just post fun things sometimes cause it's the internet.
My main site is at kevinclarkcomposer.com
