Saturday, November 16, 2024

Square Spoons, Ty Pawb, and Vocal Recording

Two very full days, I'm feeling overwhelmed and need to pause. The tracks for the new Fall in Green album are now finalised, there will be 15, though 8 lack vocals as yet. I bought a spoon with the aim of making a square one. Here are the stages of sawing, sanding and carving:

It's not square enough, so I'll do more work on it. Then, a trip to the Ty Pawb Open 2024 opening event. The artwork was great, imaginative and skilled. There were one or two boring landscapes; a portrait, no matter how conventionally done, is always more interesting; but generally, the artwork had huge variety in styles and themes. There were no trending themes or media, it was a wide gamut of media and of theme, but all works skilled and professional looking.

There have been four such open exhibitions and I've featured in three (I didn't apply for the first!) and I feel doubly honoured at this statistic; the quality here is really high.

Today Deb arrived to record vocals for the new album, and we managed 7 tracks before darting out to a Christmas event, a purchase of some 'Alphabetti Spaghetti', and other essential duties. Social duties tonight with a gamer night, my second and perhaps last of the year. Perhaps tomorrow I can start clear the backlog of jobs. I've barely had a few minutes to myself to think, but I know I have messages to respond to. Sisyphus cannot linger. Onwards we much push our weary selves.