Even as the stack of marching band theory books beside my desk grows and grows (amazing that the library lets grad students keep things for six months. Dangerous, too.), other bits of life go on around it.
I recently took my first swing at writing song lyrics. A group of old friends started a collaborative blog back in January, called “Mirth and Matter” (title stolen, coincidentally, from my old email address, which I stole from Shakespeare). Besides offering a good space for a rant, the blog hopes to also inspire/facilitate collaborative creative projects. The music/lyrics Throwdown was the first of these.
Those of us bloggers who identify as “writers” were randomly matched with those who call themselves “musicians” and set loose to collaborate on a song. I luckily was matched with my dear friend Zach, a man of truly frightening talent who lives in Miami. You can find our resulting song here:
http://mirthandmatter.blogspot.com/2008/04/mirth-over-matter.html
The intersection between music and words is an interesting space. Though it doesn’t currently have much of a formal place in this project, I will of course continue to think about it … and Zach has already sent me my next lyric-writing assignment.
