[editor’s note: Matt wrote most of this last night] 

Ok, so the album isn’t done.. but it’s nearly done.. or a rough draft of it will be done by tomorrow.. [tonight] with the need for more work to be done in the coming month. It’s difficult to be too ruthless in one’s self criticism.. when one spent more then a week in bed sick.. Particularly when you consider that to do a solo album in a month is.. no easy matter to begin with!

As it stands.. I’m not real happy with my work… It’s just not quite good enough for me.. Once I finish the rough edges of it.. and maybe throw in some other tracks.. I might like it more.. or be more happy with it..

Not Good Enough?

Well.. I have big ambitions.. what I really want is work to represent myself as a sound artist… work that I could show you and you’d be like “wow,” assuming you were the sorta person who’d go for the sorta thing I do…

What this means.. in practice.. is you really want something that’ll grab someone and make you go “wow.” I don’t think any of this work really does that. That’s not to say the work isn’t strong, or doesn’t have strengths.. but for me, as I look at it now.. the weaknesses keep it on earth…  

The Problem this presents me with.

Well, there is the question of just what my goal might be here.. If I had “wow work” then the work of promoting it.. well I imagine that “wow work” has a potential for catching fire… and developing it’s own momentum.. if you can just get it that spark going strongly enough…  without that.. I think you probably have to fight a good deal harder.. to get a good deal less far.

So…  I feel the need to get some really good work… before I go to crazy trying to promote any it… There’s some chance that I might have that chance in short order.. as I’ll likely find myself working on scoring a documentary soon… which will likely mean yet another album’s worth of new work..

Beyond this.. there have been a few tracks I’ve made over the course of the last year or so.. that ought to be added to the album.. and maybe with all that.. It’ll be that much better…  so we’ll see.

Promising signs

What is promising, at least to me.. is the feeling that.. along the way I found new possibilities for where my work might go…  directions I’m excited to explore. We’ll see how far I get with that.

Stan’s Plan

So… could I maybe formulate a plan at this point? Anything I give here will just be some.. well what might make sense from the point of view of the nights temperament… but lets take a swing at it anyway, shall we?

One way or another I want to steadily continue creating music.. I don’t think I can keep it as front and center as it has been this last month.. But I’d love it if I could keep enough of a focus on it so that.. well I got somewhere with some new music.. that I was happy with.. in not too much time.

I want to do a promotional campaign.. one where I try and get some bloggers / podcasters to talk about what I’m doing.. get a little press here and there, get some radio play somewhere…. at least try and get the ball rolling.

There is the video blog / internet tv show-ish thing to try and get off the ground.

I must, of course, redesign this site…

I really want to make an effort to get on top of some 3D graphics stuff.

Take the rough draft and make it finished. 

Ok.. so that’s a bit of it.. not including collaborations..   

Next Morning:

I just wrote out about an hours wroth of stuff.. only to lose it.. I’m feeling terribly frustrated.. so I guess I’ll just post it as is….  

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