So just back from playing those gigs and I’m in a real riffing kind of mood. Maybe I’ll talk about particulars and details later but right now I’m up for a progressive debrief.
My approach to the gigs has changed completely, it’s not the gigs that the tour is about. Sure it’s the main responsibility of the tour and it’s also th e main means of funidng the tour.
But the main point is to bring the musicians together with a creative focus.A large part of that creative focus is youtube, online video entertainment.
It raises an issue that’s part of a larger issue with my stuff and that is resolving the narrative with what’s already happened. Which makes me think I should be tackling them together in developing a solution.
A story has to start somewhere. I described the idea of mythology, but I guess I meant more the need to create it, which is just the same problem. A progressive story must initiate from the present, it must be established from the position of the present. How do you explore the past from that position?
Or maybe not explore but more really, how do you draw on your history from before the establishment of the narrative in a way that progresses the narrative?
I’m actually liking the idea of a symbolic funeral.
But more widescope, is the idea that footage we create can be used for different ends. We can do a tour thing that’s all about the tour, and is more musical driven, a more of a collaboration, but if I want to push my own ideas as a new Reality Compound thing, I can go off and do that.
That way the Short Circuit tour just becomes part of an ongoing theme which is me trying to resolve this stuff. Short Circuit sits alongside Myspace and other themes as unresolved issues from the past that come back and must be explored in order to provide the background significant to the narrative.
I guess because I have all these ideas, I need to develop them under my own steam, because these narratives may not be relevant to anyone I’m collaborating with.
