Sunday Post

I'm in no doubt that 2015 has been a year of "firsts" for me creatively. In it, I began my sound recycling side-project 'The Audio Bin', explored aleatory in music with my 'MUSIC BY CHANCE' tracks, and dabbled in synesthesia painting. Although, the one thing that has had the most impacted me this year has been collaborating. 

The act of creating something with someone a few thousand miles away is very exciting to me. It makes the world seem a little cosier, and I'm very grateful for it, and the many new friends that I have gained through doing it. 

With that in mind, I thought it would only be right to collect all of the music that I have in some way been associated throughout 2015, and cram it all into one big playlist. Everything from my solo stuff, to the tracks produced by others via my 'Wou-Wou Open Collab' included. And when better to release it than New Year's Eve... gives anything that might sneak in over the next few days a chance, if nothing else. 

But that's not all, because New Year's Day will see the release of my first LP, 'Memory of Origin'. It's a spacey, experimental guitar album which I recorded to compliment Lizzie Badger's artwork during her Open Studio exhibition. It'll be downloadable in it's entirety from Bandcamp, with the abridged EP version available, for free, from SoundCloud. 

Well that's it, my last blogpost for 2015. I'd like to thank everyone who has supported me during the year and I'll see you in 2016! 

Happy thoughts,

- The Wormling

Sunday Post

This week I decided enough is enough, it’s time to knuckle down, sit up straight, pull that finger out and wash it in hot soapy water. Cos things have gotten a little slack and stale around here, and so have I. 

I’ve set myself some goals. A little contrived maybe I know, but I’m coming to learn that in my current state of mind I’m more inclined to stare at my guitar instead of play it and chew a pencil instead of running it around a piece of A4. So something had to change, cos not being creative feels so very numbing.

At the beginning of the month I started my "daily doodling" which is slowly helping me and my pencil establish a better, more rounded relationship. And starting tomorrow I’m hoping to rekindle with music in a similar fashion, with ‘Music Monthly’ - a new experimental track using various found sounds, samples, stabs, beats, licks and homemade instruments every first Monday of the month.

Hang on, what about all that stuff to do with chance?...

It’s coming, but I’ve decided not to rush it, so I’ll be working on it regularly and methodically in the background until the new year is upon us. It’s around that time I see the first examples being ready to share. But with that said, I do plan to write a weekly ‘Sunday Post’, much like this one, sharing a little about the week I’ve had and what I've been working on. So I imagine that more light will be shed on my fumbles with chance then.

On top of monthly music and chance based creativity, I’ve also been busy smartening up my ‘Make It Ugly’ cat paintings and a small number of my doodled portraits ready to put up for sale on society6. The upload date is set for Saturday (and continuing most Saturday’s thereafter), but I’ll be sure to do a special post once something’s been added to my shop.

So to recap: new music coming tomorrow, with the first stock going into the ‘Wou-Wou & The Wormling’ society6 store Saturday, and updates of my chance experiments (along with everything else) every Sunday... lets see how long I can keep this up ‘ey!

Happy thoughts, 

- The Wormling