mv7 - Interludings - mvVIII?

Hello All, and may I take this opportunity to wish you all a joyous Samhain, and I hope whatever celebrations you might have planned go smoothly and enjoyably. For the sun is now dying, to be reborn at the time of the new year. This is the season for stories, warm fires, and lovely thick stews!!!

But to get on to the news bit. Interesting things happening again. The MAGIX press representatives, bless their hearts, sent me two sample discs on Friday, 6GB apiece. One is very welcome - Soundpool 16, but the other I am not too sure about as it is a kind of "compilation" disc of the best stuff from all the previous discs. Most of which, I already have!!!

So earlier today, I decided to explore 16 and create a little track to just play with a few of the new samples. I saved the track as I was working on it as "Halloween Tune", but am subsequently renaming it "Interlude" or "Interludings" - as that's what the track was, a little interlude.

Then I listened to a batch of old Soviet-era interval signals on headphones whilst I was outside having a luxurious smokette, and began to wonder about an actual "Interlude" CD. Not quite an album, as 7 is finished and mvVIII already has a track or two in progress, but certainly NOT designed as a CD single - I would try to fill the whole 70-80 minutes, and it would therefore take the form of "mv7 - Interlude - mvVIII".

I had not really given it much thought as I sat outside on a grey Samhain afternoon, but the more I DO think about it, I'm wondering what it might be like to fill a CD with all kinds of bits and pieces. A few actual new tracks that don't belong anywhere else, maybe pull a couple of unreleased tracks that I have had sitting on the hard drive waiting for a decision, then complete an idea or two for tracks that have also been sitting on the hard drive, my favourite interval signals perhaps all laced together and very heavily processed, bits of sampled conversations: In short, fill the thing up with fun, listenable, interesting junk!

I have a CD by the now legendary multi-media wunderkinder of art/music combinateurs Pyschic TV, called "Electric Newspaper Issue Three" from 1995. It is a disc intended to be used as the owner of the disc sees fit. The tracks are just 1, 2, 3 etc, and the accompanying literature encourages one to sample, loop, reorder, reorganise, remix, distort, attack and kill the content of the disc. "It is yours because it is free" is a quote on the packaging from The Diggers from 1967, and re-enforces the "do what you like with this" aspect. Whilst I would never claim to be in the Genesis P. Orridge class, the idea of a CD full of "stuff" has really quite taken me, so I am "looking at it and thinking about it" as the great Lord Eric of Morecambe once said.

Since mvVIII is such a huge project, which is easily going to take me through the death and rebirth of the sun, so right through into Spring in effect, this "Inturludings" CD might be a fun diversion in the way that 7 became over the last few weeks of its recording. I have discussed the idea with Mrs. mad_vicar (always the voice of reason and sanity), and she thinks it sounds like something that might keep me occupied for a while. I must admit, I am a bit apprehensive of how intense mvVIII will be, and this could be just the thing to take away some of the worry!

So there we are. A possible side-project thing to play with whilst I take breaks from the heavy stuff of mvVIII. I shall, or Dex will, as ever, keep you informed of how things are going.

Until then, I wish you all a joyous Samhain. Blessed Be. Merry Meet and Merry Part. Blessings of the Goddess on this night of nights, where the veil between the worlds is almost transparent, and those we love and respect can be brought to mind and blessed in turn. Blessings upon you all.

Love always,

m_v