Month of Double Nosebleed

It's 2022.02.01 on the lunar calendar today.

It's been a perpetual double-nosebleed kind of month. I've had moments of wondering why we live like this—feeling like a rubber band stretched to its limit, so busy (and then saying yes to more things.) I've realized that I want to work on my Jung album in a Jungian way, which seems a luxury and almost an impossibility to do through the whole of the project. I've got to find a way to carve out the time and space.

Pictured is my living room wall currently ... abstract art? I counted 22 receipts from Home Depot from the past month. Sometimes I mix it up by going to Lowe's or Ace Hardware. I've acquired a whole new set of vocabulary (e.g., finials and Hollywood in reference to marble thresholds) and have been inspired to compose/improvise and shoot a set of homemaker music videos, music of the mundane.

We Lived Happily During the War

I saw the below poem

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#5WomenArtists

Can you name 5 women artists? Scoring and recording the music to this campaign for the National Museum of Women in the Arts—under the creative direction of Tronvig and with Ross Moss Garren co-arranging, mixing, and mastering—reminded me how much I love composing. It's so fun!!To answer the question: Shirin Neshat, Adrian Piper, Martine Syms, Christine Sun Kim, Tomorrow Girls Troop (see full answer with brief descriptions here).

End of Dragons

My big news is that I wrote and recorded the 

end credits song to Guild Wars 2

!! I'm thrilled to be a small part of the epic massively multiplayer online role-playing game. I'm also glad that the most commercial thing I've done to date is aligned with my creative placemaking/keeping mission of taking my music where people already congregate—in this case a virtual community of 16 million players 😮🤯 Huge thanks to the lead composer Maclaine Diemer for bringing me on board. The whole GW2 team has been great to work with! 

Currently listening to the Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons OST 🔉I haven't heard much traditional Korean instrumentation in soundtracks before and this is really well done!

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