{"id":75,"date":"2006-10-29T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T17:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2006\/10\/29\/shinkyoku_moratorium_part_the_second\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T17:17:24","slug":"shinkyoku_moratorium_part_the_second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2006\/10\/29\/shinkyoku_moratorium_part_the_second\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinkyoku moratorium, part the second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the <a href=\"\/meisakuki\/?entry_id=2201\">last time<\/a>, this version of <em title=\"shinkyoku: (Jpn.) new song\">shinkyoku moratorium<\/em> is more of a game plan.<br \/>\nTo be truthful, I haven&#8217;t really written any new material from scratch since last year. Yes, there are new songs on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eponymous4.com\/projects\/?project=a_ghost_in_my_shadow\">A Ghost in My Shadow<\/a><\/em>, but they were created from pre-existing material.<br \/>\nI sketched out one new song, but I haven&#8217;t put it on paper nor attempted to record it.<br \/>\nI hesitate to say I have writer&#8217;s block because the truth is, I haven&#8217;t set out to write anything new this year. I haven&#8217;t made a conscious effort to sit at the piano or with a guitar for the purpose of creating new work.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLast year, I salvaged old songs and consciously wrote new ones to go with them. This year, nothing.<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a bad thing.<br \/>\nI still have a lot of work to do on the stuff I&#8217;ve already done, and there&#8217;s part of me that would like to start playing other people&#8217;s music.<br \/>\nSo, for <em>shinkyoku moratorium, part the second<\/em> I will set out to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Participate alongside NaSoAlMo.\n<li> Finish making demos for \u300c\u65b0\u66f2\u30e2\u30e9\u30c8\u30ea\u30a2\u30e0\u300d, the Japanese cover album.\n<li> Rehearse Michael Nyman&#8217;s <em>The Piano<\/em>.\n<li> Continue to finish the songs written up till now, Oct. 29, 2006.<\/ul>\n<p>I will let myself start writing new material once I get through 3\/4 of that list &#8212; the final item will probably be on-going &#8212; or after six months, whichever comes first.<br \/>\nI have a lot of directions I want to go, but if I don&#8217;t map it out, I&#8217;m going to get lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hesitate to say I have writer&#8217;s block because the truth is, I haven&#8217;t set out to write anything new this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-1d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}