I started doing another song last night in Reason. I originally intended to make a breakbeat dance song in the vein of Hybrid. However, as I kept writing, I began to lose focus and it degraded into a cheesy house song, and was moving further and further away from the song I originally envisioned. The song was already too far along to go back and change it, so I lost interest in continuing. But I’ve decided to, rather than just scrap the song, release it as is, without any intent on improving its mediocrity – restricting the entire creation time to one night while drunk. It’s released as what I’m now calling a One Night Drunk Songwriting Experiment on the music page. You may see more of these in the future.

Decided to release the song “Snow” after all, in an incomplete fashion.  If I had just decided to wait until I believed it was ready it could possibly have never seen a release.  This is released with a version since it’s unfinished and could be superseded in the future.  Currently it’s version Gamma (versions Alpha and Beta were unreleased builds), with a disclaimer that it’s unfinished along with the link on the music page.

This past summer, before moving, I was composing another song in reason called Snow.  It’s another experimental drum song in the style of Evening Stars, with a couple simple floating melodies overlaid on an extremely complicated drum line, to create a discordant feel.  This one has even more dreamlike whistling melodies, influenced by such songs as the Metroid Prime Phendrana Drifts theme and bad loop’s “lumme”.  The drum also surpasses the complexity of the drums in Evening Stars to approach a Venetian Snares-ish feel.

I finally found time this past weekend to pull it back up and take a look at it.

But I seem to be at a bit of an impasse.  I’m not satisfied enough to say that the song is finished.  It feels incomplete.  However, I am at a loss as to what I want to change to make it complete.  ”Writer’s” block, I guess?

I’m trying to decide whether to release it as is, release it but mark it as a “rough” mix, or wait until I figure out where I want to go with it (which could be a long time).

I guess this kind of thing happens to artists, writers, and musicians alike.