Saturday 14 April 2007

An unexpected day at home alone today, so an opportunity to ignore further the vast pile of admin and drudgery waiting on my desk, and devote some thinking time to our Edinburgh Festival project with the Tiger Lillies. I've been mentally mulching Edward Gorey and Monteverdi with Martyn's demos and waiting to hear what comes out in my head. It's quite tiring: I have to stop for a rest after every couple of songs. But at least the sudden outbreak of summer means that I can move my office outside into the shade of the plum tree.

clockwise from L: Monteverdi score and notebook, melodica, phone, iPod, manuscript notebook, shirt, more Monteverdi scores, lemon, mug, tea

I had another, mid-air, office at one point too. But up until today when I've been there, I've been paying far more attention to the birdsong than anything in my headphones.

Now I might just have time for a quick harmonica overdub on something else entirely before everyone gets back ...