Decay

I'm in there, upside down but still, in there.
In many ways this day has been a very nice Tuesday. Drizzle in the morning, when this image of the decaying summer is taken. Decaying automatically means a new beginning, in nature as well as in life.

Another project is underway, or two actually. My friend and former colleague Thomas H is leading a choir, which he wants recorded the second week of November and I'm going to help him. That'll be fun and frightening at the same time. I've done it before and it will probably be fine but many things can go wrong and I don't want to disappoint thirty people. I'll try not to.

The second is helping Johan, the actor, who I did the Dowland project together with, providing music for his next project of doing Shakespeares "A midsummer night´s dream" as a one man performance. He's come up with a way to do it and Me and my friends are going to provide him with a musical soundtrack for it. Mostly, it means reusing some of the music we already did for the Shakespear/Dowland project, adding a couple of songs and recording them to be a part of his play sometime next year. Exciting, and frightening, as I think I've already pointed out.

In the evening I was working at the theatre where the local music school was performing a bunch of songs connected to various books, plays and films by Astrid Lindgren, you know, Pippi Longstockings. The orchestra was all grown ups playing wind instruments, many of them also teaching at the local music school for children, and a huge children's choir  singing the lyrics. A wonderful performance where it's clear that there will be plenty new, powerful resources coming to fill our space. 
That feels really positive and reassuring in this depressing environmental and political time.