"Ambient Music is intended to induce calm and a space to think. Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."  ...So says Brian Eno.  I'm at a beautiful little oasis in North Carolina where Canadian geese fly overhead, honk, and wake my almost peaceful dogs. I listen to Music for Films, a 1978 (earlier versions available) Brian Eno release which feeds my blissfully altered mood, I watch fog lift over the stream Mallard ducks land in, and then... idler arms and drag links! Pittman arms!  Crank shafts and grease seals, Oy vey!  Mechanic's language and repair parts for Sheila the magic bus.

Sheila is a 1986 Airstream Motorhome, the part road warrior part inner space starship that I now call home.  I'll meander to my new location somewhere north of San Francisco over the summer.  Argh...but for the timing of repairs to force my stay in NC just a little longer; just a few more days backed up to a mountain stream at the most gorgeous time of the year in the western North Carolina mountains.  So keep me here!  I don't mind; the west bound lane of I-40 through a portion of Arkansas is temporarily closed.  I prefer a slower drive and hopefully the damage in that area is not too severe--much lost for many people. 

So over the next few days, I explore my new shrunken studio, the laptop.  I just upgraded to Logic 9 from 7.2--ahhhh, 7.2, so stable and beautiful!  Can I just say, new Logic--kinda cheesy looking?  Oh well.  I know that's just my initial snotty observation and there have been mighty (supposed) improvements and tweeks but the whole homogenization...the 'choice' between composition and garage band...help.  And speaking of composition, I just finished a Cd, Song of the Gypsy Tree--a vocal Cd this time; vocals as in songs with lyrics.  The musical composition is reminiscent of the last few instrumental Cds but with vocals and lyric as central focus. Sometime over the next few days we should have samples up but it's available now through Cd Baby (look for the icon on this site at the bottom of the page). Next blog, I'd like to talk about some of the music and those fine upstanding souls who assisted my bringing this Cd to completion.  Many thanks and much gratitude for the blessings.  

Check it out --listen to some of my music, read some of my writing, and stay tuned for some blogging, too. 

Hope you enjoy it all.