After my last tutorial I do feel a fair bit better about my practice as a whole, as I sort of felt the music project I have been doing so far is a bit sporadic, so it was good to hear that it is getting more of a direction recently. The Polygondwanaland idea can be a good way to move forward with this project, as zeroing in on a certain piece of music for an extended time might give this project more bulk and direction.
Discussing the strange nature of the album (how the songs aren't really distinct and the album works as more a single piece of music stretched out over an hour, telling a strange neon medieval story), an idea that sounds good was that of a concertina book. I wanted to make more books this year as I really enjoyed book binding last year and want to put it to use. Concertina books are a bastard, I remember from first year, but if they’re done right they can be really cool and effective. The main idea is to make a book that illustrates the album as a whole (when the book is fully folded out) and communicates something about each song on the inner pages. I’ve very roughly started to sketch out these ideas, but I’m also trying to balance COP and the dissertation right now, so I might revisit this when we have more time after christmas and the 601 deadline.
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