I've neglected this blog recently because I've been focussing my attention on getting some more music produced and out into the world. It's been a strange balance to strike though, because without an online presence, or any exposure to a potential market, the music may as well be confined to my studio! I concluded that I shouldn't have neglected this so much though because this blog has actually been a valuable outlet for documenting the progress that I've been making, and for sharing my ideas.

The comments I've received by email have been sincerely appreciated. To the people who seem to have had problems leaving comments on here, sorry about that. I had a look at it and everything should be working fine if you click on 'leave comment' and follow the instructions.  

I'm still out and about working with the usual people and teaching (which takes up a considerable amount of my time), but I'm trying to break out of the patterns which I've sometimes found myself in which are not conducive to achieving as much as I could. I'm not always very good at prioritising things and I tend to work very hard on 5 or 6 projects at a time and make slow, steady progress with them all rather than to focus my attention on one thing at a time and complete it before moving on to the next. I'm trying to change this, and be more directional with my work but because the nature of creativity is that it is a completely untamable beast which requires a permanently adaptive aproach, time scales for completing work sometimes seem to be very artificial and even destructive! I've tried to work to them though because I could very feasibly work on a project for 5 or 6 years and the outcome would not really be any 'better' than the outcome I could reach within a few months. 'Different' perhaps, but I'm not convinced that within a subjective artistic field that the concept of 'better' actually applys.

I would welcome peoples thoughts on this.

Nik