Idea 10

I sharpened my pencils and was ready to write.

But then, a few days passed before I started playing the music on this keyboard. Don't you think one can be lost when seeing 105 keys, with different letters and numbers on them? Not to mention the fact that I find myself more comfortable with 52 white and 36 black keys...

So, I had that piece of paper on the desk, actually the empty side of the electricity bill that I grabbed and used to write down ideas. It was 5 topics I noted down that would one day become posts. The list has grown to 10 and yesterday finished at 18. 😂

Now I can cross out one, and the moment I press the publish button for this post, the list will become shorter. Just 17 ideas will remain unless my mind creates a new one to add.

I don't like blunt pencils. This is how I like to have them!

Sometimes happens that we have ideas but everyday tasks make us blunt. Time can be a tricky player too, it seems that is always winning... I think that it actually cheats on us somehow, but we just have to find out how to overcome it. Mind also likes to enter mousetraps and leave us on the edge of an abyss. It can come for a myriad of reasons, doesn't matter at all, but in the end, it's only we who have the access to our own chests where the prudence is stored.

In any case, I think that noting down the ideas can help us later get back on track. Ideas can come and go, and it also applies to music and composers. When about a week ago a friend of mine recommended me a piece called Idea 10 by Gibran Alcocer, I asked again for the title.

¿Cómo se llama esta idea, qué canción es?

(What is this idea called, what song is it?)

He repeated - Idea 10.

Ah, so it was the name, I understood in the end. He explained that probably this musician writes down his ideas, and this one is idea number 10. Disclaimer: I don't know if that is true at all, or if it is what that friend just suppose... However, I found the composition by Gibran Alcocer and the practice part started. 🎶

As it sounded nice I decided to record it, but this is a post about ideas... so let's mix a few of them. I had some video footage of the place we visited in January, shot from the cliffs of the town of Nazaré (Portugal). From the same journey, I had a super short recording of Lisbon, from Sao Jorge Castle. I also recorded a performance of a street artist in Valencia a few days ago. Those were maybe also some ideas, but now I mixed them, all combined in one video as there were too short to come in an individual form. The music comes as background, and for me, it definitely has a sound from the past. Who knows what was the composer thinking, but in my opinion, it reflects memories and ideas, all mixed up.

Ending note - this post comes without an ending note.

Oh, well, maybe just a short conclusion. The pencils... let's sharpen them and write when the right time comes for it! ;)