Musical Blogspot.

This is the first post on the new musical blogspot.

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This will be the home for shared ideas of a musical that I am writing. With the title of this blog, it truly will be a work in progress not knowing when or how long this will take. I'm not sure how much time I will able to write this fall semester, but I'm getting ideas together for a story that I want to tell. I realize I can't do this alone. This is when you come in. I need suggestions/ideas/thoughts from you in order for my scattered thoughts to fall in to place and to make sense of the story in my head. You can come with me on this journey if you would like to. You can give suggestions or you can just stick around to see how these ideas will progress. More information will come. I'm still seeing if this will work out on a blog. The next post will hopefully be a rough outline of a story or of ideas that I have. And as for the title of this musical, we will find out together what should be most appropriate.

If you would like permission to access this blog or even become an author of this blog. Just let me know at anytime during this journey.

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The link is as follows: http://workinprogressmusical.blogspot.com/

Just send me your email through here, facebook or my email: traviswicklund@gmail.com

Starting To Write.

Wow. I've never thought I would do this. I have ideas for a musical in mind and started writing some melodies, characters, setting, theme, etc. I don't know when a final rough draft will be finished, but I have started at the very least. If you would like to know details of what I have so far, just let me know. I am thinking of starting a new blogspot with progress and shared ideas from others. We shall see where this goes and how much time I will be able to have to work on it while at school in Spokane.

Houses.

I chuckled and shook my head.

Silly McCain.

Fun.

Good news. Nate Reuss, the singer of 'The Format', has started a new band with the guitarist of 'Steel Train', Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost of 'Anathallo'. They will be recording their debut album in September and it will be expected to be released in February of 09'. They currently have one demo track up on their MySpace. Check it out! http://www.myspace.com/fun

To Write/Compose.

These thoughts that have been going on in my head don't want to leave and I don't think that they will leave anytime soon. When I tend to sit down at the piano, I don't always work on my repertoire, I tend to write and create music of my own. Hours can go by just playing the same basic melody while finding the perfect accompaniment with the new sound. These thoughts of creating music is all I do now. It seems that this music I feel like creating isn't that of a folk song or an alternative rock ballade. It is different than that. I want to create a story through song, through a play. I've been thinking of ideas and books that could go perfectly in the musical setting, but have yet to find the perfect match that goes with the music I am writing. Musicals have been so diverse now that I feel like I can dive into it with no problem at all. In high school, I had the thoughts of writing an orchestration to a song just because it felt like I needed and wanted to write in order for my mind to grow. It was performed at the last concert of the year. I am having the same yearning thoughts to create a musical and I don't feel like these thoughts will leave until I get more ideas underway. But then again, I might never want these thoughts to leave. As for now, I will practice more piano in hopes that the melody will find me and find words to go with it.

50.

According to money.cnn.com, Longmont is ranked 50 in the top 100 places to live. It appears that we get 300 days of sunshine. But I must say that this rain we have been getting is a nice change. It shows all these stats from amount of leisure activities to amount spent on vacation to the low temperature in January. It was very interesting to see all this and compare other top cities. Also, Ft. Collins is ranked in the number 2 spot. Go Colorado?!


Come Pick Me Up by Ryan Adams

C-Minor.

New piano piece up on the space in C-minor. It is an improvisation and I felt like recording something with new effects. I was in a creative mood this evening and wanted to mess around with the piano, so, enjoy? I even printed out some staff paper and started to write another piece with some possible melody ideas. We shall see where it heads.

Un Nuovo Mese.

One more month exactly till classes start up at Whitworth. I'm actually excited to get focused and start school. Due to the high enrollment rate at school, there was no room for me to live on campus, so they asked me to find a place off campus. Thankfully Katie Petitt was able to put a good word in for me to the house she is in for the summer. I'll be living in a seven person house one block away from school. It will be really convenient because I won't have a car and that my skateboard will only go so far. I also think that the music building is really close by, which will be extremely beneficial because it will basically be my second home while at school. It will be interesting adjusting to Whitworth's standards and seeing in full what is expected of me. I have to prepare 30 minutes of memorized music this spring for my Junior recital. So I'm sure that four hours of practicing a day will be expected, but I'm excited and ready to dive into more repertoire. I'm also going to take a look at the theatre department and see what they are all about. I would like to get more experience on stage and it will help with the performance aspect of the piano. It seems that being away from home and the busyness of work, I'll have more of a focus to write more music and lyrics this fall. My mind has been in so many places the summer with the whole transferring process and with work. It has been extremely difficult to focus on music that I want to create but lack the motivation to compose. All I have left to say is that I am ready for this new place. I honestly can't wait.



Goods (All In Your Head) by Mates Of State