Yesterday I spilt a bag of mizuna seeds on the floor. A pile of black dots on the floor that were very fiddly to pick up.
Last night I dreamt that the spilt seeds were crotchets and quavers. I wondered what would happen if I spilt the seeds on manuscript paper instead.
1] Blank staves and seeds
2] Seed drop
3] Outliers removed
4] Transcription
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Next stage: turn it into a song.
While it is possible to go direct from Bristol to Edinburgh, and from Bristol to Glasgow with one change, it is a long route and involves spending a long time on Cross Country trains (which I prefer to avoid). So when the need arose this week for me to work in Glasgow for the day, I experimented with a different route: via London and the Caledonian Sleeper.
Going from Bristol to London and then up to Scotland is taking two sides of the triangle. But if I can sleep for a decent chunk of the journey then it is very appealing.
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