Tag: collaboration

  • Experiments in Stereo Pt 2

    Picture of an audio soundboard
    Photo by Anthony Roberts on Unsplash

    Good evening all. I wanted to circle back on this to give people incentive to play along with me and experiment with songwriting. While there were two Brave and Hearty Souls who joined in on my little bit of play last week, I would really like to give others an opportunity to jump in and show the world they lyrical writing chops.

    The idea was to give you a rough idea of the sound and see what you might come up with if you were the lyricist for a band without actually having heard the song. In this case, I asked folks to think like Andrew Eldritch from Sisters of Mercy, bored in some dark nightclub wishing you hadn’t used up all of your amphetamine while the night was so young. He had a some new catchy lyrics that he wanted to write, but no music to write them to. Well, maybe it was not exactly that, but you get the idea…

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  • Collaborative yaks

    Image of a writing journal and a pencil.
    Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash

    In case you were unaware and sat there wondering, “I wonder if this Michael Raven chap is up for a bit of collaborative something or another…” — let it be known that I generally am up for combining energies to make something bigger than I can do on my own, provided the chemistry is there.

    There are a ton of possibilities:

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  • your river | a collaboration with tara caribou

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    Photo by Anthony Roberts on Unsplash

    While I was taking my little break from the internet, I wasn’t just twiddling my thumbs. I was not only doing extensive introspective writing (journaling I guess it could be called) and writing in private, but I was working on other creative endeavors as well. One of those was to follow up on a request made several years ago by Tara Caribou, owner Raw Earth Ink (publisher of my book of poetry, galdr, among other fine books) and fellow collaborator on reach (another music/poetry effort) as well as other poetry pieces.

    While we had agreed to do something like this in principle back in 2022 or 2023, one or both of us was busy (or, in my case, musically tapped out) and we could never seem to get our ducks in a row (I’ll take the blame, I’m the one who generally over-schedules myself).

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