Musical Garden
Juggling multiple projects
There’s a choral piece I’ve been trying to write for maybe a year now. There are plenty of other projects I’d like to work on, but I’ve been hesitant to shift my focus. My worry is that if I let anything else distract me, I might never come back to this piece, and it’s important that I finish it. But given how slowly I’m going with this piece, the result is that I end up working very little on music.
I’m now wondering if it might be a better idea to work on multiple things at once instead. Daily work on the choral piece is still a priority, but it maybe doesn’t need a 100% allotment of my creative attention. Ideally, other projects will create some sort of momentum that I’m currently lacking. They can cross-pollinate each other with ideas, potentially leading to a way forward for my main project.
This blog is another project I want to take on in order to gain some momentum. I like to think and talk about music almost as much as I like to make and listen to it, so writing seems like a natural extension of my musical activities. I hope that having a place to give my thoughts written form will help them develop over time. And if I’m lucky, it will even help me break creative blocks and make better music.
Do you find that working on multiple things at once is helpful or harmful to your creative process? Let me know your thoughts at alex@musical.garden.