{"id":1329,"date":"2017-11-04T21:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2017-11-21T03:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T03:10:24","slug":"connections-and-creations-part-5-ever-think-youve-lost-your-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/connections-and-creations-part-5-ever-think-youve-lost-your-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections and Creations. Part 5: Ever Think You’ve Lost Your Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wednesday 18th<\/sup> October<\/h3>\n

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It\u2019s three days since I was at the Isle of Wight.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to get in touch with Dwayne about the drone footage but I think he must have been very busy as there was no answer.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave it to fate.\u00a0 If I\u2019m meant to have the drone footage, he will send it.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to keep bothering him as he was doing me a favour.\u00a0 I\u2019ve started to edit something together out of what I have.\u00a0 It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s better than nothing at all. I take a deep breath and shutdown the editing software and reopen the song instead.\u00a0 The choir sounds incredible.\u00a0 In fact, it sounds so good that the song needs drums, and possibly strings too.\u00a0 And this is an area I really feel supported in and extremely fortunate. With the music, I don\u2019t feel the limitations.\u00a0 Within a few hours I have programmed drums on the song and written and played a simple bassline too.\u00a0 In the afternoon, Jonathan Hill \u2013 my dear old friend and literal \u2018extra string to my bow\u2019 comes round and records about 16 tracks of violin, viola and contra viola. I recall Amanda Palmer talking about how many people do not understand an exchange of skills that doesn\u2019t involve money.\u00a0 And she\u2019s right, it\u2019s alien to many people.\u00a0 But it\u2019s how I have managed to keep producing music.\u00a0 Love and friendships.\u00a0 And it still moves me even after all these years, that through love and friendship, the dreams we imagine can become realities.\u00a0 Jono casually packs away his \u00a31 million violin and scoots off to do a show. I start to mix the song and forget all about my struggle with the video. I keep an eye on Kathy\u2019s fundraiser<\/a> which has reached about \u00a31500. I\u2019m pleased, but I hope we reach the goal. And I really hope the song will help to raise awareness. The song is never going to make money because it would need a full advertising campaign, but we can use it to promote the fundraiser. The song is<\/em> the advert really.<\/h3>\n

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By about 2am I am listening to the mix and it\u2019s okay but the programmed drums just sounds really inappropriate against all the authentic instrumentation. I head into the kitchen and make one of my Spanish Tortillas which reminds me of Spain and my mum’s place. I take half an hour off to refuel and stop listening. As I swallow my last mouthful of Tortilla, I feel a little lost and alone and not sure if I’ll be able to achieve what I am imagining in my head with the song or the video. \u00a0It\u2019s 3 o\u2019clock in the morning. But wait, that means it\u2019s 10\u2019clock at night in Canada.\u00a0 I need help and I am going to ask some friends in Canada if they might be able to answer the call.<\/h3>\n

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My friends Ben (in Toronto) and Alexy (in Montreal) are two of the most talented, thoughtful and kind musicians I know. We are great friends who share a common unknown journey together.\u00a0 We never know where it\u2019s headed, but we can pretty much see the steps laid out in front of us on that journey.\u00a0 A few steps at a time, but we both know we are, for now, headed in the same direction.\u00a0 Miraculously, Alexy is going to record some drums at Ben\u2019s place in Toronto and between them they have offered up the possibility of recording drums and mixing the song for me next week!\u00a0 It\u2019s incredible, because these are two skills that I do not have, which they both possess in abundance.\u00a0 When love and skill together come together, expect a miracle.\u00a0 I think this could be really amazing. Still no sign of the drone footage. But the sound is coming together!<\/h3>\n

Have you missed the first four chapters of this story?\u00a0<\/em>Go here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n

To donate to help Kathy get back on her feet again, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Ben Pelchat, Tim Arnold and Alexy Guerer, Toronto, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 18th October It\u2019s three days since I was at the Isle of Wight.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been trying to get in touch with Dwayne about the drone footage but I think he must have been very busy as there was no answer.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave it to fate.\u00a0 If I\u2019m meant to have the drone footage, he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[121,101,67,120,102,103,106,109,107,124,74,72,100,80,108,122,105,104,94,53,123,29,69,78],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Ben-and-Alexy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarnold.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}