To Resume Or Not To Resume

A few months ago I stopped doing this daily compositional regime because, frankly, I had so much else going on at the time something had to give, and it didn’t seem like Tuna Day was making much in the way of inroads into our overall musical culture.

Though that’s not why I was doing it, still, would be nice to know folks appreciated it and maybe found it interesting.

If I’m going to resume, tomorrow will be day one of a new years worth of Tuna Day, because this isn’t the kind of thing I’ll stop until I’ve filled another year. If I start, that is.

But do I want to go through it again?

I’ve already proven to myself if I want I can come up with as many musical kernels on a moments notice as I care to.

And does anybody besides me even care? I wonder. When I closed this several months ago I offered to provide a full PDF of the entire years worth of tunes, along with an incipits file so you could easily find one in particular, for any kind of donation, no matter how small. Want to know how many of you out there took me up on that offer?

Nobody.

Which means one of the things that would have delighted me, hearing other people work with some of these to make their own music with them, which is really what any composer wants, is unlikely to happen.

So my decision to resume will have to be based purely upon whether or not I want to not only deal with this daily regime again, but also go thru the motions of preparing a daily post to substack, which, to be honest, takes almost as much time as composing and setting each tune, because I don’t think it’s going to lead to anything more than an oddball eccentric curiosity lurking on an obscure corner of Substack.

Will I do it again?

Tomorrow will tell.