Late last year, not too long after I had released Inside The Beat, I started working on a new song that I called “The Optic Nerve”.  It had a much more noisy sound to it than my previous work and would probably be described as some sort of industrial music.

For the longest time I was stuck with what to do for a melody or verse section.  I knew that I wanted it to have lyrics or some sort of spoken word section, but I just couldn’t find anything to fit.  Searching at archive.org (which, by the way, is where I found the audio for I Love Penguins) didn’t turn up anything worthwhile, and my attempt at writing lyrics wasn’t going so well, either.  But it was still a good song, so I placed it on the back burner and decided to come back to it at a later date.

I finally revisited it a couple of days ago after finding recording of a woman giving a talk on the whole 2012 thing.  It had a really trippy feel to it, and her pacing actually matched the song’s BPM quite nicely.  But my initial enthusiasm waned after I played around with it for a few days.  Thus I forked the project, removed the vocals, and went back to the drawing board.

We’ll see what comes of it within the next few days.  I’ve since gone back to my original lyrics and have started rewriting them yet again.  But I think it’s for the best, as they’re taking on a much more cyberpunk feel that’s closer to what I originally imagined for them.