Progress and apologies

Once again - sorry for not contributing. Spending more than the day light hours working and sleeping in the nighttime, the blog is simply the part of my life that I have least time for. Preparations for the Körkarlen concert are moving forward. I feel a constant pain in my chest puzzling my life together. Thinking about how much we have left of the concert unrehearsed I sometimes feel partly catatonic. Rehearsals last night were a great success, and the band actually behaves as a band, as one unit. I am very satisfied with the ideas and the way they turn out, with the roles of all of the musicians. We have watched the film several times and now Jonas is working on a proper story board. We are working on giving each main character his or her own theme. There is no obvious main theme, although the themes of characters Edith, David Holm and Körkarlen himself are the ones most diligently used. If I was to describe our interpretation of the film, I would say that bass and drums at times are clearly inspired by Angelo Badalamenti, almost ridiculously so. There is also a portion of post rock in some of the songs, mainly my guitar. Some songs are centered around a repetitious beat on the floor tom and some are foremost dominated by ambient samples or a suggestive synth drone.

Sounds good? If you miss the concert, either because you've fled Lund or because you think 250 kronors is to high a price for this type of venue, don't be too upset! Attempts at recording the concert will be made. The recordings may be synced with the movie and in some way published. Anyway, the recording may be put on tape or CD-R, or accessible via this blog. The plans are blurry, since our main priority is to be able to play the concert at all.

Right now, I am turning my tape into mp3 files, so that those of you who bought my tape and don't own a tape player will be able to listen to the songs on that tape. If you are interested in the tunes, go to my myspace or email me at sistalivet@hotmail.com.

That's probably all for now. Thank you Aron for beautiful poems and other contributions of of importance. And thank you Theo for keeping us up to date with the progress of the Munka School. And thank you Jonas for informing us about new tracks on myspace and other useful stuff. And thank you readers all over the globe. It would be fun if every person who's read this post wrote a short comment. I don't know if I speak for all of the contributors to Swedish Technology, but I am at least interested in knowing how big our sphere may be. I will never pretend to be a cool blog post guy, all I will do is pretend to be me. So expect all posts signed Frans to be hopscotch and with millions of branches in all directions. You see, they are totally non elaborate and stream from my brain the moment I write. I have not been writing shit for quite a while. But I suppose you've already figured that one out. I am going to write. That is a promise.

Frans