TAYLOR ROSS™|MUSIC

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This is a blog about me making art everyday for a year, and one day.

Film composer Ronen Landa, who has scored the music for shows on both Netflix and Peacock, including the main theme for Paul T. Goodman, once told me in class that,

"You can't make art 365 days a year"
     -Ronen Londa

I respect his knowledge and experience. Furthermore, I'm a fan of his music (I mean, just listen to this!) and I know that his words are sensible, reasonable, and down-to-earth advice for any aspiring and working musician, writer, actor, painter, [insert art-verb here], but I'm not a sensible, reasonable, down-to-earth kind of person. I'm a real head-in-the-clouds kind of person, which is why my immediate response was setting the goal of making art for 365 days a year. 

I wrote this down in my lovely little yellow idea notebook. 

Composer Taylor Ross’s lovely little yellow idea notebook showing the original entry that sparked this blog.

Oh right, I keep a lovely little yellow idea notebook. This started in 2020, I'm on my third one now. I read somewhere that any really committed artist is always willing to drop everything - like detrimental mid-conversations with loved ones, everything - to make sure that they capture the essence of whatever popped into their head that caused the spark, and to capture an amber that you can blow on somewhere down the road.

I'm that way now. 

I have some idea of the format in which I'll be presenting this project, but as with anything, getting started is more important than succeeding, so for now I'll just give the following restrictions;

1. MAKE ART DAILY. To me, this is primarily a music-focused practice, but I’ll also be working on poetry and verse for the music that I make, but I have to have something to show for it. This is where the second bit comes in at.
2. BLOG POST DAILY – beginning July 1st ’23, and ending June 30th, ’24

The end result of this project is an album that I record throughout the process, and a run of custom vinyl pressings (see my Bio). My colleague, dear friend, and valued contemporary Rusty Rehl will be designing and creating the cover art for the album and the physical release. 

I also hope that I can offer something of value to anybody that may be looking. I'm sharing everything with others because others have shared everything with me.

One more thing . . . 2024 is a leap year, so I have the added benefit of outperforming my quota by one day. 

Hence, 366 Days of Making Art.