Looking to next year's Music

I just got an e-mail from the guy who runs our Performance Workshop course (Dr. Stapleton). Next semester, after the submission of all necessary coursework, we'll get to choose our own ensembles. Hallelujah... the way is open for me to branch out in creative directions that were closed to me! I reckon a group who can incorporate pre-recordings, samples, loops and signal processing into an electroacoustic performance/composition environment is now open! Who's afraid of ambient music? I'm very excited about the possibilities now (potentially) open to me. I'll start now, and when I get the E-bow and delay pedal, my sound continues to develop.

It's so important for me to have a creative outlet, and I felt that the guys I was working with (who don't like the sort of things I do/like) were curbing that. My other band doesn't have the same scope for experimentation either, much as I enjoy it, blues is quite hard to reconcile with free-tempi electroacoustic stuff. So I fully intend to grasp this opportunity. :-D I'll revisit this later to set some firm goals, after consulting with (probably) Eimear. I think I want to look into using MaxMSP to try and refine my guitar sound, it's the most powerful tool I could have...

I've made a playlist on last.fm of some of the music which is influencing me, if anyone is interested. I'm sorry if this post is indecipherable. I feel very lucky though, to be on a course which nurtures my creativity so much.