With the Brass Bed, I arrange the bits for horns and bass, each player having a skeleton to flesh out in the playing. The music industry is so much about negotiation and reputation that the variety of possible deals is endless, and the quality of the deal will depend on your strength as a negotiator. It depends on the deal. My diary is good for my memory. The pointform diary.
Songs are also a diary, albiet a selective and veiled one.
I'm big on improvising words over music. The video I'm working on is so far about objects that fit together to give a curio-store feel to the film. There are broken toys, instruments, machines, bones. It's like these old ubiquitous items that hang around are like hauntings from a forgotten past, the only tangible things left. It's all very raw and intended to have S8 animations edited in.