In addition to thinking about the sound matter, I also started wondering if there was something I missed in learning to play the guitar. Beyond passion and talent. I concluded that what I lacked most was playing in ensembles. With all due respect and gratitude for my instrument teachers, I learned the most in a pizzeria in Gliwice, playing weekly for two years in a duo with a fellow flutist. Mainly arrangements of popular songs. It was there that I better understood what the pulse in music is and why it matters, how different types of texture work, what the realities of dynamics in a specific space are, and perhaps most importantly, I gained some relative comfort and ease in playing. At least partially, I rid myself of the paralyzing impression that performing music was about being observed rather than listened to, in anticipation of mistakes and stumbles. I also realized in that pizzeria that it was not for me, but that's another topic.

The proposal concerned the guitar but allowed for other possibilities, including configurations of different instruments. I'll stick with the guitar and pair it with a cello. I know also a thing or two about the strings. So I think.

The collection is intended to have educational value. Non-musical themes are also welcome, as I was told. I thought about planets. More than one career has shone with the solar system in the background. But the familiar eight (sometimes nine) planets might already be well-worn. Here, there will be other planets.