A difficult night last night, with stomach pain and sleeplessness. I did make notes about the music, at times still a prisoner of the failed parade music. Of course, anything will actually do, anything half-decent will fit fine in the album, but half-decent isn't enough! I listened to the opening to the Missa Solemnis in the night, and thought of a more up-beat opening to the Catholic Christian section of the album. Originally the doubting priest part comes near the start of this, before the guilt-based Dark Night Watchman, but now I think an entry by God might work well first. Now it's a matter of doing it.
The main work of the day, if only to distract myself, is to complete the Future Pool soundtrack, but I also wrote a piece of music which is a bit like Bach's Air on a G-String. My version uses a simple principle of starting high, then dropping an octave at the repeat, and playing a new high melody over the top, then repeating this, until four voices are playing.
It sounds nice, but the string sounds need to be very good for something like this (oh for some real players!). I often toy with saw-wave based strings, and these sound better than ever now, very close to real strings in the upper and mid ranges, but not at all in the lower ranges where they buzz and flange like a Commodore 64 SID tune and don't remotely have the growl and loveliness of real a cello or contrabass. Perhaps a lot more layers are needed; upper strings are very pure, but lower ones have a lot of gravelly noise.
