Back to The Infinite Forest these two days. Little done yesterday, I slept so badly and awoke late, tired and unmotivated, but managed to complete the stereo panning and balancing of all tracks, and start on the process of adding scenes, a journey narrative to it all. Awake again for most of last night, from 2am to almost 7am, but woke today with enthused, partly due to reading my beloved Beethoven book in the night. It's no exaggeration to say that the gift of this book in Christmas 2014 changed my life; I read and refer to it so often for pleasure.
Good progress on the music, though these things always take more time nowadays. Even if the music was instantly finished it will take a week or so just to check everything, divide and prepare the tracks, file everything, develop the artwork etcetera.
One challenge of the day was creating the sound of a moth or butterfly flapping in the air, and in a jar. This involved heavily filtered white noise with a triangle wave wah-effect with only a tiny range of modulation and very fast, then a mix of panning. The first half of the album is about nature and scenes from the forest itself, but then the listener/protagonist is transformed into a butterfly and captured by a Victorian scientist, before finding freedom at the end.
