First, work on Heart of Snow today. Some inspirations for the music are Under Ice by Kate Bush for the general mood, All In One Day by Ultravox for the epic quality, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd for the drifting, introspective quality. Wish You Were Here has hardly any melody in the lead vocal (as is often the case with Floyd), the melody is in the guitar sub-lead. I've made the 'reeds' in the song lead and follow the main vocal melody so that they interact, and there is a viola following up like a companion who wants to join in the conversation.
In other news, the Neorenaissance book is ready for publishing. This made me think that books today, particularly print-to-order books such as those printed by Amazon, are more rare and valulable than any books before because they are so few in number. Before this, 50 or 100 books was probably the bare minimum quantity in existence, but even poor performing books would have numbered in the several hundred. Now, books that have quantities in single digits are probably very common, almost like the hand printed books of William Blake's day. I've considered that after the initial order for the poets and museum I withdraw the book to make it truly a rare art book.
