A few solid days working on the Marius Fate re-workings. The final track, The Trees, hardly needed any changes, although all of the tracks have been rebalanced. This begins the long and tedious process of listening and re-listening. At times like this I often wave between thinking that it's all terrible or that it's all brilliant. It's a matter of doing your best, trying to learn and improve, but not linger too long.
It's amazing that this was recorded, for its second time, in 2019 because things seem to have improved so much since, but my improvements have been slow, steady, incremental. Most of my work improves like that.
One thing of note in the sound is the lack of auto-tuning which is now so prevalent that this album has an anachronistic sound, an 1980s/2020s hybrid.
Today I've updated Prometheus to v2.84, one of many updates this year. A few small changes and improvements. One was the addition of a format button on the Modulator and Sample displays:
Deb and I have also signed an agreement to adapt and perform a new work based on Loving Lou Salomé by Stefano Santachiara. Deb has written some great words for this already and it will be good to take part in a genuinely international work, as well as something new and different. We need at least one album per year, and if each if different, so much the better.
To cement the Marius re-release I may make more Marius Fate music. This should be electro-art-pop of some sort. I always wanted and intended to create a Marius Fate trilogy.
