A really tiring day or CD archiving, burning CD master copies of my albums. Perhaps the very process is overkill considering that it takes so long and is a lot of hard work, and that I have digitial copies of everything - but there are a a few benefits. I've already discovered several errors in my catalogue due to this, usually small things like track lengths - but this data is used all over the place, so even these errors are important to correct. The track lengths on Musicbrainz, for example, which I file upon completing an album, are certianly wrong for some tracks. The difference is slight and most commonly one second because I used to round the timings, not knowing that all music track timings are rounded down (ie. 2:34.8 secs is rounded to 2:34, I used to, wrongly, round these to 2:35).
Another benefit is that perhaps one day I'll not be able to used Sony CD Architect, and CD mastering software is probably as obsolescent at the medium, so a master copy might be useful to have because it may, one day, contain data I can't create in any other way.
I'll also have to correct the Cornutopia Music Catalogue. For reference, here is a list of all of my releases to date:
Album Releases
R1A Mark Sheeky, Synaesthesia (1999)
R2A Mark Sheeky, The Arcangel Soundtrack (1999)
R3A Mark Sheeky, The Incredible Journey (2002)
R4A Mark Sheeky, The Spiral Staircase (Original) (2002)
R5A Mark Sheeky, Flatspace (The Official Soundtrack) (2003)
R6A Mark Sheeky, Animalia (2004)
R7A Mark Sheeky, The Four Seasons Of Dance [EP] (2005)
R8A Mark Sheeky & Tor James Faulkner, The End And The Beginning (2009)
R11A Mark Sheeky, The Spiral Staircase (2008) [CD]
R12A Mark Sheeky, Stupid Computer Music (2008)
R13A Mark Sheeky, The Twelve Seasons (2008)
R15A Mark Sheeky, The Infinite Forest (2010)
R16A Mark Sheeky, Pi (2010)
R17A Mark Sheeky, Once Upon A Time (2010)
R18A The Harlequin Kings, Fear Of The Thing Itself (2015)
R20A Mark Sheeky, Flatspace II (The Official Soundtrack) (2011)
R21A Mark Sheeky, The Love Symphony (2012) [CD]
R23A Mark Sheeky, Bites Of Greatness (2013)
R24A Oldfield 1, Art By Machine (2014)
R26A Mark Sheeky, Synaesthesia (2015) [2015 Remaster]
R27A Mark Sheeky, The Anatomy Of Emotions (2016) [CD]
R28A Mark Sheeky, Cycles & Shadows (2017) [CD]
R30A Mark Sheeky, Genesis (c.1996) (2017) [2017 Remaster]
R31A The ArtsLab Collective, I, Leviathan (2017)
R32A Mark Sheeky, The Modern Game (2018)
R33A Fall in Green, Testing The Delicates [CD] (2018)
R39A Mark Sheeky, Tree Of Keys (2019)
R39B Mark Sheeky, Tree Of Keys (2021) [2021 Remaster]
R43A Mark Sheeky, Music Of Poetic Objects (2019) [CD]
R44A Marius Fate, The Modern Game (2019) [2019 Remaster] [BOOK]
R44B Marius Fate, The Modern Game (2022) [2022 Remaster] [BOOK]
R48A Mark Sheeky, Burn Of God (2020)
R48B Mark Sheeky, Burn Of God (2022) [2022 Remaster] [CD]
R50A Fall in Green, Apocalypse of Clowns (2021) [CD]
R51A Mark Sheeky, Animalia (2020) [2020 Remaster]
R52A Mark Sheeky, Synaesthesia (2020) [2020 Remaster]
R53A Mark Sheeky, The Dusty Mirror (2020)
R55A Mark Sheeky, The Myth Of Sisyphus (2021)
R56A Mark Sheeky, The Infinite Forest (2021) [2021 Remaster]
R57A Mark Sheeky, Synaesthesia (2002) [2002 Remaster]
R58A Mark Sheeky, Nightfood (2021)
R59A Fall in Green, Wonderland (2021)
R60A Mark Sheeky, Secret Electric Sorcery (2022)
R62A Fall in Green, Lou Salome Empathy With Daisies (2022)
R64A Mark Sheeky, Remembrance Service (2022)
EP Releases
R9A Mark Sheeky & Tor James Faulkner, Gunstorm (2007)
R19A Mark Sheeky, The Sky Disc (2011)
R29A Mark Sheeky, Finnegans Judgement (2017)
R34A Mark Sheeky, A Walk In The Countryside (2018)
R49A Fall in Green, War Is Over [EP] (2020) [CD]
R63A Heart Of Snow (2022)
Single Releases
R10A Mark Sheeky & Tor James Faulkner, Gunstorm (2007)
R35A Mark Sheeky, House Of Glass (2018)
R36A Fall in Green, Who Is Afraid / She Floats (2018)
R37A Mark Sheeky, Masculinity Two (2018)
R38A Fall in Green, Time Falling (2018)
R45A Marius Fate, Masculinity Two (2019) [2019 Remaster]
R45B Marius Fate, Masculinity Two (2022) [2022 Remaster]
R54A Fall in Green, Jabberwocky (2021)
Game Content
R25A Flatspace Music Pack 1 (2005)
R14A Flatspace Music Pack 2 (2008)
R22A Flatspace Music Pack 3 (2013)
R40A Flatspace IIk Music Pack 1 (2019)
R41A Flatspace IIk Music Pack 2 (2019)
R42A Flatspace IIk Music Pack 3 (2020)
R46A Future Snooker (2019)
R47A Future Pool (2019)
Now, you may wonder which album is 'best'. My music has gone through many phases. The electronic, Jarre-influenced, era had more epic works like The Spiral Staircase (which I still love) or Synaesthesia (the 2020 remaster of this 1999 work still shines as one of the best things I've done) as well as collections of instrumental music with a story or theme like The Twelve Seasons, Animalia, or The Infinite Forest; or albums of game-like melodic tunes, which are similar in quality (Stupid Computer Music, Bites Of Greatness, The Flatspace/Arcangel music). 'Best' is too subjective... all have pros and cons.
The live art-performance phase includes The Anatomy Of Emotions, Cycles & Shadows, Tree Of Keys, Music Of Poetic Objects, and spins off into the Fall in Green works, which continue to evolve.
Finally the more rock/pop types works, which you could say includes the (still good) The End And The Beginning as well as The Modern Game. The Dusty Mirror is surrealistic fun, still a favourite for me, though of all of this era so far, Nightfood remains my personal favourite, a love equivalent to The Spiral Staircase... but really, it's impossible for me to rate any of my artworks. It's amazing how my opinions have changed or flipped over the years, too. Things continue to evolve and grow.
For now, this archiving phase is proving to be exhausting. As well as making these CD archives, I'll be notating more of my music, but, as you can see, there is a lot to do.
