Finalised the Salome notation yesterday. Gosh, it took far longer than I expected, especially considering that all of the music was notated to start with, but inaccurately. Like the final proof-reading of a book, the last stages of making every note right takes so much work. It's take about 3 full days overall to notate the 12 tracks, just for solo piano. Adding the strings and other instruments should be a little easier. I notated The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke too, so this album, 1 of 64, is all done.
Also yesterday a trip to see Simon, my oldest friend, on occasion of his 50th birthday. He has so much knowledge of TV, film, every actor and director in everything for decades, it seems, and a great knowledge of history. At the rare and occasional pub-quiz events we used to take part in, Simon knew 90% of the answers. Science is probably my specialist subject.
Today, updated my Steam games with new (required) graphics. These products involve constant plate-spinning to keep them alive. A welcome sale of the Flatspace music and The Spiral Staircase cheered the morning, and the money is instantly useful for archive materials.
Next jobs are to archive my album collection, and notate more. The Anatomy of Emotions and Cycles & Shadows, and the Fall in Green albums are perhaps the most complex to notate, but again, those have been notated already to some degree. It would be good for me to notate some other albums like Pi, or a song album, to test my MIDI export. I could add lyrics to the sheet music too. It's all extra work, a lot of it. One day, I will publish all of these correctly, and will notate all future albums from now on as I make them. This is far more important than, for example, the Spotify Canvases for that transient platform on the transient internet.
May God and St. Luke grant me the years and decades to do this, and to make 64 more albums! On we charge.
