A full day of busy work, yet not very productive. The morning was taken up with a meeting about the Christmas album, then paperwork for that, taking and making notes, sharing the news with the contributors.
By 16:30 I could start on other things and completed the scores to 'Time, Falling' (this, by the way, is the correct punctuation for this), and 'Engrams of History'. These live improvised piano tunes are particularly complex. These need note-by-note editing in a very time consuming fashion.
Second Spring has taken the last two hours and it's still not finished. This track is very difficult. Two of the confused bass notes didn't fit well enough and have been deleted, but everything else is there with highly quantised timing (ie. backwards anti-expression; just as every performance is expressive, every score removes this, tightens up all timing). All of these piano tunes are far, far more expressive than the score indicates, which itself is interesting. Most of the album is scored now, though the most time consuming works remain. The hardest one so far is Quick Get Your Lows, which is ironically one of the easiest to play... perhaps I should notate my playing score instead.
These scores are mentally and physically tiring, and for little reward, yet I know that nobody else could do this at the moment. Perhaps the dreamed-of AI will do it one day, though, would it be bothered to do so? AI today remains as poor as it was in the 1980s, and as hyped and feared. It can do some things, like photo colourisation and image sharpening, translation and text/speech recognition, brilliantly, but in terms of actual 'intelligence', it has little. Even the error spotting in Visual Studio is so wrong that I could rant at it with many cries of "but that's NOT an error!".
I hope to finish tomorrow, or perhaps then start on the EQ system. The week is flying by!
