A slower day, yet the day has flown. I woke at 9:30 and didn't want to get up due to a million sighs. Perhaps suicide is the answer I thought, as Tom Baker also once thought, to the pointlessness and poverty of my doomed existence - but no! We are to die anyway, so that is no answer. All existence is equally doomed, and yet equally valid. We must do our best to extend our life.
Borges writes about infinity a lot; of course there can be no infinity in the real world. I read that if each effect is the result of a cause, then that cause must also have a cause, and so on forever, which proves that the universe is impossible. My refutation of this argument is that causes and effects are human perceptions built from our evolutionary need to make predictions. There is no actual cause of anything in the real universe; it merely is. Our belief in a 'cause' is a probable, and personally validated, prediction based on our life experience, nothing more. If we move our eyes up a tree, a branch may appear, so we may predict a branch every so often, but that doesn't mean the trunk has caused the branch - it's merely there as part of the tree.
I eased my body up.
There are often times when things have been done, dangerous times of relaxation, when in actually a job is never done. I started by adding the vocals to the last track we've recorded, The River Where You Used To Swim. I'm still too deaf to mix anything, which is annoying, but life is never perfect. Each day is to precious to doom away.
I got to work on Mr Tambourine Man, the sequence for another Fall in Green track, but this one destined to be a single release not on any album. Then started work on transcribing the sheet music for the new album. This wasn't on my list of jobs, but it needs doing, so I began, and made good progress. A few tracks are already transcribed well, notably 'Sunchild' and 'Sky Robes Of Celeste', and a few have well scored versions for live performance, though these have changed now I've recorded them.
So, today I scored We Used To Store Sunlight, The (very beautiful) River Where You Used To Swim, and Kingfisher's Handcup. These are all rather time consuming, and involve importing the MIDI sequence to Prometheus, then exporting a neater version to Sekaiju, then neatening it all up yet more, then importing that into MuseScore.
