A day of music admin. Transferred 3 more albums, plus the new 'All Controlled By Someone' single, and the 2025 remaster of The End And The Beginning for a 22 August release. I'd prefer a longer pause before that major relaunch, but the new album and its single also clutter up the release line. I really need to finish transferring the remaining 16 albums or so to clear everything, and I'd perhaps like another new EP about war. I wish I lived near Tor so we could collaborate and communicate more on such things.
About 50% of my albums still need sheet music, and I need to reorganise the sheet music I have. Many albums lack videos of any sort. It would at least be nice to have more for The End And The Beginning. The only tracks with videos are two instrumentals and the song 'A.I.', which has my 2009 vocals. The videos do not at all indicate the sort of music on the album, which is 80s electro-pop filled with Tor's amazing (and Alison Moyet-esqe) vocals. I feel I can't really make high quality videos without Tor being in them, but perhaps I can make some animated videos of some sort, something that is better than nothing. That would at least help showcase his considerable 2009 talent (I'm certain he's an even better singer today).
'Challenger' took 45 minutes to compile today using FFMpeg. Argus could probably animate it much more quickly. I may have even been able to duplicate and re-animate the entire video in one day, and make it better looking to boot, but it's interesting to see what is perhaps the origin of this sort of 'lights matching the notes' video. There's an old blog post on here all about the making of this video using AviSynth.
Tonight I'm taking part in a poetry slam. I don't really write 'slammy' poems, which are typically amusing and full of rhymes, more like stand-up comedy than literature, but with even more of a 'look at me' cry of desperation. I must remember that if Shakespeare were to enter, even with his 500-year-old poetry, he would certainly win. It's nice to be invited to a poetry event. I've neglected poetry since 2020, that year of a shift in my art. This might be my first participation on a poetry event in 5 years.
