Slept badly and woke late. The morning was spent with tedious technical admin, then rendering the archive copies of the Sisyphus videos. I can't file the album fully until it's set up for distribution. This can wait until next week.
At 13:30, started transcribing the Strange Angles music. What a nice tune this is, as many of the Music Of Poetic Objects tunes are, but hideous to transcribe. The music shifts between 3/4 and 4/4 (the ticking rhythm is 5/4, mischievous) and my playing timing is sometimes hand independent in a way that's entirely due to expression, and impossible to score exactly. For playing, I practised a certain way, from a certain score, then loosened this up. Each hand was literally enraptured. My recording has an extra note in a bar throwing the bars out of place. Prometheus can't change beats-per-bar, it's fixed for the whole song.
I've ignored these things and represented it as neatly and correctly as I can, players may play expressively if needed. My original 'live' score from 2019 is close to the final one, but today's new score is more accurate, and includes the synth choir chords, and brass (scored for Horn in F, so reads a 5th higher in the stave), and everything else.
It's now past 19:00 and it's taken this long to score this. I knew this album would contain my most challenging pieces, so completing each track is a milestone. In occasional breaks I've watched the mixed-doubles curling at the Winter Olympics, by chance I've watched every match of this so far. I tend to record these and watch back at double speed. I noted that most human entertainments are about 75 to 120 minutes; feature films, many sports, operas etc. This time span seems to be optimal for a grand work.
