nov 25

finished putting together the recorded portion of my composition last night/this morning. i knew it was going to be a tremendous amount of work, but i really am surprised looking back on it. there were the weeks experimenting with preparing the piano with different materials, and recording the relevant data regarding how to reproduce it (which screw type where, length from damper, etc), and then experimenting with the mallets that andrew rideout was generous enough to llet me borrow...then creating a conceptual grasp of the soundworld i wanted to create and the pallet i had to work with, which included me drawing "maps" (with crayons!) to use as a semi-concrete reference point...well, besides all of that, the recording/processing took over 6 hours. and the end result is 3 minutes and 44 seconds of material. what a night.