primordial soup

there was a drier in the bedroom, various bits of laundry, cushion covers, underwear, the like...

it's one of these standing up ones, that get thinner as you pull them out, the same kind of mechanism to those cartoon extend-a-hands...

anyway i woke up holding on to it, as if it were the answer... i think that if i'd put it down while i was still asleep it would have remained standing, but being as i woke up as i was holding it it all went wrong and i got back into bed with it lying awkwardly on the floor...

i've been reading a copy of scientific american that floopy & T found when they were moving and assumed it was mine (it wasn't, but it is now), and it's concerned with theories of the early universe...

the words primordial soup came up, and now i'm writing a tune based on a cycle of 5ths going up to exactly the point where another cycle of 4ths will bring it back down to the same place...

this on the rhodes, i'm going to add harmonium & voice later...

it's primordial, and currently quite soupy...

i've got a tin of lentil soup in the cupboard and you know what, i'm going to primordially eat/drink it...

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e=mc squared

does mariah carey understand what this equation means?

in any way?

does she get asked about it in interviews..? is there a clause in her contract that she is not to be asked what it means?

or does she in fact have an interest in physics and is perfectly able to explain not only what the equation means but the ramifications of the special theory of relativity...

it's hard to hear it but here is einstein talking about e=mc squared,

we went to see the film with the music tonight... it's such a strange thing writing music and then seeing it in it's place, it always freaks me out a bit, added to which i have this flu/cold thing which means i'm a little out there, you know how slight feverishness can do...

ah, that's nice, i recently moved a whole bunch of mp3's from my old computer to my new seemingly bottomless hard drive and after einsteins voice my itunes decided to play me a skryabin study, (this is because i had ordered my itunes by song length)... this new phone of mine is ushering in an mp3 renaissance which is lovely,

there's music on this hard drive i had forgotten all about, but i miss my little ipod shuffle, the new pone wants to be as great as the little shuffle but the experience is just not as good yet as the shuffle with itunes used to be... if only the little fella would work again...

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yr2wk43 rhodes & filter improvisation

@ 7:53 pm last night i emailed an mp3 of the film music over to the film-maker, it was my intention to then go over to floopy's to check out the track on his great speakers... then take the uncompressed file to M directly,

but i spoke to M the film-maker and he said he had no time and it sounded fine, and then this morning i slept right through 11 O'clock when i was due to be over @ floopy's whose sound card had broken anyway...

so it's done, the door is closed, it's being shown @ 6:00 this very evening...

the improvisation took place before i'd finished the composition and of course it took about 3 or 4 hours to deal with... i always think i can deal with it in an hour or so but it's never true these days x

starlight comes down

when my old friend J came round for dinner and a floor to sleep on last night i had written half of the music for the 2:36 film that's being shown tomorrow night...

i've now progressed by around 45 seconds and i'm at the crucial 10 or so seconds where it all goes on...

i'm surprisingly calm... this may change...

looking at a larger time scale i am waiting for musical instruments, as reported over there my GEM piano module is at least 2 weeks away, probably 3 weeks... i've tracked down a klangbox version of the B4000 hammond organ emulator in rotterdam and i'm buying that once i get paid on friday, very few of them in this continent is what i think...

and i didn't get an improvisation in last week, so i'll be doing that today, in amongst the composition and the recording...