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Composing most of the day, which consists of jumping around different parts of the score, notating down little fragments, slicing things apart and together.  Get bored in one area and then you jump into another.  Every once in a while, you get a giant swirl that you can hear the whole piece [...]

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Mixed bag of trinket tasks this weekend.  

Worked through segment three of the interval cycle.  Wanted to start segment four but I ran out of time.  
Played around with a couple of ideas for two new works.  I should really start thinking of moving on to these – which are chamber works and not such [...]

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Back today.  Long day yesterday working the day gig and the ubiquitous gym, table tennis routine with a touch of chess thrown in at the last minute – got a call from The Gardener requesting a match, which I won 4 out of 4 games.  Oh yes I am delusional good.  And my time wasting routines [...]

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After umpteen months, I finally finished this book.  What the user is presented is 100 chess positions and two questions per position.  It takes about 20 minutes to work through each and they are ambiguious as hell.  When you get done you add up your score and the results are broken down into different categories [...]

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Lovely weekend.  Weather was terrific.  I found time to finish the harmony for segment 2 – at least a rough draft of it.  Not final but outlines most of what we made.  We can refine later when we have the full pass.  Still unsure how I will imbue movement into these chords.  When to start [...]

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Crazy day.  I knew it would be this way when I went up the hill in the dark to put down my feeders for the Turkeys – something I manage to do every morning before heading off to do other things.  Imagine my surprise when my flashlight hits the eyes of one fat Mr Skunk whom I have named [...]

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Downtime Wednesday.  Too hot to work, and the day gig has some interesting side activities that have me distracted.  Hid in Starbucks for a while in the evening playing some chess with the gardener, and did well.  Then home for some chores, and not a note of music was thought. 
Looks like another scorcher today, and [...]

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Saturday, I put some hours into this chair and started to use Sibelius to capture some of the notations and sketches of this violin work.  Of course, its not flushed and true, but it outlines that it needs to be expanded in depth here and there,  so, it’s serving a purpose.  And, [...]

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