OMG

SPLINTER WHISTLES WHEN SPUN! Splinter is a singing staff! In addition to being a flute and a walking stick. I mean, it's perfectly reasonable, I'd even wondered whether that would happen when I first toyed with the idea of making a flute like this but then I forgot about it. Until just now, anyway, when I was screwing around in the living room and OMG WHISTLE. ("TYRANNOSAURS in F-14s!" "This is SO cool!" "This is SO stupid!")

Anyway. Shouldn't be going OMG about my own instruments. Sorry. Right. Back to the new melody segment, which is what I was screwing around with when I discovered this surprising flute property.

NaNoteWriMo Continues

EOD November 5th: Rather late with this, but: 3m or so of new recording; one melody and permutations, maybe another melody - it's kind of rough and I lost the first recording, which is bad as that lost recording was part of my notes. Foo.

One of the things I need to do now is play with some of these, see how and if these fit together; I think pretty strongly that one of the two things I put down on disc today is actually going to be part of a piece I put down on the 3rd. That's good, in that it would mean that I have pretty much all the major themes for a reasonably extensive little bit of music. But I'll have to see. ^_^

Quota comparisons are difficult but from a sheer numbers standpoint I am ahead of schedule, but these are really... I guess the comparison would be a roughed-in outline? More than notes, more than an outline, but less than first draft. Somewhere in there. From 131 minutes free originally on this disc I now have 94 minutes free, putting me at 37 minutes of recorded outline and notes. Given that all of these will expand, I have hopes for getting enough base material actually written to make 50 minutes of (rough-draft) album on schedule.