In Which Mark Fails to Compose Anything

[reldnahkram]

Have spend the last 2.5 hours in Lang, failing spectacularly to compose anything for my meeting with Jerry tomorrow. I've got a few snippets and scraps that maybe can be expanded on the train tomorrow, we'll see. About the only nifty thing I was able to do was figure out how to play a deck of cards. Yes, a deck of cards. Clubs = 1 beat, Diamonds 2, Hearts 3, Spades 4. Choose a slow tempo. Aces are rests. 2 corresponds to middle C, chromatically ascending through the ranks to King at B above middle C. Jack is A440. I've gotten to the point where I can pretty much do this in real time - flip the cards with my left hand, play with the right. Whee!

Hmm...I've not been sleeping well of late. Should remember to sleep more. (If I had been sleeping more, I'd probably have remembered to write this the first time I made this post)

Comments

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that the Current Music is ome of the more promising scraps you were able to come up with?

No, I'm not doing too well on the composition front, either (and I've got miles to go before I sleep...)

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

You should also try fitting the marked deck into this somehow. Perhaps come up with a musical representation of a hand of 5-man Commie bridge for tomorrow's meeting?