change of strategy. it's a little indulgent, but it's the only way to approach the material comprehensively that maintains both the conceptual unity of the period, in a historical sense, and the chronological continuity moving many years into the future.

i have four midi compositions from early 2001: stuck in the middle of an alley that is closing in on all sides, the symphony of psilocybin induced madness, the time machine and the intersection of two identical particles moving in complete opposite directions. together, this implies that i was feeling trapped studying particle physics and responded by doing mushrooms and reading science fiction. or maybe not.

each of these tracks has multiple different versions, not the least of which includes a stark contrast between a midi version and a version with live guitars (although only the second has been recorded with live guitars, as of now). so, i'm going to record these tracks with live guitars. this is what i'm doing, here, i'm cleaning up my old tracks. i've hit the point where it's time to actually record some music.

i'm going to package it up in three ways (and for the symphony, actually 5). first, each of these tracks will come in their own singles. the singles will include midi mixes, live mixes and mixes in between. second, the midi mixes will be extracted to form their own lp, with a release date at the end of 2001 (and that also includes further midi songs, including a perverted choral piece (i'm going to think about ways to create this using samples) and a rave version of beethoven's fifth). third, the live versions will be further sequenced together in tetris.

this will allow the listener to either (1) listen to all the versions of a specific song, and/or (2) listen to all the midi versions of all the songs and/or (3) listen to all the live versions of all the songs.

however, i'm putting this on pause for a few days. i've been neglecting my reading in a rush to get to the point where i have some recording to do. it won't take more than a few days to catch up on the reading, at which point i'll put my schedule (half day reading, half day recording) back in place.

you can follow along with the reading over here if you'd like:
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