Was meant to go out tonight and see VV Brown at the Barfly in Camden, but then came the snow :( I am sure I will bump into her again soon.

So I spent pretty much the whole day listening to “THEN GOTO 1980″ over and over, I am happy with all the parts, just not the arrangement, it won’t take much longer. It’s quite long though, almost 6 minutes!

I have also started work on the piece called “Very Economical” that uses the Elliot 803 after tinkering with it for an hour, I realised something obvious. As I want people to experience the sounds of the Elliot 803 the way they would outside of the performance, I realised I wouldn’t be able to use harmony. The Elliot 803 is only capable of one channel, one beep at a time, in order to get around that I am gonna have to flick between the notes very fast to create pseudo harmony which the Elliot 803 is capable of. It’s “Very Economical” because it will only use one channel, it is only capable of producing around two octaves, and only in F Major (with no E it would seem), and it was used for mathematics and banking, is that too much? I am pleased how it is turning out, it won’t be a very long piece, just extremely elaborate and yet economical with it’s use of sound?

So just to recap on the Elliot 803, one channel, 2 octaves, F major with no E, not in tune with other instruments, maybe not entirely in tune with itself and I am not allowed to pitch shift it to fix it. I love the Elliot 803. It’s amazing.

“Math” is now done, it’s ends the way I want it to, instead of it abruptly being destroyed by a cataclysmic beat.