1. Did another ambient work with processed organillo for the film music series.
2. Continued work for Mentormeter Media ”band-”strating the viola piece.
3. Finished a pass on the remix of Powder. Not quite ready for re-release yet.
4. Packaged some promo CDs.

New Ground ambient piece up on the ground site at http://mysterycabal.com/artists/ground

in the WIP (Work in Progress) folder.

Rhythm tracks by lani milbus.

Electronic manipulation of organillo by me.

1. Finally a breakthrough: New Ground track. Planning a new album. It owes a lot to Joe Preston, as I think he is a fraking genius. It is posted in the WIP album here
2. Work for Mentormeter Media.
3. Straightened out confusion about Comp Project 2. That and Dissertation Project 4 should be in the books soon.
4. Started a jazz guitar practice routine. I never really had any inclination to learn to play jazz on guitar until quite recently. Not sure where it will go, but it is fun.
5. Finishing a new Ground track seems to have helped break through the creative glacier I’ve been stuck in. I’m working on the wind ensemble arrangement of Song & Dance. Also doing an arrangement of Abramowitz’s viola piece for sax/wind ensemble. I feel inspired for the first time in a few months.
6. Made a few tweaks to the Prospectus for the research doc based on Jeremy Smith’s advice.
7. Discovered that I can likely finish the MSRA program in a year. That would be nice.

Been a few weeks since the last post:

1. FLE Vol. I Nos. 2 and 4 are up on the Mystery Cabal site. Almost done with all of the reissues.
2. Continued confusion about Composition Project 2.
3. Prospectus for research doc submitted to committee.
4. Submitted abstract for a conference next fall.
5. Finished all teaching responsibilities for the year.
6. Accepted admission to the MSRA program at University of Colorado – Denver.
7. Work for Mentormeter Media.
8. Large rework on the coding for the brandonvaccaromusic.com website. Trimmed the size down by about 40%.
9. Added artists websites for mysterycabal.com – Free Love Ensemble, Kallisti, Coefficient of Friction, S. Lyn Goeringer and Brandon Vaccaro, and Ground.
10. Sketched a bit, but I am still unbelievably unmotivated to compose right now. Frustrated, broke, hungry, and depressed.

I am burnt.

I need a vacation.

Maybe I’ll win powerball this week.