November 15 - Calm Amidst the Sturm und Drang

Finish editing Psalm 39b (four pages total), take care of part of the financial arrangements for the Job revival, and bestow upon the Theoreticians a double dictation of Philip Glass's Satyagraha and Akhnaten, plus some orchestrational riffs. Lunch run and coffee with Doug, lingering to edit all four pages of Psalm 39c in the lab, yet record all three instrumental tango renditions of Orlando di Lasso with the Garbage Band, rather than Tritone Ensemble, tooling reverb at an excessive 75 and adding "Capital Orchestra Kit A-C."




Psalm 39 "I Will Take Heed" - A




B




C,



returning home for more video madness: to wit -- San Francisco Cabaret Opera version of San Rafael News: III. Death Catch.

July 19 - Ah, Tomorrow!

Do the review for the July 16 SFSound show, now up at 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com, this Friday in Commuter Times, and in the September 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music. Also work on Chronicle for said issue as well as the reconstructed December 2005, prepare for publication two more pages for Symphony No. 2 (pages 53-54) and one for Psalm 21, pick up more filing boxes, talk to Harriet twice on the phone, and create videos for San Rafael News: IV. Immortality and



VIII. Rain-Death Fugato (Death Is the Rain). May have spoken too soon re emerging unscathed from yesterday....

July 18 - Connecting the Lines

Up absurdly early, with a local petrol and water-bottle stop,



then out to



American River Middle Fork Canyon,



over the Auburn Ravine Bridge,



past baking



chaparral slopes to



the Western States Trail Junction in



Foresthill



for



the last 8.3 miles (16.6, actually, since this will have to be a round trip) of a series of connected hikes between Rohnert Park and the Talbot Trailhead of the Granite Chief Wilderness.



Time for another Mark-of-Arabia (or is it more Flying Nun / large white rabbit / water buffalo this time?) get up before heading down



California,



Lowe, and perhaps



California again to



the



Trailhead,



where



the



views



open to the



east,



south,



and



west.



The way leads across a digger-pine-and-chaparral plateau,



then down Dardenelles Canyon within sight of the distant North-Fork-of-the-Middle-Fork Divide to a sunny



checkpoint.



From here,



the woods are alternately thin and dense,



with enough views of



Buckeye and



Cock Robin Points to keep it interesting, yet enough



shade to keep one alive on a very warm day (with three horsewomen and no other hikers encountered the whole time).



At last the clearing (in what proves to be just about the only truly deep forest section), known as



Peachstone Junction, appears, after a brutal, open downslope.



Resting briefly, there is nothing to do but tackle the reverse upslope -- the most difficult stretch of the day, wrapping the upper shirt-scarf tight against the heat radiating up from the rocks, meditating on the horse that started earlier and almost knocked its rider and me for a loop (what if?). All the potential dangers -- sprains, broken bones, heat stroke, insurmountable fatigue, bears, mountain lions, bees, poison oak, sunburn, blisters, becoming lost, dehydration, starvation, being kicked by a horse -- pretty much averted.



Uncharacteristically thankful for shade and



cool springs, relatedly appreciative for having taken three (rather than two of last week) water bottles, plus the re-discovered daypack of yesterday, which proves semi-insulated, and thereby a keeper of relatively refridgerated goods.



Homeward, again, pretty wiped out, but perhaps in slightly better shape than last week at this time -- still there are two pages (51-52) of Symphony No. 2: II (Part 2) to do, as well as another for Psalm 20 (2 pages total, concluding it), and video edit for San Rafael News: I. AIDSong.

July 17 - Legendary Progress

Another impressively warm day, but nevertheless clean out an even larger L section of the adjunct library, such that at last there's order in there (of course, now the rest of the house has been re-challenged, with temporary files all over the place), such that only Harriet's section of the space needs doing upon her return, and, lo and behold, rediscover misplaced items including

Score to Steve Reich's Tehillim
Never-used daypack (unfortunately a little gnawed)
Road maps of Oregon and Washington
Tax forms from two years ago
Topographic map of Montara Mountain
Topographic maps of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Trail map of Auburn State Recreation Area

This year's belated state refund arrives (while talking on phone with H), and in depositing it, forget a writing implement (second time in a week -- first was trying to pay at kiosk for parking at the end of Driver's Flat Road), so cruise two shopping plazas trying to find a place with a pen (discover a post-office, but no scrivening item therein), finally winding up a friendly baked goods outlet, purchasing a bit for good measure.

Start the September 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music, continue reconstruct (after a long hiatus) of the December 2005, do two more pages (four total) publication-preparation for Symphony No. 2: II (Part 2), do one page same for Psalm 20, plus two new videos, being San Rafael News: VII. Pontoon Tattoo and



IX. The Reproductive Organs. Also post Antigone: XVIII. It's You on Facebook. Ah, yes, and finally have discovered how to size embedded YouTube videos here...

July 16 - Icumen In

There's finally enough order in the adjunct library that there are clear aisles north-south and east-west forming an L with respect to the access from the rest of the house. As for the rest... well, it's definitely still an ongoing project. And out the door, blazingly/sunnily toasty inland, we go to call San Anselmo postoffice to arrange for rendezvous next week, pick up the August 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music in Berkeley, review SFSound's solo/duo acoustic/electric concert in dramatically dreary/frigid



San Francisco (specifically the Community Music Center), with



Kyle Bruckman,



Matt Ingalls (Hadley evidently otherwise engaged),



John Ingle, et. al. (report in 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com Monday, Commuter Times on Friday, and by September 1 at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print) -- sitting with Patti Deuter and friend, and chatting with Adam Broner and friend, returning through heavy 37 traffic, to do progressive-score videos for



San Rafael News: III. Death Catch and



X. Sylvia Dryer, posting on YouTube. Surely somewhere in there, do first two pages of publication-preparation of Symphony 2: II (part 2) -- a lot of twos... and make ready to post Antigone: XVIII. It's You on Facebook. Oh, yes, also check the Goat Hall mail for Harriet (brief hands-hands free call over the bridge, and some financial greetings upon arrival) and catch up with Miriam while her all-baroque internet radio station is playing an intriguing early-clarinet roccoco Stamitz piece).

July 15 - Don't Forget Your Trowel

Another hot day (above or below 100, depending on who you believe), and get all the academic work from the last 8 years at DVC (springs, summers, and falls... 30 semesters) into file boxes and establish two rows of files in the adjunct library, finish the publication-preparation of Symphony No. 2: II. first fugue exposition (20 pages total), figure out what the Ken Burns effect is in iMovie (there's no definition in the program -- Apple figures everyone has watched the man's documentaries -- some of us have only read about them, but googling the situation reveals that this refers to sequential slides moving slowly in random directions) and how to turn it off to produce a video for San Rafael News: VI. Ozymandias.


Call all three of Sorrel's phones to wish her a happy birthday, also talk to Harriet and Loren, email back and forth with Erling, and bike out to the pool/etc. to read the Nolo press book on non-profit status for SFCCO... basically we have to fill out non-profit and tax-exempt forms, so perhaps we can at least begin this process within the month.


Supply run, and home to do a second visual SRN movement:



II. Conference Room Technique / How to Survive - am pleased to re-encounter the original CIA document online, which can now be dealt with via the "grab" function ("snapshots" are the result, and certainly a clearer name) in Preview. Put both of above on YouTube, and Antigone: XVII. Take Her Away on Facebook.

July 14 - Composers Cooperative

Transfer and edit the August 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music from the blog to Word, save as pdf, send over to Erling for the archives, run it down to Copy World in Berkeley to print, then across the now $6-at-peak-hours Bay Bridge for the first time to Lisa Scola Prosek's salon, with David Graves, hearing the former's Sonata, and the latter's String Quartet, as well as the new videos for Psalm 6: 1-5, Ecclesiastes: VII. Day of Death, and Job: VIII. Is There Someone.



We break camp for



Erling's and



Composers Chamber Orchestra board meeting, and it seems a perfect time to begin video for



A Walk Through California: San Francisco (SFCCO Room and Board). At home successfully incorporate still shots for the first time in iMovie resulting in visuals for



San Rafael News: V. Lifespan. Oh yes, and more pages prepared for publication of Symphony No. 2: II.