With yesterday’s entry, I reached the three-month mark of producing a new piece of music every day. I’ve chosen to continue no longer at that pace. This daily project started on a whim, it only seems right for it to end on one too.

The trouble isn’t that I can’t keep it up, after this past month in which I found my interest in the project waning while still meeting the daily requirement, I’m supremely confident that I can. The trouble is that my interest in the project is waning. I am no longer eager to keep up the pace, and inclined to believe that no good would come of it even if I were.

At some point mid-March I lost steam (I blame the Daylight Savings time shift, worst human invention ever), the only thing keeping me on track was the daily requirement alone. A state of affairs that I think in the long term can only result in poor quality output. And I see no point in extending the idea if ultimately I’ll just be phoning it in. So here it dies. Yay!

But where to next? I don’t completely want to abandon the project, since it’s already up and running, and I still enjoy the idea of sharing sketches and fresh material with an audience. So a reduction of objectives is in order, from music every day to music often enough, as the spirit moves me, when I think the quality is up to snuff. This way I can spend a couple of days with something rather than calling it finished only because midnight approaches.

As with any good reckoning, some statistics are in order:

• - In 90 days, I produced 7 hours, 13 minutes, and 32 seconds worth of material.
• - The combined file size of the mp3s here posted is 992 MB (the project materials take up 8.3 GB on my local drive!).
• - The longest piece was 9 minutes, 48 seconds long, posted on January 8th.
• - The shortest pieces were both 4 seconds long, posted on March 21st and 27th as part of last week’s Mini Music extravaganza.
• - More telling, excluding last week, the shortest piece was 2 minutes, 25 seconds, posted on January 9th, the day after the longest piece.
• - The mean average length of a piece was 4 minutes, 49 seconds (rounded to the nearest second).
• - A total of 55 unique tags have been appended to tracks, the top two most used were modular synthesizer (11) and acoustic guitar (10).

To commit to this breach of commitment, no new music will be posted today. Apologies that this landed on April Fool’s Day, but I hate that stupid shit, so no worries doubting what I have herein stated.

SIGHUP – March 31 2011

Tonight, some metallophone given a bit of crunch and crackle.

And with that, 90 pieces of music in 90 days. Tomorrow, some thoughts on that, and some changes to the project.

Something largely synthesized for this evening, slow and lightly rumbling.

Going for a change of pace this evening, a leisurely number for tablas, or rather tabla, as I only have the one. I’m going to have make it a set some day.

Tonight’s track is something of a hymn for granular synthesis.

I had a terrible time getting this one finished tonight, so I’m a few minutes past midnight posting. I suppose difficulty getting back into long pieces was to be expected.

The end of Mini Music Week, I chose to go out with a bang.

Back to our standard fare tomorrow. Expect at least a few more theme weeks throughout the year, but I’m finished with microcomposition for now.

Mini music week, penultimate day.

I’m running a little late this evening, a decayed, spare, miniature song for tonight’s entry.