Most of the music to be recorded with Ensemble Offspring is now either drafted or completely finished, and despite that it has been 18 months since this project started, it still feels like there’s an awful lot to do. I made myself feel a bit better today by making a “to-do” list, and actually everything is under control. The brand new Warships Pavilion on beautiful Darling Harbour is looking close to completion, too!

There are 10 days to go until the first recording, and the list looks manageable:

• An alternating section for Family (The Gun Room), the Satie-ish piece
• Start again on the Operations room music – that’s the one I started on but didn’t like
• I’m short on ideas for what will go in the Sailor’s Galley
• There needs to be one piece on the submarine HMAS Onslow to set the mood for the sonar-game (haven’t explained this yet, but I will when I get to it)

Of course, there will still be lots of work to do after the recordings – preparing two versions of each recording, one for the installation so that MOD’s procedural player can make constantly-changing sound, and some shortened versions for a CD as a record of the project for myself and the museum. But that’s easy compared to finishing off the composition/sound design and recording it!