Day 13: Portfolio progress

Hello mates,

I am working hard to get my portfolio ready to submit tomorrow for uni. Part of it includes the solo sextet + SATB arrangement of 299792458 (which I will call 'the speed of light') Be assured, I have made progress over the last two days but nothing I really want to upload yet. The full score will come tomorrow though. In the mean time, please enjoy this extremely secret and not publicly sharable link to the rough mix from the premiere.

13 Fluctuating 2 bar - experiments01

Had a good muck around with some ideas from yesterday's post today. The two bar fluctuating tempo has three convergence points in each bar. I've moved it to 15/16 time signature. The accents in the changing tempo are in groups of 7,3,5, and they align with the 1st, 6th and 9th semiquavers of the steady tempo. Tomorrow the plan is to try and play this on my instrument and see how it feels. Audio and an attempt at some notation for it below. The melody below comes in after about a minute on the soundcloud link.

How far is it to Heaven?

I decided to write this when I found myself manically repeating "not all tenors are idiots", in an attempt to stave off that 'let's quit choir' feeling after rehearsal tonight. 

Score & Audio here

Text by my bae, Emily Dickinson:

How far is it to Heaven?
As far as Death this way --
Of River or of Ridge beyond
Was no discovery.

How far is it to Hell?
As far as Death this way --
How far left hand the Sepulchre
Defies Topography.