It’s taking me a lot longer than I’d hoped to set up the studio at the new house. For one thing, several pieces of equipment were damaged in the move - nothing super tragic, but imagine how easy it is to save a new file when you don’t have a working keyboard. More importantly, I’m having trouble sorting out where to put the various elements of my studio setup in the new room. I’m arguing with myself about where exactly to place synths versus guitar stands and the end result is that I haven’t really gotten anything done.

But, somehow, I managed to write an ending to the Mandelirium fractal zoom. The earlier zoom was zo large und zo complexz that it hadn’t finished rendering by showtime. So I faded out the soundtrack accordingly. Now, however, the zoom is complete with an ending, so I had the daunting task of assembling a suitable conclusion… all while my studio is in utter disarray.

Anyway, perched atop a pile of tangled cables, instruments scattered on the floor around me, I pieced together an ending that, I think, fits pretty well. For the keen-eared, there are also a few subtle but significant changes in the earlier bits of the song. It goes live tonight, and I’ve lost count of how many sold-out shows that makes in a row, but it’s something in the high seventies, I think. The Fractal Foundation rocks!