Work has slowed, but progress continues

In the latter half of December I had a ton of time off of my day-job and I got so much done on the book, and I did plenty more in January... but February was a chaotic month with a lot going on both personally and professionally, and I didn't make a lot of progress with the music theory project(s). Feels like I've been neglecting it, actually. Ah well, that's life -- things get busy and then there are quiet periods, it's all a cycle.

I bought a new book, "Abstract Musical Intervals" (2007) by Ming Tsao. It's quite dense with mathematical Lemmas and Corollaries and Theorems, making it a rather difficult read. I pick it up when I'm sleepless and I usually last only a few pages. The jist of the book is an exploration of GIS by David Lewin. I don't know if it goes into any uncharted territory, but I suppose I'll find out eventually. I'm only on page 14.

I also found a copy of "Composition with Pitch Classes" (1987) by Robert Morris, borrowed via an inter-library loan. That one is hard to find, it's long out of print and copies on sale online are horridly expensive. None of the libraries I have access to via my alumnus privileges have it. But then my daughter -- currently working on her undergrad degree as a full time student -- was able to request it from another library, and she borrowed it on my behalf!

I haven't fully absorbed the whole thing into my brain, but what I have read is excellent -- it's a thorough exploration of sets, classes, complexes and spaces, TTOs and designs. Morris is brilliant, I've read many of his journal articles and it's great to read his work in a longer format.

March is going to be another busy month, but hopefully by the end of March I'll be past the worst of it and have more time for music theory hobby stuff.

Many thanks as always to you all, I am so grateful because the patronage covers the cost of the public web server where I host all the scale pages, and it also (almost) covers the cost of the second rented private Linux cloud server where I do almost everything else. I love doing most of my computing in the cloud. For example, all the writing I do for the book is synced via git to that server, where scripts do all the LaTeX compilation. I proof sections of the book via a web interface with nginx. I love the cloud setup because it means I can work literally from anywhere, on any machine just using tools like terminal, vim, git, bash, and ssh. I don't need anything special installed locally, and I don't have to worry about backups or hardware.

Your patronage also covers the cost of books like the ones I mentioned above. I do appreciate it very much.

I hope you are staying sane in these chaotic times, holding true to your values. Care for your neighbours and stay kind.
Cheers, Ian