meters are miles

the battle to finish writing the turned series rages on. we spent sunday concentrating on force field again, the keychanges need some hard work on them and coming up with a second theme seems to be quite troublesome. jere played us an extremely beautiful piece he wrote for guitar, and we will most likely use it as it's own seperate song. so basically this is all multiplying, and four parts won't be enough.. i had a dream during saturday night in which i heard most of these parts played in a row. some bits were missing, some i just didn't remember and the rest are fading fast. i managed to write down most of what there was soon after i woke up, and the followng is from the notebook i used (slightly revised in light of the rehearsal that followed, and including ideas i've worked on with tuukka and by myself afterwards):

1/4 - force field, beginning to take shape slowly, will probably involve words with a sort of agricultural feel to them, a slowly building piece with a loud noise burst after the intro, then gradually turning more and more atonal. the parts for this in their correct order (at the moment) is:
intro: about two minutes of seemingly unplanned accents on floor tom, accordion and line 6 looper, using snippets of violin and metallophone all slowed down, with violins playing short bits of the first theme
loud part: comes in suddenly and subsides just as fast, guitars and drums (possibly two sets) have the lead here.
cymbal swell: a one-bar expanse on the first note of the first theme's bass (e)
theme 1/1: bass and a repetetive 5/4 metallophone, violins and drums slowly enter, imitating the 5/4 rhythm
theme 2/1: bass and metallophone continue, strings and trumpet veer off into the main theme, very quietly
middle eight: where trumpet and second metallophone/guitar take the lead for 8 bars. a sort of solo if you like.
theme 2: a lengthy chorus-ish part where the violins start on a hypnotic four note loop.
theme 3/1: bass, metallophone, strings and trumpet return, this time with added guitars and piano.
modulation: slowly pulling everything from an Am-key to Bb.
end: partly borrowing the end of the world or theme 2/4 from death suit.

2/4 - crocodile teeth:
verse: violins play the original keyboard line pizzicato, emily sings.
chorus: drums and accordion enter, and everything gets scrambled by a delay-pedal.

3/4 - death suit, starting to look very big, loud, epic and looming:
theme 1/1: one bar in 4/4 time followed by 8 bars in 3/4.
theme 1/2: or tangerine dream. violins play a two-part theme over and over, modulating between f and g# throughout. quietly.
theme 2/2: the same as above, only twice slower this time.
theme 1/3: also called donnie darko, the lead instruments are two metallophones.
theme 2/3: again, the same repeated, but with the higher-pitched vibes playing twice the normal speed.
theme 1/4: aka best of bach, strings and trumpet lead and the bass changes key over and over, always returning where it started from by the end of the cycle.
theme 2/4: end of the world, same as 1/4 but with the bass veering off into another direction and one of the violins playing a repetetive short arpeggio.
theme 1/2: back again, this time much louder.
theme 2/2: again, the slowed down version.
theme 3/2: still slowed down, but with a much simpler bass.
theme 2/1: and we're back at the beginning, this time with strings playing the first four beats of the rubato from left your marks in the sand over the 4/4 part.

4/4 - left your marks in the sand
intro: 4/4 rhythm, with double-bass and drums.
rubato 1: emily and iina sing and play a short vocal/trumpet bit here, regardless of rhythm.
verse: everything from here on is piano-led, apart from the very end.
chorus 1: understated and quiet, hinting at the second chorus.
verse 2: second verse differs only in having more trumpet, sax and clarinet.
chorus 2: strings enter here.
middle eight
vocal bridge
instrumental bridge
ending: return of the drums (and vocals).
rubato 2

5/4 - mox kow / end fights will probably be jere playing a compostion he wrote for classical guitar with added strings, trumpet and metallophone.

6/4 - meters are miles will be the ballad. and the only one we haven't really started proper work on. the ending will have the adjacent 1/4 notes though, i promise.