Scene IV is almost complete. All I’m still missing is a mini-coda-punchline after the final climax. I mean I have it, I just haven’t yet written it down fully. The scene stretched to last over ten minutes, nearly twelve, and I feel it is a good introduction, in terms of time too, to the finale of the entire first act.

As I was writing the last few minutes, at times I had that feeling of having winds in the sail. It was that state when a vessel hovers just above the water, when it basically is flying through the air, with only the keel submerged in the water to maintain direction and the hull occasionally just bouncing off the surface. But these moments were only brief. 

I’ve written the last few minutes while on the move, in hotel mode, what I like and what works for me, as I’ve mentioned it already in the past. I wouldn’t mind living in a hotel most of the time. With the interior essentially unchanging, and the exterior changing from time to time, creating a nice and temporary distraction, if necessary.

By the way, I was quite impressed by the urban architecture. Not its specific appearance, but rather the fact that it is a long-standing witness to – and, personification of, if you will – certain story. It hardly ever impresses me, I must confess.

The concert is also in its final stages. Fragments of what I have already written are coming together to form a slightly longer climax piece. I don’t know – or see – the details yet. But I can feel the place where it will all end. The minute nature is slightly off, but only a tiny little bit. Minutely...

So, now onto the pre-final coda and the finale of the first act of the opera and the finale of the concert for two flutes and orchestra. 

(transl. Magdalena Małek-Andrzejowska)