Surprises continue. At the beginning of the week, the opening night of  I, Şeküre was about to fall through, but partway through the week it turned out that fragments would nevertheless be saved. In a version for a string quartet and a piano, which I had to prepare urgently. There will only be three scenes (miniatures), but quite key ones. 

This is not really helpful in writing the concerto. But the premiere date (in December) cares very little about it. So I don't particularly care either.

Working with the series brings some surprises. It would seem that all of this is just pure combination, but after spending time on thinking about variants, possible chords and other consequences of a particular set of pitches and intervals, the whole thing is starting to have a deeper meaning than just, so to say, the objective one. I am beginning to get attached to some of the results of these transformations more than others. I am starting to like them. And on this occasion I re-discovered Nikolas Slonymski’s astonishing collection of scales and chords. A while back, I rummaged around it and found some things. I think I can find something there again.

I am also reading Wyspiański and about Wyspiański. Not without a reason.

Meanwhile, the world is supposedly expanding like an inflated balloon and cooling down in the process. It’s hard to believe that.

(transl. Magdalena Małek-Andrzejowska)