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Well my posting has slowed down a lot in the last year and a bit. Things sorta drifted off and not that many people have been stopping by, signing up in the forums and posting comments, so I didn’t really feel the need to post random little bits of stuff that CIR’s been up to, mostly because there’s nothing to post about. I’m still waiting for the disc to get finished, which it’s still close to being done. It’ll get pushed back again and again no doubt. Things in the past few months fell a part in real life. The place I was living in got closed up due to financial troubles. I moved out of Ottawa and everyone else got their own places somewhere else. Since the guy that was living with me was also mastering my disc, it’s going to take even MORE time to finish up. I’ve given him until the end of August to have it all finished up otherwise I’ll have to find someone else to do it for me so I can finally get it out there. I’m sick of waiting for him to finish it up. I don’t want to write more tracks until it’s done because it’ll never get done if I do that. I’ll always use my newer tracks replacing the older ones and it’d go on like this for, well, forever. Nothing would get done. Rather then maybe have that happen, I’ve packed everything up and sent it to him and haven’t done much else since. There were some problems at home, I moved and my knees have really been bugging me, so I haven’t even really felt like writing any music lately anyway. I’m still waiting and would like it done right away but I don’t even know if I’d have written anything in the last bit if it was finished. Some of the medication I take may be getting in the way of writing music. I’ve heard that anti depressants can cause this to happen.
Well if by the end of Aug my disc isn’t finished, then I’m going to pay someone to finis it up for me. One way or another, I’ll have the disc finished this year. I have someone working on the art and it’s coming along well. I’ve been listening to the disc back to front for a few days now trying to figure out a track list for it and without having the final versions of the tracks, it’s hard to set a track list in stone. The songs change enough that the track list I pick out now might not be as good as something else when I have the finished ones.
Music wise there really isn’t much going on. I might be doing some tracks for a up coming unreal tournament 3 mod called Tac Ops but I’ve heard that the Unreal Tournament 3 community is very small, so a MOD won’t get a very good player base for it anyway. I just don’t know if I want to put in that much work for 50-70 people that will play the game and most of them without map music anyway. Most people that play MODs are more serious players and I don’t know too many serious players that listen to the in game map music. Most have it turned off so they can hear things around them much better – like foot steps.
I’ve temporarily stopped my music certification from the RCM since I’ve moved. I’ll now need to get someone in the area to teach me the content every week and find the next closest test centre.
Come Sept, I’m going to hook up with my old music teacher from highschool and have him mentor me again more closely to give me some new direction and reignite my fire for composition.
I’m also still debating weather or not to put online my “classical” and Frag Ops tracks. I might put up a poll on the front page or in the forum asking people if they’d be interested in having them up as they are now (un-mastered) If there is enough interest, I might put them online for people to check out.

Well, that’s about the quick run up to what’s going on.
To sum it up very quick for people that are too lazy to read, like me:
The disc will be out this year, most likely before Oct.

cheers,
IR