I now have a working layout for the three artworks for The Beatles’ triptych project. I do this to confirm that all the sampling notes fit on each artwork. Below, I am showing the layout image that illustrates the hanging order. Following the same order of Paul McCartney’s video featured in the previous blog, the first image on the left will be Golden Slumbers. The center image is Carry that Weight. The right image is The End.

In the past, I have worked on one project at a time from start to finish. Every new music box project begins with the creation, in PerSonus Notion, of a draft cover of the music. I then take my cover sheet music and chose the sample that would be the worksheet for portraying the music. I did not do that with this project. Instead, I first put together the worksheet sample for each of the artworks. This change came about when I decided I needed to build all three artworks together. I decided that each would share a common design, the same use of color, and other visual features. This came about because of time constraints needing all three completed by the coming mid to late January. That then pushed me to get this multiple project going, knowing that the cover music was secondary to the need to have completed artworks. Currently already deep into this project, the time line looks a lot better. I believe now that I will have both the artworks and their music boxes completed before they’re hanging in January.

Currently, I am working on the backside of the artwork Golden Slumbers. The image below shows the installed steel plates across the top side of the artwork and in the speaker box. From the layout seen above for Golden I have added to both speaker boxes a steel plate to move two notes from each row off the main canvas. I had to do this after using the arrangement of the layout. I realized that twelve notes across a thirty-six inch canvas would be a tight fit.

Scott Von Holzen