The Mystic Chord

Alexander Scriabin, the inspiration for Roderick Usher's musical direction, based many of his pieces off of a series of fourths that he called the akkord plemory and we have since taken to calling "The Mystic Chord." From his wikipedia page, I find that this chord

"was designed to afford instant apprehension of-that is, to reveal-what
was in essence beyond the mind of man to conceptualize."

Which I think is a particularly fitting description that I can pass down to Roderick Usher.

I've been doubling back to work on Mysterium before doing some of the easier pieces that I now have pretty good ideas about. It has not gotten any easier to create a piece that will match the fervor of its description.

"Ten thousand strings- like only the Gods have heard before."
"Two-thousand cannons!"
"And a chorus of fifty-thousand to silence the cannons and drums of war once and for all!"

Most of my composition process involves staring at these words and thinking to myself "seriously?"

There is a chance I'm looking too far into it- but I feel like Mysterium is slowly (VERY slowly) writing itself. It knows what it wants, and I'm just here to click in notes until it tells me I can move on. It lets me know almost instantly if it is not happy with a note, but it gives me very little guidance as to what sounds it WOULD prefer.

We've got thirty seconds. We're looking for between four and five minutes. We've got eight months. We can do this.

Once I get to Italy in a few days, maybe I'll be able to crank out some of the other pieces that I need. I've only got until the very arbitrary date of August 11th to submit draft 1 of everything.