On friday, the ICASSP submission was due, so there were several last minute revisions that needed to be in place before the weekend was through (since they dont actually close the submissions until first thing monday morning). So on the TWELVE hour journey to NYC for AES, I was able to finish that as well as become more familiar with the subtleties of the mathematical substitutions behind fourier transforms... On the way back on Monday, (10/08/2007) I was able to make significant headway on the pitch field script. Between Monday and Wednesday (10/10/2007), I have been able to accomplish pitch field extraction from the stave removal algorithms. The next step of the process is to iteratively export glyphs from Gamera, and analyze the pitch points from the centers of the noteheads:). In other news, Melissa has just moved up here this last weekend, and the furniture/clothing/studio/etc has just arrived today (10/10/2007)...