i didn't notice back in february but teo died,
he of in a silent way, bitches brew fame...
only fairly recently did i discover that both these wonderful miles davis albums had been made by Teo Macero stitching together 50 minutes / 100 minutes from all kinds of hours of miles davis taping everything...
i've been listening to some herbie hancock 70's albums after talking about them in last week's spanner jazz punks rehearsal, also a couple of talk talk albums that yimkin put me onto, their last 2,
then i was reading about in a silent way and i found out teo was gone so i find a teo interview... he raves about all these crazy audio machines he had the technicians @ columbia make for him, this being the 50's and 60's and they didn't have what we have now...
he describes putting "he loved him madly" (a miles tune on get up with it for duke ellington, who died in 1974 when the album was made) through one such machine and suddenly it sounded like it was duke ellington's band, and teo mixed duke ellington so he should know...
in the meantime i've got hold of chillout by the KLF, probably because bill drumond came to a bookshop in woodgreen last week, although i couldn't go because of said SJP rehearsal...
this 1991 album strangely intertwined in my head with the talk talk stuff, different worlds, but overlapping none-the-less...
then in another moment i read that spirit of eden (the 1st of the last 2 talk talk albums - 1988) is partly inspired by the miles tune - he loved him madly...
linking in these worlds as well...
i don't have he loved him madly in digital form, but i've got it on vinyl and i listened to it this afternoon with a crafty smoke, and it is heaven on a stick...
listening to it made me want to plug the NORD (which is leaving me sometime soon, back to it's original owner, lack of funds) into the effect loop of the rhodes to take advantage of the vibrato...
so i did and i've been making some great music with it x
Monday, September 29, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
rendering
leaving aside the fact that this week's improvisation took 30 hours to render (because of foolishness), in a normal week, with this new way of working with dailymotion,
let's say 9 hours of rendering, plus 2 hours of uploading...
set against 3 hours rendering and about an hour's uploading...
that's quite a bit of extra time, every week,
when i 1st started making video's i was rendering bits of video which took 30 minutes or so, sometimes as much as an hour and i was surprised... i had my rhodes right there by the computer and in the period i wrote a number of different chord sequences, 2 of which became songs for my dinah (the neurotic love song, long may this be true)...
over time i got used to the amount of time video took to render, it became less special, the time flew by and i didn't necessarily do anything productive like writing chords...
but this new paradigm, it's such a leap in terms of time, i'm really noticing it and it's like a gift of time, time i can't spend in front of this computer....
i'm reading more,
harmonic experience is looking at me with a suggestive tilt... motioning (or implying motion) towards the harmonium...
i have an album to write now, i don't know if i've mentioned it, but i think i want to do an album, songs from the past few years, including pre-dinah tunes like:
love is lies,
harbour walls,
on my mind,
and then dinah's:
long may this be true,
the neurotic love song,
stardust,
it ain't gonna stop,
the stranger tune...
when i wake up? - maybe,
and then who knows how many other tunes i have yet to write...
also, while i've got this small work life i want to take advantage of the freedom,
time...
PS - i didn't get out of bed before 11:30, the dawn project part 2 will have to wait a little longer x
let's say 9 hours of rendering, plus 2 hours of uploading...
set against 3 hours rendering and about an hour's uploading...
that's quite a bit of extra time, every week,
when i 1st started making video's i was rendering bits of video which took 30 minutes or so, sometimes as much as an hour and i was surprised... i had my rhodes right there by the computer and in the period i wrote a number of different chord sequences, 2 of which became songs for my dinah (the neurotic love song, long may this be true)...
over time i got used to the amount of time video took to render, it became less special, the time flew by and i didn't necessarily do anything productive like writing chords...
but this new paradigm, it's such a leap in terms of time, i'm really noticing it and it's like a gift of time, time i can't spend in front of this computer....
i'm reading more,
harmonic experience is looking at me with a suggestive tilt... motioning (or implying motion) towards the harmonium...
i have an album to write now, i don't know if i've mentioned it, but i think i want to do an album, songs from the past few years, including pre-dinah tunes like:
love is lies,
harbour walls,
on my mind,
and then dinah's:
long may this be true,
the neurotic love song,
stardust,
it ain't gonna stop,
the stranger tune...
when i wake up? - maybe,
and then who knows how many other tunes i have yet to write...
also, while i've got this small work life i want to take advantage of the freedom,
time...
PS - i didn't get out of bed before 11:30, the dawn project part 2 will have to wait a little longer x
dawn project part 2
so, i know it sounds unlikely, but i think i'm getting up very early tomorrow to check out the dawn project part 2...
when i do it it will only take half a day, from 8am ish to around 1 pm...
i want one of these amazing days like we've had for the last few...
my moog improvisation is still rendering, it's rendered twice already, i downloaded some software for an obscure purpose and it messed up my rendering, even though it wasn't involved in said rendering at all, it messed it up,
and i didn't work it out until after i'd rendered it twice, 10 hours each time,
i'm fairly sure i've fixed the problem, the piece of software was a demo and it said it would only work for a few minutes until i registered it,
well what they didn't say was that they would also make someone else's codec (which is free, and which i was using already) not work for more than a few minutes...
the LAME mp3 codec that i use with virtualdub to achieve nice high bitrates for mp3 audio, this retard piece of software made this not work after a couple of minutes of audio...
this is what i think happened... tomorrow i'll wake up and before i go and investigate the dawn project part 2 & i will see whether this last render has worked or not...
i uninstalled the troublesome program, reinstalled all my codecs...
fingers crossed...
x
when i do it it will only take half a day, from 8am ish to around 1 pm...
i want one of these amazing days like we've had for the last few...
my moog improvisation is still rendering, it's rendered twice already, i downloaded some software for an obscure purpose and it messed up my rendering, even though it wasn't involved in said rendering at all, it messed it up,
and i didn't work it out until after i'd rendered it twice, 10 hours each time,
i'm fairly sure i've fixed the problem, the piece of software was a demo and it said it would only work for a few minutes until i registered it,
well what they didn't say was that they would also make someone else's codec (which is free, and which i was using already) not work for more than a few minutes...
the LAME mp3 codec that i use with virtualdub to achieve nice high bitrates for mp3 audio, this retard piece of software made this not work after a couple of minutes of audio...
this is what i think happened... tomorrow i'll wake up and before i go and investigate the dawn project part 2 & i will see whether this last render has worked or not...
i uninstalled the troublesome program, reinstalled all my codecs...
fingers crossed...
x
Friday, September 26, 2008
waking up (or not)
so i slept through my alarms yesterday, i've got this groovy little 2 day work pattern for the minute that starts on a thursday and ends this afternoon and from monday to wednesday i was kind of sick, eating jai krishna food 2 nights in a row...
spent wednesday in my pajamas not leaving the house,
so i woke up with no time at all to spare and not showering would have got me to work faster, but i hadn't washed in two days and for two nights running i'd deliberately sweated a lot to get this cold thing out of me..
if ever i needed a shower...
i got to work ok, and clean... did my 1st proper sessions over @ hammersmithwork which was less trying i think than previous years, although it still can get trying before it gets easier if it wants to...
i improvised on my own afterwards on D's moog which he offered to sell me for a very reasonable price... not a price i can afford on two days work a week but at some point in the future that baby is mine... there's a certain record by can that i possess that D wants and that's going to have to be part of the deal...
and here i am,
dinah woke me with a tea, thankfully, didn't have to rely on the alarms although i think i would have done it ok today... she's now gone off to work and i don't leave the house for an hour... it feels really wierd, bright sunlight, time to spare...
my main computer is currently rendering the improvisation, 24 minutes of it, dailymotion have persuaded me to try it at a higher bitrate so it's slower again than the previous two hugely slow renders... i set it going before i went to bed @ around 1:30am and it's due to finish around noon...
i wonder if this push for better quality video will mean people with slower machines won't be able to see it right? and in that setting does the sound come through ok, i think it does... and the sound is the main thing... anyway, tea... breakfast...
x
spent wednesday in my pajamas not leaving the house,
so i woke up with no time at all to spare and not showering would have got me to work faster, but i hadn't washed in two days and for two nights running i'd deliberately sweated a lot to get this cold thing out of me..
if ever i needed a shower...
i got to work ok, and clean... did my 1st proper sessions over @ hammersmithwork which was less trying i think than previous years, although it still can get trying before it gets easier if it wants to...
i improvised on my own afterwards on D's moog which he offered to sell me for a very reasonable price... not a price i can afford on two days work a week but at some point in the future that baby is mine... there's a certain record by can that i possess that D wants and that's going to have to be part of the deal...
and here i am,
dinah woke me with a tea, thankfully, didn't have to rely on the alarms although i think i would have done it ok today... she's now gone off to work and i don't leave the house for an hour... it feels really wierd, bright sunlight, time to spare...
my main computer is currently rendering the improvisation, 24 minutes of it, dailymotion have persuaded me to try it at a higher bitrate so it's slower again than the previous two hugely slow renders... i set it going before i went to bed @ around 1:30am and it's due to finish around noon...
i wonder if this push for better quality video will mean people with slower machines won't be able to see it right? and in that setting does the sound come through ok, i think it does... and the sound is the main thing... anyway, tea... breakfast...
x
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
it's in my nose
i took the precaution of popping down to jai krishna's with my keyboard on my back last early evening and i think their wonderful food moved it along...
it had been in my throat for a few days,
it made me about 10 minutes late for my 1st rehearsal with spanner jazz punks, an 8 piece band run by D spanner, 5 horns up front and keys, bass, drums behind...
the tenor player was missing, and of the remaining 7, 2 of them were me & D,
leaving 5 new to me, of which i already knew 2...
one of whom was sox, he of leaving CM fame, for awhile he's been the longest surviving old school Cmer, but with him gone the mantle falls to me now... strange title...
i now D and him go back quite away so it wasn't much of a leap...
but the other one i know used to be in my blues workshop many, many years ago...
it was my 1st ever teaching job and i did it for maybe 3/4 years... around the time i was still in hotel full of cops... he played cornet in that band, but he's a trombone player now... strangely similar facial hair to me, although his moustache keeps going when it reaches the chin and goes in opposite directions to the ears...
i've found a new provider for my internet video hosting...
a french group called dailymotion who've been around apparently since before youtube...
they offer better definition than either youtube or googlevideo and although i like the idea of keeping all the improvisations in one place, googlevideo have been getting worse over the last few months in terms of bugs and irritating things...
so here's the LHC from a couple of weeks back in the new place:
in particular i like how the longcat icon is better defined in this version, the sound might be better too...
i'm going to have a period of uploading to both while i check out how dailymotion do it, but i think this is where i'm heading x
it had been in my throat for a few days,
it made me about 10 minutes late for my 1st rehearsal with spanner jazz punks, an 8 piece band run by D spanner, 5 horns up front and keys, bass, drums behind...
the tenor player was missing, and of the remaining 7, 2 of them were me & D,
leaving 5 new to me, of which i already knew 2...
one of whom was sox, he of leaving CM fame, for awhile he's been the longest surviving old school Cmer, but with him gone the mantle falls to me now... strange title...
i now D and him go back quite away so it wasn't much of a leap...
but the other one i know used to be in my blues workshop many, many years ago...
it was my 1st ever teaching job and i did it for maybe 3/4 years... around the time i was still in hotel full of cops... he played cornet in that band, but he's a trombone player now... strangely similar facial hair to me, although his moustache keeps going when it reaches the chin and goes in opposite directions to the ears...
i've found a new provider for my internet video hosting...
a french group called dailymotion who've been around apparently since before youtube...
they offer better definition than either youtube or googlevideo and although i like the idea of keeping all the improvisations in one place, googlevideo have been getting worse over the last few months in terms of bugs and irritating things...
so here's the LHC from a couple of weeks back in the new place:
in particular i like how the longcat icon is better defined in this version, the sound might be better too...
i'm going to have a period of uploading to both while i check out how dailymotion do it, but i think this is where i'm heading x
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
glass books god daughter
rather typically i arrived at victoria with only moments to spare and as i was buying a ticket i could see my train pulling away,
meaning that i had 30 minutes to wait so i locked up the bike and went into smiths to get grace a book...
roald dahl compendium... too small writing it turned out, me forever thinking she's older/cleverer than she is...
got onto the train about 10 minutes before it was due to go and got out the glass books of the dream eaters which i've borrowed from floopy and is to be honest even more addictive than half-life 2 was last week...
pleasingly the main character of the 1st chapter got onto a train and just as my own train started moving, so did hers... i found myself looking around me to compare her surroundings to mine but there was no comparison... i did however really enjoy looking out of the window, at the sunlight on the grand buildings around victoria, very much bringing to mind half-life 2 somehow...
i found myself thinking how good it all looked - a moment away from thinking how realistic it all looked,
this reality sure is realistic...
anyway the train pulled into brighton eventually and i cycled along the undercliff path to the beach where it was going on... the only really out of towner this time...
fellow godparent S, josiah of course, her M, S's R, (& H, O, D) H 13 now and asking if he could ride my bike... of course i let him...
josiah's friend P and her R & C...
lovely time... much red wine drunk...
watching the sun set into the sea...
grace wonderful, couldn't quite believe that she's 5 now...
then back to josiah & grace's and some time more or less with grace, R & C... at one point walking around josiah's living room with all three of them dangling from me... so glad grace is in my life and very happy she's so accepting of me even though i only see her about once a year these days...
meaning that i had 30 minutes to wait so i locked up the bike and went into smiths to get grace a book...
roald dahl compendium... too small writing it turned out, me forever thinking she's older/cleverer than she is...
got onto the train about 10 minutes before it was due to go and got out the glass books of the dream eaters which i've borrowed from floopy and is to be honest even more addictive than half-life 2 was last week...
pleasingly the main character of the 1st chapter got onto a train and just as my own train started moving, so did hers... i found myself looking around me to compare her surroundings to mine but there was no comparison... i did however really enjoy looking out of the window, at the sunlight on the grand buildings around victoria, very much bringing to mind half-life 2 somehow...
i found myself thinking how good it all looked - a moment away from thinking how realistic it all looked,
this reality sure is realistic...
anyway the train pulled into brighton eventually and i cycled along the undercliff path to the beach where it was going on... the only really out of towner this time...
fellow godparent S, josiah of course, her M, S's R, (& H, O, D) H 13 now and asking if he could ride my bike... of course i let him...josiah's friend P and her R & C...
lovely time... much red wine drunk...
watching the sun set into the sea...grace wonderful, couldn't quite believe that she's 5 now...
then back to josiah & grace's and some time more or less with grace, R & C... at one point walking around josiah's living room with all three of them dangling from me... so glad grace is in my life and very happy she's so accepting of me even though i only see her about once a year these days...
Friday, September 19, 2008
photo meme
take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with your picture.
techy
windows xp service pack 3,
arrived this week, and disabled the bottom part of my screen for a few bootups...
this time it's ok but i really hope it's not an intermittent problem, my old computer used to have it and it drove me balmy...
the next time the problem comes back i'm getting rid of sp3, a whole lot of people on the web saying they have problems...
in other techy news i finished half life 2 last night... great game, great story...
good to have it gone though, all together too compulsive...
and finally i'd like to morn the demise of smartftp, free version,
this week they upped sticks and moved to the pay only way and i'm afraid that means i'm parting company with them,
not to worry, filezilla comes running into the fray, a new face (for me), i'm just marking this transition, one gets used to seeing things a certain way when one does a series of actions every single week...
ok another techy thing, i'm thinking of changing the way i do the rendering for the improvisation, it's been a certain way for years, video & audio, wmv & wma, which i learnt from someone as a way to get good clear images on youtube, googlevideo converts it into divx with mp3 audio, so i'm tempted to start delivering divx with mp3 audio straight to googlevideo...
but vegas won't deliver that, at least not with high enough mp3 rates, (56Kbit/sec), so i've found a great program that will make vegas think it's rendering uncompressed video/audio, but is actually freezing time (quite matrix) and delivering the video - frame by frame to whatever other program you wish,
so i'm going from vegas, through frameserver, into virtualdub...
i haven't yet found the best results but i'm heading in the right direction...
x
arrived this week, and disabled the bottom part of my screen for a few bootups...
this time it's ok but i really hope it's not an intermittent problem, my old computer used to have it and it drove me balmy...
the next time the problem comes back i'm getting rid of sp3, a whole lot of people on the web saying they have problems...
in other techy news i finished half life 2 last night... great game, great story...
good to have it gone though, all together too compulsive...
and finally i'd like to morn the demise of smartftp, free version,
this week they upped sticks and moved to the pay only way and i'm afraid that means i'm parting company with them,
not to worry, filezilla comes running into the fray, a new face (for me), i'm just marking this transition, one gets used to seeing things a certain way when one does a series of actions every single week...
ok another techy thing, i'm thinking of changing the way i do the rendering for the improvisation, it's been a certain way for years, video & audio, wmv & wma, which i learnt from someone as a way to get good clear images on youtube, googlevideo converts it into divx with mp3 audio, so i'm tempted to start delivering divx with mp3 audio straight to googlevideo...
but vegas won't deliver that, at least not with high enough mp3 rates, (56Kbit/sec), so i've found a great program that will make vegas think it's rendering uncompressed video/audio, but is actually freezing time (quite matrix) and delivering the video - frame by frame to whatever other program you wish,
so i'm going from vegas, through frameserver, into virtualdub...
i haven't yet found the best results but i'm heading in the right direction...
x
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
longcat hadron collider
it always feels strange when i haven't blogged in between 2 weekly improvisations,
it was such a mental week last week, including this improvisation, that i simply haven't had the time...
of course part of that mental has been me playing half life 2 which is entirely self inflicted nonsense and indeed did delay the video editing for this improvisation by a few days...
the video editing which took me much longer than usual, partly because of the 4 camera's, partly because of the projector that we forgot to turn off which was projecting the windows xp logo all over the place which i decided to replace with a kaleidoscope wherever i could, and partly for the mad sequence @ about 2:50 minutes...
and if you're in the habit of not watching my improvisations then - shame on you - but apart from that, it's worth checking out at least up to about 4 minutes, even if you don't catch the whole 20 minutes...
it happened on wednesday as promised, the same day the LHC turned on over in switzerland, and of course it's all died down now but around wednesday there were all kinds of news buzz type things going on around it - around the large hadron collider rather than the longcat hadron collider which is what you see below this...
i also had an audition which i'm assuming i didn't get... geek chic jazz trio, met a great double bass player through it though...
anyway i must to bed, just wanted to get some words in there to balance the video's...
at least to 4 minutes if you will ladies and gentlemen:
it was such a mental week last week, including this improvisation, that i simply haven't had the time...
of course part of that mental has been me playing half life 2 which is entirely self inflicted nonsense and indeed did delay the video editing for this improvisation by a few days...
the video editing which took me much longer than usual, partly because of the 4 camera's, partly because of the projector that we forgot to turn off which was projecting the windows xp logo all over the place which i decided to replace with a kaleidoscope wherever i could, and partly for the mad sequence @ about 2:50 minutes...
and if you're in the habit of not watching my improvisations then - shame on you - but apart from that, it's worth checking out at least up to about 4 minutes, even if you don't catch the whole 20 minutes...
it happened on wednesday as promised, the same day the LHC turned on over in switzerland, and of course it's all died down now but around wednesday there were all kinds of news buzz type things going on around it - around the large hadron collider rather than the longcat hadron collider which is what you see below this...
i also had an audition which i'm assuming i didn't get... geek chic jazz trio, met a great double bass player through it though...
anyway i must to bed, just wanted to get some words in there to balance the video's...
at least to 4 minutes if you will ladies and gentlemen:
Monday, September 08, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Rachel
felinity came round last night to share the Big Brother final with us...
and frankly it was a shock all the way through...
at the start of the evening i had reluctantly accepted than Rex would probably win...
but the 1st one to leave out of the 5 was Darnell...?
which threw us right out of our expectations... he gave a good interview... i always liked him, he could be way too mean and mixed up at times but he was for me the most honest...
then Rex left after him and it was all too much... we realised that things weren't at all like we thought they were and we dared to believe that Rachel might win...
Rachel who had been nice and lovely all the way through,
Sara was out next...
she shouldn't have been in the final anyway in my book,
and then it was just Mikey and Rachel left...
either of them would have been a good winner but we wanted Rachel even as we thought it would be Mikey...
the look on Rachel's face as the winner was announced was just so shocked... the look on Luke's bitter and mean face later was very pleasing indeed.... we felt like good had triumphed over evil and we yelled with pleasure...
i'm glad it's over, and i'm glad sweet, nice, welsh Rachel won...
lovely to share it with felinity..
goodbye BB9 x
and frankly it was a shock all the way through...
at the start of the evening i had reluctantly accepted than Rex would probably win...
but the 1st one to leave out of the 5 was Darnell...?
which threw us right out of our expectations... he gave a good interview... i always liked him, he could be way too mean and mixed up at times but he was for me the most honest...
then Rex left after him and it was all too much... we realised that things weren't at all like we thought they were and we dared to believe that Rachel might win...
Rachel who had been nice and lovely all the way through,
Sara was out next...
she shouldn't have been in the final anyway in my book,
and then it was just Mikey and Rachel left...
either of them would have been a good winner but we wanted Rachel even as we thought it would be Mikey...
the look on Rachel's face as the winner was announced was just so shocked... the look on Luke's bitter and mean face later was very pleasing indeed.... we felt like good had triumphed over evil and we yelled with pleasure...
i'm glad it's over, and i'm glad sweet, nice, welsh Rachel won...
lovely to share it with felinity..
goodbye BB9 x
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
the wire & strangers
so finally it ends, dinah away for the night at floopy's feeding their cat and giving her some love... so i choose to watch the last two episodes of season 5 of the wire...
knowing that it's the last series and there is no more...
it was may when i started watching it, virgin central gave me the 1st episode and i did what i do to get the rest of the 1st season...
then the 2nd season, then the 3rd, the 4th...
and now i'm genuinely sad that it's left my life... such great characters and such a ring of truth to it... truth in a TV way, like i know anything about baltimore police, but it rang true...
anyway, i still want to do the longcat hadron collider next wednesday, i have a few possible believers... i hung out with yimkin today and i look forward to doing more music with the man,
but a story... this concerns my trip into the world on monday, searching for video to my hammond organ thing... i see a man sat on a bench by a bit of grassland... near the reservoirs... and he speaks to me - or rather him being there speaks to me, and late on monday night i realise he could represent another verse in the stranger song...
i don't believe i've mentioned the subject before but it's about a stranger, well several strangers... and somehow after seeing this man (who i also video'd, asking his permission to use it afterwards) another verse and a bit started to work out for me in a way that i love, as though the truth of the situation i'm writing about, or maybe my position within it is becoming clear because of a mad creative journey i went on to do with a different piece of music...
anyway, on tuesday i realised i had to go back to that place near the reservoirs, listening to the instrumental, to write the lyrics... so off i pop, it takes me just over 15 minutes to cycle there, i stay there for awhile writing, it gently starts to work...
i decide to check out closer to the reservoir and the river lee and i get a puncture, and me with no stuff (pump, tire levers, puncture repair kit) so i have to flag down passing cyclists, of which there are many, it being round about rush hour by now and the river lee being quite the bicycle highway...
i get about 5 no's before i get a yes, a nice australian man who works in industrial design, and not only does he have all the necessary stuff but he sets about fixing the puncture for me as well...
so now i have another stranger... another verse if i want it, or maybe a middle 8...
like many things in life, you start looking for something and suddenly you've got too many of them...
knowing that it's the last series and there is no more...
it was may when i started watching it, virgin central gave me the 1st episode and i did what i do to get the rest of the 1st season...
then the 2nd season, then the 3rd, the 4th...
and now i'm genuinely sad that it's left my life... such great characters and such a ring of truth to it... truth in a TV way, like i know anything about baltimore police, but it rang true...
anyway, i still want to do the longcat hadron collider next wednesday, i have a few possible believers... i hung out with yimkin today and i look forward to doing more music with the man,
but a story... this concerns my trip into the world on monday, searching for video to my hammond organ thing... i see a man sat on a bench by a bit of grassland... near the reservoirs... and he speaks to me - or rather him being there speaks to me, and late on monday night i realise he could represent another verse in the stranger song...i don't believe i've mentioned the subject before but it's about a stranger, well several strangers... and somehow after seeing this man (who i also video'd, asking his permission to use it afterwards) another verse and a bit started to work out for me in a way that i love, as though the truth of the situation i'm writing about, or maybe my position within it is becoming clear because of a mad creative journey i went on to do with a different piece of music...
anyway, on tuesday i realised i had to go back to that place near the reservoirs, listening to the instrumental, to write the lyrics... so off i pop, it takes me just over 15 minutes to cycle there, i stay there for awhile writing, it gently starts to work...
i decide to check out closer to the reservoir and the river lee and i get a puncture, and me with no stuff (pump, tire levers, puncture repair kit) so i have to flag down passing cyclists, of which there are many, it being round about rush hour by now and the river lee being quite the bicycle highway...
i get about 5 no's before i get a yes, a nice australian man who works in industrial design, and not only does he have all the necessary stuff but he sets about fixing the puncture for me as well...
so now i have another stranger... another verse if i want it, or maybe a middle 8...
like many things in life, you start looking for something and suddenly you've got too many of them...
Monday, September 01, 2008
longcat hadron collider
as well as my weekly improvisation this weekend, i also recorded another hammond organ improvisation, 15 minutes and i'm kind of addicted to it...
it has something of the interplanetary to it... i think...
so today i went out on my bike with it in my ears and took all kinds of bits of video and pictures (some panoramic) which it's my intention to string together with the music into a film...
in other news, the large hadron collider is due to turn on next wednesday and to mark the occasion i'm considering doing an improvisation with more than the average players and calling it the longcat hadron collider... it'll be yr3wk13..
more on that as it takes shape...
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it has something of the interplanetary to it... i think...
so today i went out on my bike with it in my ears and took all kinds of bits of video and pictures (some panoramic) which it's my intention to string together with the music into a film...
in other news, the large hadron collider is due to turn on next wednesday and to mark the occasion i'm considering doing an improvisation with more than the average players and calling it the longcat hadron collider... it'll be yr3wk13..
more on that as it takes shape...
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