without a synth

all those months ago, the NORD synth arrived from lovely st L...

and now, today, he came round to collect it,

yesterday i had D & JR round, JR playing bass on this weeks improvisation which is now rendering and which is the last improvisation to feature the NORD...

but all is not lost, because the moog will be with me on tuesday (i think), and thus my synth absence will come to an end...

last night i plugged my keyboard into the NORD, and the NORD into the korg D8, (which i used to records last week's improvisation)...

smoked one, and then set about recording the NORD...

dinah was asleep by now and i wanted to get some NORD recorded before it went...

it made me realise just how easy it is to work with the D8, i could roll up pretty much anywhere (with electricity) with my keyboard and the D8 and start recording...

it's a thought...

anyway, off up to D's to pick up my mic...

laters x

synth inspiration

cycling through north london between 8:30 & 9 at night as i did last night is quite a thing, the amount of random fireworks going of all around... i've always liked it...

me & dinah went over to walthamstow on sunday to see fireworks which is also quite likely to be where we'll be living in a months time...

yesterday i'd cycled across london from east to west from work to marylebone crossing about 4 or 5 different north/south routes that i normally take, i'd never quite gone that straight east west before...

i was meeting K (& G) & dad for an indian meal which was lovely, K told me D & M's cat is going to be in blewbury over christmas and she also started applying pressure for me to move my between christmas and new year dawn project back by a day, (being as it will be dark anyway then), so that i can be around more for M & D who are arriving at some point on the wednesday...

it troubles me but i might just relent...

i paid my 1st congestion charge today for the watts to drive Gordy's car through town for their gig tonight, i'm about to head over to hammersmith for a jam and to pick up my new computer...

and i am so enjoying this synth...

T from this house is having a performance party on saturday and i'm working out what i'm going to perform... it looks likely i'll be using the synth to give a rhythm in a strange way, singing a song for the house i'm leaving...

x

yr2wk20 rhodes, synth & guitar with D

here it is x

synthtastic

st L came round on saturday to drop off his NORD rack synth which i'm checking out with a view to buying off him...

i was deep in editing the improvisation then and didn't get a chance to check out the sounds until later and when i did i couldn't work out a few things... so it remained beautiful but very much not used properly...

i saw him again yesterday where he is a student of mine... in fact the last time i'll be teaching that whole group which is a little sad, they were great... they include S from lucky elephant, G from Show & Prove, and of course st L himself to name but a few...

as it was the end of my teaching them we went out and drank and in fact i drank more than i've drunk for quite some time, me & st L were counting drinks by intervals, the last time we'd been drinking in the summer we'd reached the perfect 5th... this time we reached past the octave... although i was drinking less of each drink the later it got...

me & alcohol don't really mix well, not in large amounts...

so today i woke earlyish with dinah making me a tea, i didn't feel too bad, it could be still on it's way... and i've relooked at the NORD in light of what st L said to me last night, and also i've found a manual online...

so today i am in synth heaven...

i've got to pop over to W(floopy)shaman's in a bit to get the camera but other than that i think i'm going to be synthing all day... x

yr2wk15 rhodes & synth

recorded yesterday and beset by wierd little problems, but it came out good in the end x

synth frustration

so dinah got the advert job and i didn't, they didn't want any keyboard or piano players, they wanted synth players, 8 of them, they had 5 synth players and there was a possibility that i could have been one of the 3 keyboard players synthing themselves up but it didn't happen, which bummed me right out yesterday...

i worked this morning which was great, search & reflect with the production course @ CM, always interesting...

it's a bleak rainy day and i was going to do my improvisation only my batteries are low, charging them up now and i guess i'll try again in an hour or so, or i could just go buy new ones, it's just that it seems like such a waste buying non-rechargeables...

i did begin the improvisation before my camera died and i'm using rhodes, voice and synth, daring the world to accept me as a synth player, a strange new experience, and once again it makes me want to have access to these great sounds in my computer at gigs...

so i'm a little frustrated what with the improvisation all set to go and then the waiting and in a broader sense what with the not getting the advert, although dinah is doing it and it's much better one of us doing it than neither...

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