Now
My flatmate’s guitar student wrote a song, and we’ve been recording it over the last few days. It’s the best fun. I’m petrified of singing into a microphone, even just to do la-la-las and oo-oo-oohs. This (1GHz overclocked) PC is pretty much at the edge of it’s capabilities playing seven or eight WAVs at once with about fifteen effects (vocal, strummed guitar and bass EQs, trippy phaser and delay for the ‘colour’ guitar, reverbs here there and everywhere, compressor for the drums), causing frustrating glitches. I’m happy that my endless hours of midnight FruityLoopsing are being redeemed. It is great to be learning how to record and mix.
I’m currently reading Small is Beautiful by Schumacher, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, The Victory According to Mark by Mark Horne, Christ’s Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism by Philip Benedict, Something So Strong: Crowded House by Chris Bourke, The Saga of the Volsungs [cheers Deb], The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula le Guin, A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway.
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so when do we geat to listen to the musical delights you speak of?
methinks you read too much.
I’ll try and remember to bring a CD of our progress round tonight.
My goal is to be the World’s Greatest Generalist, so it behooves me to read lots.
ne divide the mind pas.
i was just kidding–do divide the mind. there is a guy that i work with who is a bit of an alternative thinker/lifestyler. our job involves doing heaps of things at once, and his excuse for being inefficient is that it is ‘negative’ to employ/engage your mind on more than one task/topic/concept. he extends this idea to study and vocation. sucks to that, methinks. take, for instance, renaissance thinkers, leonardo da vinci et al. genius, all of them, in every field.
everything is connected to everything.