Tuesday, November 24, 2009
I can't help feelings a sort of ill-defined glumness at the moment. It might just be the weather, or that I'm tired. Either way it's not the most inspirational of feelings. Perhaps it's that I have an assignment due on Friday. After that my evenings will be my own again. Ah, the slow run in to Christmas.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
In bed this morning with a hangover reading Desolation Angels (I felt I needed a break from all these computer music books)...impossibly sad passage about eyeing up girls then realising you're just a drunk old bum that they wouldn't look twice at anyway. Oh, the pathos.
Friday, November 20, 2009
This week it's Friday night in doing my homework. I have to deliver a presentation on Monday...cut to scene of me practising in front of the window in the studio (serves as large mirror at this time of night). Six minutes is all I have. Barely enough time to do an introduction.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Who was it who said madness is repeating the same action again and again but expecting different results? I'm stuck in an endless loop of work all week-pub Friday/Saturday night....
I thought it was going to be gale force winds today? Seems pretty peaceful to me. Nice early morning stroll to pick up a parcel. Sat on the computer tidying up an envelope patch in puredata for my assignment. Cup of tea. Minimal hangover considering the drinking done last night. I downed 2 pints of squash before I went to bed. It works!
I thought it was going to be gale force winds today? Seems pretty peaceful to me. Nice early morning stroll to pick up a parcel. Sat on the computer tidying up an envelope patch in puredata for my assignment. Cup of tea. Minimal hangover considering the drinking done last night. I downed 2 pints of squash before I went to bed. It works!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Things are quiet. I think quiet is good.
Reading Alvin Lucier book on the train this morning, I love an early morning train ride once in a while. Space to think, reminds me that when I used to get the bus to work I'd gobble up about 2 books a week. Anyway, yes, Lucier. So inspiring! I've been worying of late that I've lost my muse a bit...I haven't really been inspired to make any sounds since starting the MA. Been more engrossed in solving problems (tonight, how to force puredata to make an envelope). I need to engage another part of my brain. Is several of the interviews Lucier says words to the effect of "I wanted to make people pick up the shell and hear the sound of the ocean" - ie. to once again take childish delight in sound. After all, that's all that circuit bending or building things on the computer should be about that great moment when "I wonder what it would sound like if I...." becomes a real sound. Or something. I'm rambling.
Reading Alvin Lucier book on the train this morning, I love an early morning train ride once in a while. Space to think, reminds me that when I used to get the bus to work I'd gobble up about 2 books a week. Anyway, yes, Lucier. So inspiring! I've been worying of late that I've lost my muse a bit...I haven't really been inspired to make any sounds since starting the MA. Been more engrossed in solving problems (tonight, how to force puredata to make an envelope). I need to engage another part of my brain. Is several of the interviews Lucier says words to the effect of "I wanted to make people pick up the shell and hear the sound of the ocean" - ie. to once again take childish delight in sound. After all, that's all that circuit bending or building things on the computer should be about that great moment when "I wonder what it would sound like if I...." becomes a real sound. Or something. I'm rambling.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Grumpy old man
Recently observed meme - kids (presume it's kids) have discovered that a 2p coin wedges perfectly in the aperture for the button in a pelican crossing*. For fucks sake. What is the point? I feel officially of grumpy old man status.
Recently observed and badly spelt graffiti "y do u keep erasin my tag, I'm only gonna do it again LOL". In my grumpier moments I think this individual should have this tatooed on his forehead.
*sorry about the description, you know the sort of circular recess that the wait button is in.
Recently observed meme - kids (presume it's kids) have discovered that a 2p coin wedges perfectly in the aperture for the button in a pelican crossing*. For fucks sake. What is the point? I feel officially of grumpy old man status.
Recently observed and badly spelt graffiti "y do u keep erasin my tag, I'm only gonna do it again LOL". In my grumpier moments I think this individual should have this tatooed on his forehead.
*sorry about the description, you know the sort of circular recess that the wait button is in.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
On discussing our super new appointee (double first, brain size of a planet etc...) I am slated as "not like them, I mean, they have options". If I were a bitter person....
