Month: October 2023

Working on this past week:

• Practicing: upcoming concert music, Bach 6 Allemande (2nd half), some vln/vla/vlc trios with friends (these Mozart K.404a transcriptions of Bach are super cool for how they use the string trio)
• Listening: Musica Antiqua Latina’s “Corelli Bolognese – Trio Sonatas by Corelli and his Successors” has been in heavy rotation in our house (again) this week. Amazing album. https://open.spotify.com/album/3t0DJaxOK0utOV9TpScYxk
• Writing/recording: sketching out a cello quartet

I’ve kicked off an adventure with a used Canon Pixma Pro-10. AMAZING printer. Came with a clogged head that I expected to replace, but I was able to get it unclogged (burning a tremendous amount of ink with the built-in nozzle cleaning process). So…yet more ink and it’s in action! The prints are truly gorgeous — lovely detail and tone and color, rich blacks. Properly archival pigment inks. The danger with pigment inks is that the head reclogs if I don’t use it often enough. Meaning…daily prints! I’m using Moab paper for final prints, but I’ve now ordered a bunch of (much cheaper) Inkpress 4×6 for proofing and snapshots. Lovely stuff.

We had rather a nice evening playing string quartets by the fire at Barboursville Vineyards.

This Vahdam Darjeeling First Flush is DELICIOUS (now that I’ve got my head around brewing it; keeping the temperature at or below 200° F makes a massive difference to the flavor).

Got back into the Gramophone Podcast this week, incl. their episode on Dvořák piano trios. Phenomenal recording.

Interesting: https://petapixel.com/2023/10/06/a-20mp-sensor-in-a-film-canister-reinvigorates-vintage-analog-cameras/

Horrified, as we all are, by the news of attacks on Israel.

Working on this past week:

• Practicing: upcoming concert music; Bach 6 Allemande (1st half) (using the lovely Henle / Reiner Ginzel edition)
• Listening: Spotify “Blues & Roots Rock” playlist: https://spotify.link/QrAd06zMzDb (I first got there via the Amythyst Kiah Artist page: https://spotify.link/NNVbkUIMzDb)
• Writing/recording: recording session prep for a jazz piano trio (Summer Nights…)

So important: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/22/jann-wenner-pay-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain

Kind of remembered recently that tea is, uh, amazing! if I treat it as seriously as I usually treat coffee around here. So we got a little teapot from Daiso and a bunch of new loose-leaf green, black, and oolong. It’s been a nice journey and this is helpful: https://artofeating.com/brewing-darjeeling-tea/

Profound: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl/

Want it (ASMAC just ran a fabulous program on this with Joe Johnston and Chris Siddall and a bunch of other stars): https://www.chrissiddallmusic.com/store/p105/The_Rocketeer_In_Full_Score.html

This seems nuts: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkeys-underground-city-of-20000-people