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.