Working on this past week:
- Practicing: upcoming concert music, some teaching material, Bach 6 Allemande (full movement)
- Listening: Wispelwey’s Vivaldi Sonatas is, like, a perfect record. Back in heavy rotation around here–as it often is–over these past few weeks.
- Writing/recording: the cello quartet has morphed for now into a fast jazz song for piano trio + strings acting like a horn section…
(…and I really enjoyed this episode of The Treatment, with Branford Marsalis talking about how George Wolfe didn’t want any strings on Rustin..)
I’m finally trying Cubasis, and I’m really enjoying it! Smart use of the touchscreen…and it feels easy to shuffle ideas back and forth between my notebook and Cubasis and the DAW or notation software on my laptop. Good stuff on the go.
Interesting (for all of us bookworms and parents of bookworms): https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic/
Victor Wooten playing Amazing Grace is unparalleled (and so much fun to watch). Revisited it this week to show our kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkFJkbm3vA
Love this: https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/02/john-steinbeck-working-days/
Small tech note: I was having trouble with voicemails coming through slowly on my iPhone with Cricket, but going to deleted messages and clearing all permanently seems to have solved it.
Like it (for archiving media backups): https://fastglacier.com/
Important: Tim Harford on “The art of making good misstakes” (sic, haha)
Still trying to figure out which screenings we can catch in between gigs this year, but we’re excited for the Alexandria Film Festival‘s return!