Working on this past week:
- Practicing: still swamped with upcoming concert music, noodling a little with the Bach 6
- Listening: I’ve been on an algorithmically-assisted hunt for new-to-me baroque music, or new-to-me recordings of old favorites, seeded by some old-to-me recordings of old favorites
- Writing/recording: zeroed in this week on building structure for an old mockup I did of a sort of hybrid rhythmic cello ensemble thing. Fun to develop it further.
On a long kick of reading/watching stories about stories. I think it started last year when I watched White Noise and The Fabelmans back to back. (That was a weird pairing, to be honest.) Recently caught up to The Starless Sea. (Loved it.) And…can I claim Only Murders season 3? (No, maybe not. Funny stuff, though…)
Speaking of long quests, I’m on a glacially slow hunt for the perfect A string for my cello. Larsens are fine but die a shrieking death after 6mos. Versum Solo only lasted 3mos and was a little too bright for me (though people said nice things about my tone, maybe I should sell a kidney and revisit…). Rondo didn’t work for my instrument (though I love that D string). Kaplan was like 97% what I want for tone and playability and lasted a year. Trying a Pirastro next. I’ll report back in like 100 years.
Revisiting Imogen Cunningham. And…from Mark Anthony Fox, is this not the most perfect photograph ever made of a cup of coffee? (Swipe to the 3rd photo–though the portrait is also amazing.)
There’s a pair of doves nesting on our kitchen window sill, so we’re trying not to scare them off (though they don’t seem all that bothered by us).
