I kept thinking about how much Gitta would have enjoyed this....
Monday, December 14, 2009
An evening of drumming
photos from an evening of drumming last night
I kept thinking about how much Gitta would have enjoyed this....
I kept thinking about how much Gitta would have enjoyed this....
Sunday, December 13, 2009
the weekend
His Wolfeness is trying to make me homesick. he sends these video snippets (usually 5 seconds or less - sometimes too short for me to actually figure out where he is) of different places in the Bay Area. This one is from the KPFA Crafts Fair, an event he and I had attended together every year between 1994 and 2006.
scrambled to Good Shepherd Chapel last night for day-two of the Seattle Phonographer's Union performances.
Chris Delaurenti
Steve Peters
Phonographers
Watching this performance was a bit like watching internet poker players.*
* clarification: sonically, it was a fabulous evening. I always find these events visually strange, however.
scrambled to Good Shepherd Chapel last night for day-two of the Seattle Phonographer's Union performances.
Chris Delaurenti
Steve Peters
PhonographersWatching this performance was a bit like watching internet poker players.*
* clarification: sonically, it was a fabulous evening. I always find these events visually strange, however.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
graphic ideas
OK, so season nine isn't exactly around the corner (slated to begin after the course in Italy) but it is time to begin thinking about it....
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
another one for Gitta
Aleksandr Hrustevich, teenage Ukrainian accordion virtuoso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Bn4m6dQbI
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Travis and Igor...
Steve Ball invited Igor and Travis to join them for a last minute gig at a coffee shop in Captial Hill. I caught a few moments of the performance, espresso machine and all.
Monday, November 9, 2009
remodeling at the office
At the office, the demolition of walls took place during the weekend. Temporary plastic walls were up to limit dust from traveling. They also limited our movement through the office. One of my co-workers made stick figure portraits of each of us on it.
my co-worker Leif has been in a mixed martial arts tournament over the weekend and had a souvenir to show for it.
my co-worker Leif has been in a mixed martial arts tournament over the weekend and had a souvenir to show for it.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Robert's shoes
Robert gave the Seattle team the gig shoes he has worn for many, many years.
a blurry Jax with RF's shoes
a blurry Jax with RF's shoesTuesday, November 3, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
learning music, crows
Lesson with Curt today. We have been working on the bouree of one of the Bach cello suites. This has been slow, measure by measure work offering me opportunities to learn many things simultaneously. I have prepared for the lesson by finding the sheet music online and struggling through learning the notes for the next two measures. While the notes have been nominally learned, the phrasing and musicality is absent. (Well, to be fair, I got a tiny, tiny taste of the flavor of the first measure, but absolutely none of the second.) Despite my efforts to understand the sheet music (even studying a recording) it is only a series of notes. At the lesson, Curt infuses them with music. Still, it takes many, many repetitions before any of this musicality moves into my hands. I listen to him and in my mind's eye, I see the sheet music I have been studying - trying to leap the chasm between the black marks on a page and the sounds I am hearing. Before leaving the lesson, I have managed a dozen or so executions of the new measures. Later, arriving at the office, I pull the guitar from its case and remind myself of what has just been learned. At lunch, I do the same, but I find that the second measure is lost! I can only play it as I was able on arriving to the lesson - a dry series of notes of equal weight and emphasis. I am a human sieve for musical knowledge. It takes ~fifteen minutes of exploring to find the door back to the music.
Departing from the office in the thick atmosphere of storm clouds at the verge of sunset, the landscape is covered in cawing crows. They fill the trees and line the tops of buildings like snipers. Their caw, caw, cawing is so strange. not quite menacing; a raucous gravitas. I am tempted to linger. As I write this, I wonder why I didn't.
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Departing from the office in the thick atmosphere of storm clouds at the verge of sunset, the landscape is covered in cawing crows. They fill the trees and line the tops of buildings like snipers. Their caw, caw, cawing is so strange. not quite menacing; a raucous gravitas. I am tempted to linger. As I write this, I wonder why I didn't.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Sunday in Seattle
energy is returning slowly.
housekeeping, weekly lunch & dinner prep, (wild rice salad & apple coleslaw)
reading (Gurdjieff Third Series and Fagle's The Odyssey)
guitar practice
sensing a photographic impasse - embarked on a self-assignment - to make images in the style of two photographers familiar to me. a mixed result. still, it was good to see.
housekeeping, weekly lunch & dinner prep, (wild rice salad & apple coleslaw)
reading (Gurdjieff Third Series and Fagle's The Odyssey)
guitar practice
sensing a photographic impasse - embarked on a self-assignment - to make images in the style of two photographers familiar to me. a mixed result. still, it was good to see.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Oct 15 2009
some images from tonight's pre-show:
David lent me a couple of lenses he's selling. Of the two, the wide angle (17mm) held the most promise for me. However, being a financial realist, I have returned both this evening until some plan for payment might be devised.
Assuming, of course, that he doesn't find a buyer elsewhere first.
After the show last night, a huddle appeared over the piano. It seems Ingrid brought a book she made of Guitar Craft images over the years. Tony, Bill, Jax & Diana huddle for a closer look.
David lent me a couple of lenses he's selling. Of the two, the wide angle (17mm) held the most promise for me. However, being a financial realist, I have returned both this evening until some plan for payment might be devised.
Assuming, of course, that he doesn't find a buyer elsewhere first.
After the show last night, a huddle appeared over the piano. It seems Ingrid brought a book she made of Guitar Craft images over the years. Tony, Bill, Jax & Diana huddle for a closer look.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
A cold, gray Saturday in Seattle
Tony oversees the metronomeTonyG. is in town for the next few weeks! He dropped in for the rehearsal this morning and had great observations about the sound in the space. With the way sound moves in this space, there is a real question about what it measn to play 'in time'.
An afternoon house circle at Curts. Circulations in A Minor.
Planning to make prints donations. In the process of researching the considerations.
An afternoon house circle at Curts. Circulations in A Minor.
Planning to make prints donations. In the process of researching the considerations.
Friday, October 9, 2009
This you know what it is that you see? Well think again.
Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
Thursday, October 8, 2009
This article was worth it for this phrase alone....
The reason the world is still waiting for the Messiah is that most people don’t actually want one...
from an article on healthy food in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Oliver-t.html?pagewanted=all
from an article on healthy food in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Oliver-t.html?pagewanted=all
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Hartstine Island
just home from a refreshing weekend at Hartstine Island. that makes two great weekend trips in two weeks. would love to spend the next week in the studio, but the day gig prevents this.
