Logic Pro turned out to be a big disapointment when it comes to Bohlen-Pierce tonality; I can't escape the octave. At least I don't think I can. Not with any degree of accuracy, anyway.Anyway, I got most of the yarn for the scarf, and made a few decisions on CtC; now I just hope I can remember them for next time I have time to work on it.
Mental note: must go to the gym tomorrow. Oh - must fix bike first.
11/20/2006
11/19/2006
Rebooting
Okay then…let’s have another go at this. I’d really like to get into the habit of updating this thing on a somewhat semi-regular basis…think my problem was that I had spent too much time contemplating the topic of that first one, the last one, so it turned out pretty much as I had envisaged it - and that, in turn, set a standard of sorts, that I somewhere inside was kinda reluctant to fail to live up to. Hence my absence.
But away with that. To break the ice, I’ll just list what’s going on in my life right now, broken up into a few different topics.
MUSIC:
Dispelled, I hope, will start rehearsing regularly every other weekend from the coming Saturday on. Of course, I still have no idea whether Per Helsa (or whatever the heir is named - I’ll probably think of it as PH for a while anyway) has officially opened - must call my parents and ask them to snoop for me.
On Tuesday, we might have a first meeting with the new band I might be starting - with me, Mark, and Ceyda. Still a lot of question marks attached to that one, though.
And composing (this one ties in a bit with SCHOOL); I plan to spend a bit of time tomorrow at SOL notating/arranging/composing (yes, in that order, most likely) on Creatorslave to Chaos. Also, I’ve been thinking about a piece of somewhat complex polymetricality; Four voices in different time signatures, repeated over and over again until they all meet up where they started from. I’ll begin with the rhythms, and then assign the pitches to form a large-scale Schenkerian motion - I’ll probably go with an octave-to-root line. And then I’ll assign the drums to accentuate the structural harmonies. And lastly, I’ve also been thinking of making a fugue (though I don’t really have any idea about how it’s done - should be interesting); I’ll probably try the theme I wrote back in Crimson Wall, to that D minor ballad CM wrote. I’ll have to look at it, though; it seems a bit rhythmically awkward (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but…anyway).
SCHOOL:
I must, I repeat MUST pay a bill to one of the nations tomorrow. Awi recommended none in particular, but mostly Wermlands - and, considering I’m in the band for their “spex”, that might be as good an idea as any. Yeah, let’s.
Also, I should read the rest of the book we’re having a discussion on this Tuesday. And I’m way behind on writing those reports on it, so that I must get started on this week, too.
As for my thesis, I’ll experiment with comprovising some in the BP scale while I’m at SOL tomorrow. If I decide it’s feasible, I might go with that topic - otherwise I should try and suggest changing to some sort of PoS analysis. Either way, I’ll leave that for next semester mostly, anyway.
MASSAGE:
I plan to attend a seminar on starting a company on Wednesday; after that (or during), I’ll fill out and hand in an application for starting my business, and then I’ll get that going over the winter, hopefully.
KNITTING:
G. is flying to Scotland tomorrow morning, and I’m planning to start knitting my Elemental version of the Inner Truth Scarf as a Christmas (no, make that Yuletide) present for her. Hence, I’ll try to keep it out of her view until then. She has picked out the yarn & colours she wants, though, so it’s just the result I’ll try and keep secret. Guess I’ll have to knit it while commuting or so, but with six active strands of yarn, I don’t know how I’ll manage. At least I can begin it at home, anyway.
But away with that. To break the ice, I’ll just list what’s going on in my life right now, broken up into a few different topics.
MUSIC:
Dispelled, I hope, will start rehearsing regularly every other weekend from the coming Saturday on. Of course, I still have no idea whether Per Helsa (or whatever the heir is named - I’ll probably think of it as PH for a while anyway) has officially opened - must call my parents and ask them to snoop for me.
On Tuesday, we might have a first meeting with the new band I might be starting - with me, Mark, and Ceyda. Still a lot of question marks attached to that one, though.
And composing (this one ties in a bit with SCHOOL); I plan to spend a bit of time tomorrow at SOL notating/arranging/composing (yes, in that order, most likely) on Creatorslave to Chaos. Also, I’ve been thinking about a piece of somewhat complex polymetricality; Four voices in different time signatures, repeated over and over again until they all meet up where they started from. I’ll begin with the rhythms, and then assign the pitches to form a large-scale Schenkerian motion - I’ll probably go with an octave-to-root line. And then I’ll assign the drums to accentuate the structural harmonies. And lastly, I’ve also been thinking of making a fugue (though I don’t really have any idea about how it’s done - should be interesting); I’ll probably try the theme I wrote back in Crimson Wall, to that D minor ballad CM wrote. I’ll have to look at it, though; it seems a bit rhythmically awkward (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, but…anyway).
SCHOOL:
I must, I repeat MUST pay a bill to one of the nations tomorrow. Awi recommended none in particular, but mostly Wermlands - and, considering I’m in the band for their “spex”, that might be as good an idea as any. Yeah, let’s.
Also, I should read the rest of the book we’re having a discussion on this Tuesday. And I’m way behind on writing those reports on it, so that I must get started on this week, too.
As for my thesis, I’ll experiment with comprovising some in the BP scale while I’m at SOL tomorrow. If I decide it’s feasible, I might go with that topic - otherwise I should try and suggest changing to some sort of PoS analysis. Either way, I’ll leave that for next semester mostly, anyway.
MASSAGE:
I plan to attend a seminar on starting a company on Wednesday; after that (or during), I’ll fill out and hand in an application for starting my business, and then I’ll get that going over the winter, hopefully.
KNITTING:
G. is flying to Scotland tomorrow morning, and I’m planning to start knitting my Elemental version of the Inner Truth Scarf as a Christmas (no, make that Yuletide) present for her. Hence, I’ll try to keep it out of her view until then. She has picked out the yarn & colours she wants, though, so it’s just the result I’ll try and keep secret. Guess I’ll have to knit it while commuting or so, but with six active strands of yarn, I don’t know how I’ll manage. At least I can begin it at home, anyway.
9/13/2006
So, this will be my first foray into the wonderful world of blogging...yay.
As I write this, I'm copying my CD collection - or, at least, the better (in both senses) part of it - to my new iPod. That will be a somewhat complicated process; since the iPod doesn't support FireWire, and my computor doesn't support USB 2.0, I won't want to use the direct route. Instead I'll load the music into the computor, transfer it to the external hard drive, connect THAT to my flatmate's laptop (whose hard drive is too small to store all the music at once - and I want to have to reapeat as few steps in the process as possible), from where, finally, I'll be able to get it to the iPod.
I liked my older one better. What did Apple really gain by taking away the FireWire support from the fifth generation iPods? A few MB of memory space? With a 30 GB drive, that doesn't seem like a good bargain to me.
My previous iPod - a third generation one - I lost during an assault and robbery in July. No, I was the victim. I got a blow to the head, that might've been serious, but didn't turn out to be. Just some blood loss, and a few stitches, that's all. Since, people have often chided me for not handing the iPod over when the robber first asked for it. Why didn't I? Well, for starters, I simply didn't want to lose it. I'm ensured, of course, but there's always the excess part, that I didn't feel like paying just because I was threatened.
Also, I feel somewhere that it's some kind of democratic responsibility to not give in to threat. I don't think the argument is all that clear, but it's something like this; by not giving in, I show my robber that I won't be bullied into submission. In doing so, I raise the stakes; he has to choose between giving it up, or retorting to violence to get it. The theory was working; he didn't WANT to bludgeon me - as he left me, he commented that "that was unneccessary of you, wasn't it?". In practice, however, it failed. But, had I given in directly, I would've contributed to a sense of "this is so easy, everybody should do it", I think. That's not an attitude I want to help to spread in society.
As I write this, I'm copying my CD collection - or, at least, the better (in both senses) part of it - to my new iPod. That will be a somewhat complicated process; since the iPod doesn't support FireWire, and my computor doesn't support USB 2.0, I won't want to use the direct route. Instead I'll load the music into the computor, transfer it to the external hard drive, connect THAT to my flatmate's laptop (whose hard drive is too small to store all the music at once - and I want to have to reapeat as few steps in the process as possible), from where, finally, I'll be able to get it to the iPod.
I liked my older one better. What did Apple really gain by taking away the FireWire support from the fifth generation iPods? A few MB of memory space? With a 30 GB drive, that doesn't seem like a good bargain to me.
My previous iPod - a third generation one - I lost during an assault and robbery in July. No, I was the victim. I got a blow to the head, that might've been serious, but didn't turn out to be. Just some blood loss, and a few stitches, that's all. Since, people have often chided me for not handing the iPod over when the robber first asked for it. Why didn't I? Well, for starters, I simply didn't want to lose it. I'm ensured, of course, but there's always the excess part, that I didn't feel like paying just because I was threatened.
Also, I feel somewhere that it's some kind of democratic responsibility to not give in to threat. I don't think the argument is all that clear, but it's something like this; by not giving in, I show my robber that I won't be bullied into submission. In doing so, I raise the stakes; he has to choose between giving it up, or retorting to violence to get it. The theory was working; he didn't WANT to bludgeon me - as he left me, he commented that "that was unneccessary of you, wasn't it?". In practice, however, it failed. But, had I given in directly, I would've contributed to a sense of "this is so easy, everybody should do it", I think. That's not an attitude I want to help to spread in society.
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