The mug, day 3 (Day 344/365)
All right, it was too big, so I threw it in the slop bin. I’ll start over tomorrow. And my session with the bassists/marimba was postponed until tomorrow. So I’ll be creative tomorrow. Not so much today.
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The mug, day 2 (Day 343/365)
I went to check on my mug today, and it’s enormous. It’s a vase. It has not shrunk at all. Nevertheless, I took it down off the drying shelf and worked on the labyrinth, cleaning that up. I didn’t have a lot of time, but I got that done. Tomorrow, I’ll have to go in […]
And now for something completely different (Day 342/365)
I roused myself this afternoon and went to the ceramics studio, where I made a mug. Here’s the deal: twenty years ago (!) I made a mug at GHP. It’s quite a lovely thing. Here it is: It’s very beautiful. I think it at least approaches, if not attains, wabi-sabi. So I figure, what the […]
Things to do (Day 341/365)
Tired of getting nothing done, and yet not up to the sustained effort required to write music or lyrics, I headed over to my super-secret website, Things to Do Before You’re 60, and made a concerted effort towards my goal of contributing 25 items to the list this summer. I wrote ten, which is pretty […]
Piddling (Day 339/365)
For some reason my brain would not engage today. For once I had gotten plenty of sleep, but nothing would make my head start working. I listened to the two songs from Moonlight a couple of times, but nothing new occurred to me. I thought about getting through another handful of pages in the Logic […]
Chorus (Day 338/365)
My free time today was devoted to rehearsing with the All-Campus Chorus. This year, we’re doing Vivaldi’s Gloria. Yes, I know, nothing particularly challenging about it, and I have raised my eyebrows and pursed my lips at its selection. When Stephen bragged about how well the runthrough with the music minors had gone, I reminded […]
Quick work (Day 337/365)
It dawned on me that I had better print out the music I do have, if Marc and his mouselings are going to use it, so I went to do that. It was then I discovered that I hadn’t finished harmonizing Thurgood’s tango. So I just squeezed out some chords, and I’m not sure whether […]
Nothing (Day 336/365)
I thought I would whip out another melody for Moonlight today, but I didn’t. I got caught up in PMD duties, specifically getting ready for the All-Campus Chorus this weekend.
Sheer poetry (Day 335/365)
Today I was forced to work. But first, this report: I was in the Fine Arts building today, looking for Stephen Czarkowski to ask when would be a good time to meet with the bass players to get some feedback on the “Dance.” As it happened, right then. I got dragged into a practice room […]
More Logic (Day 334/365)
Really minimal today. I ran through the next lesson on Logic, learning more about getting sound files into a “song project,” but didn’t really get anything done. The program is getting more and more complicated by the page. When I left off, I was supposed to be assimilating the methods by which you can assign […]