Friday 30 March 2007

It's demo city here, as Martyn Jaques has sent a huge pile of songs for our forthcoming Monteverdi tribute at the Edinburgh Festival, and I have to think about how to make them sound a bit like Monteverdi. So next week I shall be immersing myself in Monteverdi madrigals: not a bad thing to do anyway.  I've been back in demo-land myself, engaging with VST plugins and iterative quantization, to render my newly-learnt guitar chords presentable to the public. Well, presentable to my iPod at least - my MySpace page is probably as near to the public as they'll get. Sushil helped me come up with a great potential album title though: Deviant Porridge.

Alison came over for lunch today on her way to plant trees, and we picked a Schetky quartet to play in Orkney. And later on, en route to the library, I dropped in on Greg who gave me a copy of the new Moishe's Bagel CD - you can go here and buy one now. Go on.

But today I have been completely upstaged by Susie, who's won a national competition to nominate the next Children's Laureate, and will be taking me to the inauguration in London in June to have her photograph taken with him/her. Although it's officially a secret, we think we know who it's going to be.