Monday 17 December 2007

I've been back at the eye hospital this morning for my iritis check, so I now have more drops and a schedule for weaning myself off the steroid ones, whoopee.

Before bed last night I spent half an hour recording some improvisation based around the Casio MT-45 (no it's not me in that clip) that's been lying around the study for a year or two. Inspired by sharing a welcome Duvel with Alan Emslie on Saturday night after our gig, and watching Fred Frith go shopping for noisy food ingredients in Step Across the Border, yesterday I bought a packet of Aduki beans and tipped them into the large Bruichladdich 3D3 tin that's been lying around here too. Sounds huge.

Anyway, I've no more professional musical engagements to fulfil before the new year, so it's time to think about Christmas and get on with that.

later
Thanks to Tony Currie for furnishing me with a copy of Scotlandia by Geraldo and his Orchestra, which served as the station ident for STV for many years. For me it's the sound of being off school: STV would play it at about 9.30am along with the transmitter information before programmes started.

My favourite sentence from today's reading has got to be: "The first commercial application of digitized audio technology was the prosaic delay line, which replaced the garden hose as a means for creating long audio delays in sound reinforcement." Garden hose?? No explanation given. That's quite a good illustration of how the book as a whole is alternately fascinatingly lucid and maddeningly obscure.

Internet connection failed tonight. I rang the service status line to see if there was a local problem, and the service status line had been disconnected. Thank you Virgin media.