Monday 3 May 2010

It's taken me four and a half days to clear the backlog of email from being away for six. And that's with having my phone and laptop with me to deal with the quick urgent ones while I was away. 

Meanwhile I've also done the first round of editing on the Edinburgh live CD booklet, which looks great and has a selection of my rehearsal photos in it, some of which will be familiar to readers of this diary. I've been reorganising this room, so that I can keep the harpsichord beside me and gradually work my way through some Mackintosh and the various keyboard MSS from Boughton which now reside in scans on my laptop. It would be nice to set aside a few days to do just that, but magically free days aren't going to come along now for a very long time. On Saturday I realised that I was getting very stressed because having the harpsichord in its usual place meant that I had to engage in some climbing to get either to the sofa or to my guitar on the wall. So now it's in front of all the bookshelves, and I have to take a very circuitous route to get to them, but I have easy access to floor, sofa and guitar so that's OK.

We got a no from a different funding body for our Revenge of the Folksingers project, so at some point this week I will slave over a hot spreadsheet and make some awkward decisions as to what shape it will take. Most artistic decisions (as opposed to ideas) are financially driven, of course. 

Thanks to the nice freecycler who has offered to bring over his old hifi amp, after our kitchen one blew up unexpectedly on Saturday night. Incidentally, if you listen to the Glee soundtrack albums from another room, you can clearly hear which solo voices have been processed to death with Autotune - some of the ensemble harmonies sounds suspiciously like equal temperament too ...