Live Streaming...

 Well, it's the reason I bought that camera after all - still need to get slick and going to talk to Virgin about updating my shitty router. Then I can agree a slot for Morphic Resonance and play them some live noodles. Just listening to some Headshock and thinking it'd be nice to slip in a surprise 'Rupert' or something - quite possible as it's all in BlackBox format. Will see what Tim thinks - would want him there anyway to maybe man a second camera, unless that makes it all too complicated. 
And that's the thing - doing anything with video/visuals always gets more complicated than just doing music and letting someone else sort the clever stuff. Anyway, it's something to work at.

Today I started hacking the garden, removed all the growth that gives easy ratty access to the bird table - I think Margaret has maybe not been going into the garden much and they've become bold. Broc useless so far in this respect. 

Friday. Tried streaming with my ice-cooled laptop. Seemed to work with only one person reporting dropout (Tim). Obviously more tests needed with a bigger audience but still, hopeful. Gonna sell the Tanzbar to raise cash for Macbook. Recorded what I did, in case it turned out OK, and I think it did. Only readers of Sheldrake will understand the title...

https://paulnagle.bandcamp.com/album/telepathic-dogs-and-easier-crosswords

Another sunny day, nice morning for a walk with Broc then back for a bit more garden hacking, or beer drinking. Too hot for studio. 

Sunday, last day of freedom before three days of William. It's cooler so you never know.. tuned in to last night's Morphic Resonance - I think there were 16 viewers at its peak but I suppose I've played gigs to fewer people, like that time I drove to fucking Ipswich to support Ian Boddy. If I'm going to perform anywhere it's best I do it from here, that way I can maybe get some good recordings. 

No interest on the Tanzbar yet, might need to advertise in other places.

Porto Santo

 No, I had no idea either. It's a tiny island off Madeira and we're here for 2 weeks. Meant to be a five star place but I'd give it a tentative four. Anyone who is afraid of AI's impact on music has never had to sit by a pool and hear the output of supposed human intelligence - hard to imagine anything artificial that could be worse. 

Seen some wildlife including an Iberian green frog, will try and record it croaking if I can. Got cold and ready for home well in advance of going.

It gets better and better. Email from TUI tells us the Portugese immigration are on strike on Monday, when we hope to fly home. No idea yet of the impact or how much delay it will cause but given we're ready to go and have been for several days, could be a frustrating time.
When I get home need to sort online performance thing as have agreed to do a Morphic Resonance. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have but perhaps it'll wake me up a bit. 

Home! Yay. Margaret has not burned the house down, Broc has survived...

May be

Yeah, it's May and you're maybe wondering if I feel bad for buying a drum machine from Evil Uli? Well,  would you feel bad if you'd bought a watercolour from Adolf Hitler? Or Rolf Harris? I mean, bear with me: suppose Adolf had been encouraged more and had gone on to carve out a nice little career painting and touring art galleries and whatnot... he'd have been a happy little chappy, true? Anyway, the RD-8 is even better than the RD-9 cos all its sounds are ace. The two together really are all the drum machine(s) I (should) ever need.

Well, Rachmaninov's 3rd symphony is just ending so I should stop typing this shit. His 2nd is my favourite BTW - and Dm, Em then Am seems a good running order for symphonies in general. (I'd follow with Gm and Bm).  

That was today (Saturday).