Idled my day away yesterday, doing that too often. Still, today's sunny and the beach is calling. Why not? No music to write, a couple of app reviews but no hurry on those. Really will have to look for some proper work.... next week seems ideal for that. :)

Apparently they're talking about stretching the Hobbit to three films. Desperate, cynical, depressing. I spose LOTR turned into such a money-making machine they just couldn't resist.

The Grand Egg and Spoon starts today. More cynical money-making but thank heavens for Jessica Ennis and her cute bottom. Oh, and beach volleyball. Roll on it all being over!!

This blog appears to have mostly degenerated into my ramblings about work I'm not doing, or should be doing. It takes maybe a minute of my time to write and has no thought either, so any good ideas always occur later. I think I'm losing the plot, which reminds me...

Heartbeat stuff uploaded today, turns out they liked the early ambient ones after all so it's five tracks (including alt mixes) and edits. All done so I can return to "the infernal machine" and get that polished off.

first a spot of lunch methinks!

Spent the morning working on tension beds with heartbeats. Thought I'd buggered the Modfactor too (swapped for the Filterbank 2) but managed to rescue it with the help of a file found on the Mac and the old laptop, the only thing that appears to be able to perform the update without screwing up. Note to self: don't try with MIDI again!!
This evening Pat working and I'm in between engagements. Tony and Colin here tomorrow, will try and get Elka fixed if poss rather than have it go away, plus will look at Synthi and get P2K power supply sorted. Feel a bit of a loose end. Should work on that infernal thang but I'll leave it until Sunday night I think. Need time to get in the mood for that one final push.
Enjoyed the Ideation gig so much am considering flogging the Octatrack. Life's so much easier without it and all it really does for me is play long static files. The rest of the stuff I can do easier with other gear and I really miss using the ESX-1 for its immediacy. It was very obvious when I was showing stuff off to David (Modfactor guy) that demoing the esx from scratch was easy and I never even considered trying to so the same for the Octa. Wish someone else would bring out a product that simply streamed long stuff from card, I'd go with that I think.
Or am I being foolish (again)?

Chuffed, the gig went well. Even my theremin playing was not a disaster. Lots of good comments after too so we seem to have gone across well also. Happy days! Now back to work, review to finish and that heartbeat tension music to do. Life is good!

Experimented with theremin and freqbox. May take that to gig and see what noises it makes. Wild huh?

Turns out the theremin not so badly out so I've wasted weeks. Still gonna take to gig I think but will probably  concentrate on fx though!

Dunno when I'll get time to work on gig. Not much I suspect so thank goodness we practised.

cracking w/e practising with pete for awakenings. first track we did was brill - hour long too! other stuff of interest also, spawned some good ck ideas too in terms of performance need - jolly useful. stuck in horrible traffic queue on way home though, sat on m40 for over an hour.
This week must send off the app review (almost done) plus work on diva and calibrate theremin and do stuff with tim, time permitting. Really should find some new library work!
tempus fugit....