Off to sidmouth FF with my brother and my Gurdy.
Off to sidmouth FF with my brother and my Gurdy.
This was the performance that made Gilles Chabenet my new favourite gurdy player: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZdVgitZUBg
Finally back home after Chateau d’Ars. Wow.
Off to France, brb #chateaudars
Off to France, brb #chateaudars
Off to the workshop to make some last minute changes to my Vio Gurdy before Chateau d’Ars!
I did another Vio Gurdy Video: Foggy Dew: http://youtu.be/C30D9QH-wIc
The undocumented compositions and noodlings are stacking up. Time for a two-hour slog to get them all ABC’d
Wooo! Came up with a new (AFAIK) Hurdy Gurdy technique.
Got an invite to the @soundcloud beta — Finally I don’t have to fake my UA string to listen to audio! Thank you!
Doing a fret dress whilst listening to Peter Gabriel. I love my job.
Playing my Gurdy and the 1920s Winsor banjo I’ve just repaired is humming along.
I love living in a household where, triggered by me whistling a bar of a tune from Riverdance, half the family picks it up and it echoes through the house
11.5ms is optimum remote musical collaboration latency! Or so Stanford tell us: http://opensoundcontrol.org/files/gurevich-latency.pdf
Pyo tip: Turn down the master volume if you’re getting nasty scratches + pops in your recordings
I used to think that us Brits, collectively, were a bit rubbish at making trad folk songs new
Then I found out about Solarference.
Wow.
My contribution to jubilee celebrations: played at Holbeton’s St. Party. It was huge for such a small village, very impressive!
Achievement Unlocked: Successfully navigated French booking system. I’m coming to Chateau d’Ars this year.
Nice to hear a song about luthiers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dFohVOJEM