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.

Woah. My new hurdy gurdy’s piezo pickups are amazing. Big thanks to @Nigel Eaton and @Neil Brook for their advice.

Nice to hear a song about luthiers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dFohVOJEM

The new Kipling ad music sounds very much like the wendigo by Steve Tyler

plastic-hill-concrete-dale

Playing with Ableton Live Lite, courtesy of @SoundCloud. Counter intuitive but flexible. I like it.

I finally got a MIDI controller! No more reliance on my stylophone for synth controls.

Flook have to be one of the best folk bands I’ve ever heard. I wish I had been able to see them live