Fiddle and bass

Kenny went fishing with our friend Fred today; he caught (and released) 7 bluegills and a largemouth bass. (Possibly fewer than 7 bluegills but 7 catches: Fred said one of them looked familiar.) Afterward we went to a coffeehouse in Oneida where Kate and several other fiddlers/violinists played a recital. Kate and her friend Liz [...]

Generalized continued fractions and equal temperament

(In which we get mathematical about strange divisions of the octave)

Sweetness, Ale, and Fluxx

An unusually, for us, social weekend. Our friend Karin was in town and we joined her and her husband Tom (who hasn’t left town yet) for what was going to be an Armory Square pub crawl, starting at Middle Ages Brewing Company; this was good because we’d gotten a Middle Ages gift certificate for Christmas. [...]

Walking With Woodlice

My new Interröbang Cartel song, “Walking With Woodlice”, is now available!

MIDI smash

I’ve been looking into why Melody Assistant and GarageBand seem to have trouble communicating on the subject of pitch bend.
Turns out, Melody Assistant puts a pitch bend range of +-24 semitones in the MIDI files it writes.  GarageBand, on the other hand, apparently ignores this and assumes +-2 semitones.  Thus all pitch bends are rendered [...]

You know you want one

This may be the only chance you get to buy a baritone rothphone.

Random link propagation

Carmina Burana, alternate lyrics.

live365

I don’t know why I haven’t checked out live365 before this, but I am doing so now. Given my tastes in music I’ve got to be at least somewhat pleased over a setup that brings us stations like:

New World Enigma Radio — Now featuring epic masterpieces, no track less than 10 minutes! From Frank [...]

Or maybe not

I signed up to bring bread to the band dinner. Sunday night I fed the sourdough starter. Monday it was not looking especially lively, though not dead either. Monday night I made up bread dough with the starter and some yeast…
And it didn’t rise.
Tuesday morning I stopped in at Columbus Bakery and bought two loaves [...]

Not with a fff

Monday evening Kenny kept saying Tuesday would be a snow day, and I kept telling him I didn’t think so. Tuesday I got up and found out it was a snow day. We got 8.4 inches, or rather, the airport, where Syracuse’s snowfall is measured, did. Then again, the airport got 5 inches Saturday and [...]