I finally! completed a project I started off on about twelve years or so ago. Not that I spent twelve years on it, it just took me that long to get around to finishing it. “It” being a homemade PVC contrabass clarinet. There’s a long verbose video about it here, and just a quick demo … More PVC contrabass chalumeau
Q. What’s the definition of a nerd? A. Someone who owns his own alto clarinet. Alto clarinets get no respect. When I was in the sixth grade, having taken clarinet lessons for about a year and a half, I was assigned to play our school’s new bass clarinet, and I liked it a lot despite … More Instruments for nerds
Happy July; 30 Days of Creativity is over. I said, The plan is to focus on just two bigger projects this month, all month. One will be a fairly ambitious piece of music — a composition for (synthesized) Bohlen-Pierce clarinet choir. In fact I rather doubt I’ll finish it this month, if it ends up being … More 30DoC2012
I stopped going to LaFayette Concert Band rehearsals when Heather started working Tuesday nights. She no longer does, but I haven’t gone back. Between the dojo and Kenny’s piano lessons I’m out three evenings a week plus Saturday late morning / early afternoon, and that’s enough for right now. (For similar reasons I still am … More Cross-sizing
Don’t know why, but I’ve had an urge lately to get the bass clarinet out and honk on it a bit, and today I did. Despite all I said over a year ago — I think I’m much more inclined to grab the bass than the soprano to play just for fun. Not that I … More Basser instincts
Have I ever gotten around to mentioning the awesomeness of this and this?
For the dojo we’re supposed to come up with a list of ten goals for 2009 — not exclusively martial arts goals, but goals of any and all kinds. I view these as not quite the same as resolutions, or rather as a particular type of resolution. These are not things we’re going to try … More Hereby resolve
Gaah, it seems like I just did one of these. And this one’s going to be pretty much a rerun of the last. No new clarinet activity this month. No new knitting this month. I did buy a skein of yarn, because it’s evident the little tiny project I started last, what, June? is going … More Resolution review (November 2008)
Knitting: I suck. [One problem is, I can’t read and knit at the same time, and I’m engrossed in reading these days — I’ve reread Brust’s Khaavren Romances, and now I’m rereading what someone dubbed the Vladiad. Usually when I reread a series I go through it in internal chronological order, but this time for … More Resolution review (Oct 2008)
I got to a concert this month, didn’t I? I think so, one. Would’ve been two if it weren’t for the pancreas thing. I don’t know of any more concerts scheduled this year — in years past the band’s done a concert in December, but this year it was moved to August. Anyway, my plan … More Resolution Review (September 08)
Doctroidal dissertations 