No Sleep = Work Gets Done

I ran into some of you today, and some of you last nite, but for me it's been the same day. I didn't end up sleeping last night after Nightlife, as I had a presentation due the next day and everything I had ready to go didn't seem good enough. So I put one of my ideas into the computer, recording various sounds from my keyboard and had it to a point where I was like, this is okay, but then I realised that it just wasn't right. I wanted it to be better.

So I got on my bicycle at 1am in the morning and rode to QUT. Therein I went to the studio where a security guard was nice enough to let me in even without a booking, and I had 5 hours to record real piano, drums and timpani (tympani?) for my piece.

I didnt' get time to do vocals, but vocals never sound great after you've been awake for more than a day.

Without further ado, I present the half finished, half as long as I'd like to be version of 'To Earthward'. The drums are semi-okay, I think I need to go back and mic the snare closer and get rid of some of the room mic, and the structure of the piece lends itself to a much longer piece. The lyrics haven't been recorded yet, but when the song's done I'll be in touch with you guys.

Luke's Purevolume Site

P.S. for those who were wondering, the time signature's a rolling 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 6/8 pattern. If you add those numbers up it's pretty simple, with each verse being the equivalent of four bars of 6/8.

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The Flip Side

Here's an interesting link I stumbled across in the big bad web, it contains a very small amount of swearing but some interesting viewpoints:

16 Common myths about atheists

What does everyone think?

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Proposed Changes

I propose that I delete the links to 'Solve this trolley mystery' and Ryan's blog - Ryan's a dead link and Wentworth hasn't updated in like... 10 months. That's beyond the reach of even the update song.

Any objections?

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Brain is AWOL

I'm so tired and my knee is buggered.

Tired from mens camp from such things as running, jumping and woodchopping. My knee does this from time to time, a tendon or something gets out of place and hurts like anything for a little while. Should be okay by wednesday. I hope it's okay... otherwise I'll become unfit again :)

Cool video of something I'd like to be able to do one day, that is, parkour (just look in wikipedia if you want to know what it is, it'll be ages before I can do half the stuff this guy can do) - :



Um... Is that enough tidbits for today?

Maybe not. Um, a couple of really cool guys at uni today were just telling me all about their new studio... man it sounds awesome. Each of them took out a $10k loan, and they've got a heap of really awesome gear. 4 screens of pure recording beauty. Anyway, it might just be beautiful to me. Makes me really anxious to get my own little one. A laptop, that is.

Oh and also, on the weekend I became a godfather :) It feels, honouring, and a bit exciting. I mean, I'm gonna have an input in Elijah John Nichols-Tansen's life... Yeah, some of you might find that scary, but I reckon it'll be cool.

Anyway, hope things are fine and dandy for everyone.

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