After a few days of mucking around with gear I have finally managed to get some music stuff plugged in again. I'm trying to get it so I can just sit down, switch everything on and make something. No installing anything, no looking for ideas, no mental or actual editing. Just switch on and press record. I think I'm getting there by having a bunch of stuff I can improvise with at one end of a 3.5mm cable - an aux cable, as the young people call it. And then I just plug it into something and make some sounds. In the case above I plugged it into four Music Thing Radio Musics. It starts off a bit messy but there are some good bits.
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This week - Accumulator
Most weeks I run a little accumulator in my head - will all 'our teams' win? I'm can't remember the last time it happened. I look forward to international breaks because Arsenal, Liverpool and Forest don't play and the chances of 100% victory go up.
The remaining teams are Dulwich Hamlet (our London non-league favourites) and Holbrook (East Midland non-leaguers). Sadly, this weekend, Dulwich went a man down and then a goal down to the visitors from Oxford City and Holbrook lost 1-2 to Hilton Harriers. I went to watch them this Saturday, it was sunny and cold and the team looked completely different to last season. They seemed useful last season, did pretty well in the East Midlands Counties League but at the end of the season they took voluntary relegation to the Central Midlands League South.
I think it's because (if I read between the lines of the programme correctly) they couldn't get enough club officials to do the necessary stuff at home games. The committee was fairly long serving, they probably needed to get on with their lives. But a new committee is coming together and new club facilities are getting built. I love this stuff about non-league football. The big society is ploughing on like it always did.
This Week - Chinese Electronics
I'm in a busy busy work phase which is very satisfying. It's made me more determined to enjoy the things I'm doing when I'm not working. To read and listen harder when doing leisure - not just to have things wash over me but to suck the value out of them.
To that end I'm enormously grateful to whoever recommended Chinese Electronics Volume One (I think it was Alex). It's fantastic.
Similarly: the Murderbot books.
They have both kept me hugely entertained on the tube.
I even found time to do a 1r3c. This time playing along with some Music Thing Modular Radio Musics. It's not the best, but it's a horse I've gotten back on.