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Sunday, 8 May 2005

The chair and the bench ::

I’ve stayed home from work to await the arrival of the flight case for my piano. The 220/110v transformer is here. I’ve made trips to Sears to buy a flashlight, bathroom scale and tape measure. I’ve twisted myself into contortions, made my eyes swim, and covered my clothes in dust crawling around in dark corners to record 30 serial numbers. I’ve measured and weighed the flight case and the piano. I’ve written a little AppleScript to set my iChat status to the time remaining before I leave for Sweden to record (31 days, 10 hours and ticking down). I’ve installed the latest version of the MachFive sampler; Logic 7.1 and all my plug-ins now work fine on Tiger, so there is no longer an excuse not to work on a piece that uses MachFive. I even got as far as muting everything except a click track during the region to be replaced and recording a new sketch with several tracks. Now to buckle down and finish it.

I’ve had 3-sided work areas for many years now: keyboards in the center, computer desk on the right, rack gear on the left. There’s a chair in front of the computer desk, and a keyboard bench (higher and no arms) in front of the keyboards. There’s not quite enough room for them both, so they get moved around.

I suddenly remembered how simple it can be to shift gears away from the computer and focus on composing/recording. Move away the chair. Never pile junk on the bench. Put the bench in the middle. Now it’s less than completely comfortable to do anything on the computer. But it’s very comfortable to play.

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