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Thursday, 5 January 2006
New Years ::
On New Year’s Eve I got a head start on my resolution to spend more time making music, with an aim to performing live. There’s a mental block around working with the songs from my album. Maybe it’s that all the tracks are in Digital Performer and I’m not sure yet whether I want to use it or Logic to play backing tracks. So I postponed that ball of wax and started working on someone else’s piece, David Borden’s Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part 9. Beyond being one of my favorite pieces ever, it will always have some special symbolism for me about performing. (I performed it with Mother Mallard in Ithaca in 1998 and 1999, Washington in 2000, and with my own group in Santa Cruz in 2003). ...