Crispycat Recordings: Computers suck your life away...

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Computers suck your life away...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - New Pieces
Laura Pausini - Singles

Up around 6 again and to the desk for more early morning creation - two shorter tracks today, clocking in at "just" 24 and 30 minutes...

Out with Anne for breakfast at The Bakehouse over on Broughton St...

...then, into John Lewis for some furniture shopping...

We've had the two dark red Chesterfields in our living room for 25 years so we're thinking it might finally be time for a change...

We're scaling down a little - which might stop us from lounging around in the evenings and sitting up straight a little more...

Home, a deal done, and prep for nephew Andy popping by this afternoon for our first work on Capital Models' covers sets for then end of the year...

Of course this was going to be my first attempt at using the new laptop to record anything externally - all my recent work has been internal work...

When I set it up, I was dismayed - it sounded dreadful, kept cutting out and what did make it onto the hard drive sounded like it had been recorded in a tunnel...

So nothing was recorded but we decanted to the back room and Andy played along to a CD, using his midi-keyboard and "reason" programme, accompanying me, Jamie and Keith from last December...

A successful start...

After packing up, we did much mucking about on the laptop, resulting in a cure being found - the notes said something along the lines of "if it keeps cutting out and sounds like it was recorded in a tunnel..."

A couple of boxes unchecked and it was sorted...

In all, probably around two and a half hours all told to get to that simple solution though...

Computers suck your life away...

Round to Anne's mum's for tea - and another "Dr Who" night arranged for this Saturday with nephew Olly...

Post some excellent steak pie and assorted veg, followed by a chocolatey cake thing with ice cream and strawberries at a crowded tea table - attendees Mary, Anne, me, Keith, Maureen and Abby, Jane, Bobby, Olly and Kitty (and Rafa the dog), nephew Craig and girlfriend Arianne - it was back home for more work...

A film created of some of my recent abstract work soundtracked by the shortest track created thus far...

Some footy highlights and off to bed...

A productive weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Andy's keyboard playing...

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