Today has been a very gentle roller-coaster of problems and satisfactions. Very gentle, no real life tragedies, just a bunch of computer shit trying my patience, which from time to time is the payment for maintaining a, how can I put it, …. excessive, network of computers in my home and workplace. Compounded with the fact that I live in a small village at the very end of the internet and I have to deal with France Telecom, who redefine the meaning of the word service. Actually, as an aside, I should point out that the word service doesn’t actually translate into french as anyone who has ever tried to order a big mac in the middle of the afternoon will attest. I could go into this, in detail, this total lack of customer care, as I have much experience in being a consumer in this fine country, but I won’t, because it’s also quite pointless. Oh, how I yearn for a ‘have a nice day’ or ‘your welcome’.. It cost’s nothing, of course it means nothing, but is ever so much more pleasant that what I am confronted with on a daily basis.
Which gets me back to France Telecom, the fuckers, who have redefined the term 8mb to mean 2mb, but have managed to charge me five euros a month more for the privilege.
what ever….
So satisfaction…. mmm, did another mix for Continental today, a lovely instrumental piece called Radiance. The mixing process was plagued, as usual, by little gremlins, little tech problems, but they seem a small price to pay for ending up with a lovely piece like Radiance.
I’m enjoying the process of randomly picking a piece of music that I have created earlier in the year, whether from 19 Crescent, or something else I’ve had tucked away for a while, and actually finishing it.. It’s good to finish.
Also, not being a slacker, and realising that rendering video takes a long time, I’ve started editing more material, possibly for an extended version of lumiere which I’d like to perform this winter…
OK, so that was my day .. bedtime
Hey Robin,
In my home studio I use a Tascam DM24, MOTU 2048, and P4 based computer. I started getting random clicks and pops while mixing from Sonar to Cool edit. I checked wordclock, connections, etc. to no avail. Then while mixing the other night the power supply in the PC died. Looks like the problem was a capacitor and/or a switching transistor that was starting to short in the power supply.(I’m a computer tech by the way.) Thank God I back up my band’s files as I’ve lost hard drives before when power supplies have died.
Jeff
Hi Robin 19 Cresent is a homeless shelter…I always fantasized about making music in a home studio setting a la the best of them but tossing little fuckers out on the ‘net…not waiting to be paid as slave. Curve can sell online only.
Hi Robin,
I just wanted to thanks for such a beautiful soundtrack to “Mysterious Skin” I can’t eject it from the cd player, or shall i say, I don’t want to. “Snowfall” is just soooooo gorgeous and my favourite track.
You have inspired me all the way through my teens and now in my 39th year I am still writing Ambient Dream stuff in my “Little Nova Sound” Studio which used to live in Bristol but now Lancaster. I am one of your biggest fans, always will be. God Bless John peel! and thanks again.
Gerry