The main things that have happened over the last weeks have been getting my time table or 'agenda', as they're called over here. I've got quite a lot of old-school theory lessons to be going to, which start next week and I'm pretty stoked about it all, been doing quite a bit of composing and completely unnecessary things like staying up until 3am creating a dance track solely out of samples from the 1990s britpop band Sleeper...
Also went to Amsterdam at the weekend for the Gaudeamus Music Festival, which is basically a festival for new composers and new music. Went to a 192 speaker 'wave-field synthesis' performance of electronic music and saw a 'night of the unexpected', which was a similar thing to the one that occured at last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Ceephax was playing there and did an absolutely fantastic set of old-school acid house on a table full of synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines.
Anyway, there is more to say, but I shall leave you waiting for the next podcast installment.
dp
P.S. Everytime I hear something about the American election I can't help but be reminded of the tagline from this film:
[apologies for the link to the poster going down.]
4 comments:
what film? Harold and Kumar in Guantanamo Bay?
looking forward to the next installment dave, nothing good has happened in Britain for a while, we'll all go back to Yorkshire next week i guess
Hi Dave,
I'm also looking forward to the next installment, and i know Katy was listening to the first one last night as well!
I think i'm going to do a blog from Bitche, just trying to think of a title... Your blog made me think of our Eurotrip one, and i read all of that again too.
Glad to hear you are settling in! In two weeks i'll be a bit closer to you!
george: You should definitely do a blog, but surely the title's obvious:
Bitchein' (or perhaps Bitche-in' (because you're in bitche!))
Yeah i know, i've thought of many possible titles involving 'Bitche', just haven't picked one yet...
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