I’m outta here for a week or two – Paris, Saarbrucken – maybe a little Champagne!

Lots of exciting things happening on my return – new music, new web design, new membership – the works.

This is a rough two string mix haven’t edited them or added the third – should be a groovy piece when it’s done.

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p.s. – for all you burglars out there – we have three vicious animals and a dog sitter at home – so no – you can’t rob us while we’re away!

DrasticJo is the nom de plume of a certain Jody Schneider that we’re working with over at Kilted Chaos – she’s a singer songwriter with a killer second talent as a graphic artist (that’s her artwork over there on the right)- you can check out her sounds and images at the DrasticJo website.

I’ve been playing with one of her tracks for the last month and have been looking to develop a piece that can accompany her recent acoustic version of Fade and I’m beginning to get somewhere:

I think I’ll continue to work this up throughout the week and see where we get to – it would be nice to have it finished and up on Jo’s site before I disappear off to Paris! Heh, heh, heh

One of the nice things about coming out to see Charlotte is that she has a load of old music2work2 that I haven’t listened to for ages; tracks that were being developed that never got finished, me experimenting with different voices etc, etc.

I had reminded myself this evening that I wanted to record the noise of the cicadas from the back porch – they are so loud and such a part of the environment that I reckoned they would work nicely as an additional voice in a music2work2 piece.

So – I fired up Audioboo to record the cicadas and just as I started to record – the Dorothy theme came on the stereo – it is a theme I wrote for Wendi’s grandmother who passed away a few years back; it has parts for piano, strings, bass and guitar – and while the execution isn’t great – I love the idea.

So – I ended up recording the track and book-ending it with cicadas…

Think I’ll be re-visiting this one when I get back to LA

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I managed to catch the tail end of the Driver’s safety speech on the Van Nuys Flyaway – they must have sent their staff to comedy school ‘cos he was hysterical – the lady driver on the way back was funny too!

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