weeknote #23.8
Mad Jakale, Kamizdat work, fasting, Focusmate, commercial audio mix for video, Ardour and yabridge
Sunday, 15. oktober, 2023 - week 42 of 2023 (Y23W42).
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Weekend was busy with rehearsals on both saturday and sunday. We did a lot. It was good to see what progress have we done in this phase of the project. Things are slowly getting clearer and coming together. Wrote relatively lot of new music.
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Some organisational hurdles for the upcoming Kamizdat concert event were succesfully overcome, we finally found the venue (very late, but not too) at good friends at Pritličje, and finalization of the USB booklet is in progress.
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At the end of this week, sunday, I'm on day 5 of my fast. I was thinking to do it for some time, then I just started it.
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Used Focusmate for couple of days again, under the pressure of incoming deadlines, and it's always a good thing (never a bad one). I just often struggle to commit to it. Also, when tasks and work is well managed and there's focus and progress, there's feeling of confidence and safety. The feeling is that things are ok, things are moving forward, they are not completely out of control. Success at being focused means I can hope on reliance on my own plans, on myself. This is huge for me.
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I have finally submitted an application to prolong state's tax support for cultural workers. This took me way too long and I hope the ministry will processes it in time.
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I finished a little (half)-comercial work for Rusaalka - audio mix for video/film. I managed to fix yabridge and DeVerberator VST for Windows works again in Ardour. I also discovered some strength in LSP plugins although they can be pushed too far very quickly. I think the trick is in scale on the rotary knobs of most parameters is much too big, so you quickly distort the signal.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially power struggles,
And most are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together.
∞ = Δ
–Earthseed, The Book of The Living ↗
