weeknote #24.01"

NYD24 stream, Mad Jakale documentation, Covid, kidney

Sunday, 07. january, 2023 - week 01 of 2024 (Y24W01).

• Despite getting quite ill on the New Years Eve I did the stream on the next day, New Years Day 24 Parade for the great Radio Free Fedi initiative. I improvised a granular Ndef, together with some code I wrote for Algoforte this year. Aften one hour I transitioned into Kamizdat "showcase", mostly tracks from our releases in 2023. It was fun, a good bunch of listeners in the chat, they all came to our live owncast address - live.pretok.tv. I recorded it and put it online on our peertube site at vid.pretok.tv. It was also interesting because my apps - SuperCollider, Renoise and Mixxx were mixed through JACK, then routed to PulseAudio and output into bluetooth speakers. I so much want to perform more.

• I finished the #YearInReview for 2023. It's a long one and it helped me realise and see a lot of work has been done this year too! It's a good opportunity to celebrate your wins, to look at your work and life critically but also to acknowledge skillfulness and success.

• I finished video documentation for Mad Jakale, version 1. We took a look and were sharing enthusiasm about the whole show. We felt so much was done really well, and we noticed few little quirks that need fixing. At the end we decided to do another video recording at the upcoming rerun in few weeks with isolated voice recordings and some fixes in costumography.

• Physical health has been really on test for the past few weeks. In fact I got sick a day before the premiere first. Did premiere with fever and feeling pretty shitty. I got better then, but on the NY eve got COVID. Less then a week after I also got something going on with the kidney, something looking (and feeling!) like kidney stones but will found out more in the coming days form the doctor.