viLOLin update

So, when I got this viLOLin, I was playing with it and the bow seemed to be acting a little weird even beyond my complete lack of knowledge, and the internets seemed to be saying that the bow was both over- and under-rosined. I talked with kathrynt about it, and she said that can happen when a bow isn't used for a long time then it can get into a state where it needs really tiny rosin crystals to work between the scales of the air to replace lost oils, and to get that, you just have to play it a while.

Anyway, in the last couple of days it's started acting like I'd expect a bow to act, particularly so this morning, and it's not shedding rosin inappropriately on strings anymore, and it's generally just kind of behaving. So that's nice.

My playing skill is still negligible, of course. Tho' I have started playing around with a piece that's kinda derived from one of my flute pieces, and that's kind of fun.

Not having regular performance venues is kind of annoying/frustrating. But I've done some listening to myself in recordings and I think I've done my vocals some good. Not enough good yet, but some.

random computer hardware, anyone?

Anybody want a bunch of, oh, 10 year old computer cards? I have an assortment of network cards, (Linksys, 3com, DEC (wtf), HP (also wtc)) and an ATI Video Rage television interface/video card. They're all PCI slot.

I don't know whether they work, but they probably do. They were in the basement at murkworks south for a while, in anti-static bags, on a shelf.

oh dear

...I appear to have been using the other folders on my little PVR for music ideas too.

I thought I had like two or three untranscribed song ideas on this frob, and that everything else was performance recordings and notes from Anna's jamming group and stuff I'd already transcribed and such. Turns out... not so much. More like, um, 25-ish tracks need transcription. (I did two tonight.) There's nine or 10 flute song ideas left, one bit of sample-driven techno/electronica I forgot about, a bunch of mandolin things I'd likewise completely forgotten, and some synth/dance idea that's kind of like Stars and kind of completely different, on keyboards.

This sounds awesome and kind of is, but it just took me two hours to transcribe two minutes of flute music idea because of how much I suck at transcription. I guess it's time to get better at that now.