flaviomatani (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
flaviomatani) wrote2023-01-22 01:27 pm
flaviomatani) wrote2023-01-22 01:27 pm
Entry tags:
State of the Flav, 22-01-23
Flu finally going away (I hope -cough!)
Teaching in both schools resumed. The one in Islington (not to narrow it down too much) still a nightmare but hey, it is income and work. The other school involves getting up in the dark and a long drive. The world, alas, is not perfect.
Realising I haven't played in public for .. years now. I always found it difficult to 'sell the product', as it were, and it hasn't become any easier as I've got older. But I need to do that -not for any other reason, perhaps, so much as to keep myself able to prepare and perform a programme more or less of the level I feel I should maintain.
Waiting for several incoming money-blows to hit. An unexpectedly large tax bill, a large service charge bill where I live, a hidden threat of a very large one that I thought had been resolved but apparently may not have been. Plus the incoming rises in energy bills and, therefore, in everything else.
In relation to the playing in public, it also has resulted in me not really preparing a full concert programme. I can always play, but perhaps not things that I might find challenging or interesting in that sense.
Dabbled for a bit with AI text-to-image platforms like Stable Diffusion, etc. It is a whole lot of fun although I can see the issues around this sort of thing -I don't think they may replace artists and painters any time soon but many may lose work to these things.
Bibliogoth today with 'Legends and Lattes' by Travis Baldree. I hated the title, came to the book with a lot of anti-hipster prejudice but it was a good reading, light and fun.
Here, have a little bit of me playing an excerpt of 'Usher Waltz' by Nikita Koshkin. If you get a chance.
Teaching in both schools resumed. The one in Islington (not to narrow it down too much) still a nightmare but hey, it is income and work. The other school involves getting up in the dark and a long drive. The world, alas, is not perfect.
Realising I haven't played in public for .. years now. I always found it difficult to 'sell the product', as it were, and it hasn't become any easier as I've got older. But I need to do that -not for any other reason, perhaps, so much as to keep myself able to prepare and perform a programme more or less of the level I feel I should maintain.
Waiting for several incoming money-blows to hit. An unexpectedly large tax bill, a large service charge bill where I live, a hidden threat of a very large one that I thought had been resolved but apparently may not have been. Plus the incoming rises in energy bills and, therefore, in everything else.
In relation to the playing in public, it also has resulted in me not really preparing a full concert programme. I can always play, but perhaps not things that I might find challenging or interesting in that sense.
Dabbled for a bit with AI text-to-image platforms like Stable Diffusion, etc. It is a whole lot of fun although I can see the issues around this sort of thing -I don't think they may replace artists and painters any time soon but many may lose work to these things.
Bibliogoth today with 'Legends and Lattes' by Travis Baldree. I hated the title, came to the book with a lot of anti-hipster prejudice but it was a good reading, light and fun.
Here, have a little bit of me playing an excerpt of 'Usher Waltz' by Nikita Koshkin. If you get a chance.