steering veering

After a delay, back to the blog. Those who know me, know my Dad was pretty ill - viral meningitis and encephalitis, a broken hip for good measure, and he was lost for a while.

And this weekend, as we all sat in the Bay Area heat, eating Italian food, enjoying ice cream and coffee into the evening, you couldn't help but notice that this is quite a return.

From 10 weeks on his back in a hospital, and then a nursing home, he's now been back at home for 2 months.

And running on all cylinders. Not bad.

So where was I?

Radiohead Nude Remix? Just listened to where I left off 3 months ago. It's still there. Good ideas, far from complete...

My focus is elsewhere. Watching the flutter in and out of consciousness and of reason has got me thinking about new angles.

I've been listening, sampling, and chopping up old jazz piano recordings I recorded of my dad, which in turn has got me listening, sampling, and chopping up old recordings in general. And now, I start to feed them all into the machine.

Here's tonight.

steering veering

Raw. An off the cuff line that warbled on an old Tascam 388 (annoyed me at the time, but I love it now), my Monitor 10 shortwave captured in the Cascades and a loop my friend Geoff made.