Clearing out miscellaneous electrical bits and pieces the other day, I made some phone adapter art
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Just shy of 1kg tomatoes this afternoon, with the big one being just under 500g. Total harvest to date: 1.57kg
Super simple pasta for lunch today
Cook smoky lardons in air fryer with a dash of olive oil (not in the basket as we want the juices for flavour). Add precooked pasta from fridge. Warm through. Snip in as much rocket as you like. Throw on grated grana padano cheese (or whatever you have).
Not very healthy perhaps, though precooked, cooled and reheated pasta is allegedly better for you than freshly cooked. Quantities are random according to your taste, so no need to measure anything!
Fixed it... Stress levels returning to a more manageable level. #Autism #OrdnungMussSein
I wonder if anyone else finds this annoying... I mean REALLY ANNOYING. So annoying that you can't get any peace until it has been fixed. Such inconsistency in the file naming! I also want to find the person responsible and let them know... đ #Autism #OrdnungMussSein
Am listening to the most "ear-boggling" feat of musicianship. Alkan's "Concerto for Solo Piano" has been described as "the most cruelly taxing piano work before the time of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and Ferruccio Busoni." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto_for_Solo_Piano_(Alkan)
Marc-André Hamelin's performance has to be heard to be believed. The piece makes numerous impossible demands, such as "trills executed by the fourth and fifth fingers with the melody played on the same hand" No problem whatsoever. MADNESS!
One of my favourite stories is from the history of the Nobel Prize concerning two medals which were dissolved in aqua regia for the duration of WW2 to hide them and protect the recipients from the Nazis.
George de Hevesy: âWhile the invading forces marched in the streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving Laueâs and also James Franckâs medals. After the war, the gold was recovered and the Nobel Foundation generously presented Laue and Frank with new Nobel medals.â
Well, this is rather delicious. I wasn't that familiar with the Latvian composer Äriks EĆĄenvalds until I sampled this recording on Hyperion.
Unfortunately I don't think Hyperion releases are generally available on the streaming sites, but you can sample it on hyperion, amazon, or presto music:
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68083
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Esenvalds-Northern-Cambridge-HYPERION-CDA68083/dp/B00QKYTT1Q/
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8052607--riks-esenvalds-northern-lights
EĆĄenvalds: Northern Lights & other choral works
<p>The intensely practical choral music of the young Latvian composer Äriks EĆĄenvalds is steadily gaining appreciation across the world. The works on this new album owe their genesis to commissions from the United States, England and northern Europe and encompass ethereal expressions of uniquely arctic phenomena (listen for wine glasses turnedâand tunedâto wondrously simple but devastating effect within the choral texture), American ballads and several works in the âAnglican traditionâ, the fruits of the composerâs recent residency at Trinity College Cambridge.</p> <p>Trinity College Choir Cambridge here returns the compliment, as it were, with superlative performances of these varied and engaging works, all recorded under the watchful eye of the composer and conductor Stephen Layton.</p>
I randomly discovered the formidable music of Barbara Thompson in 2022, the year she died of Parksinson's aged 77. If you like jazz and don't already know this, it's something that you have to hear. Wild and wonderfully weird! A complete delight!
I need to discover more so please give me Barbara Thompson recommendations.
Perpetual Motion on spotify and tidal:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1ydYEJahdWzj2ZoSM1s4gz
https://tidal.com/browse/album/53996753
Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Thompson_(musician)
Guardian obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jul/28/barbara-thompson-obituary
At home on New Year's Eve with Régine and Maurice. This version of Ravel's Schéhérezade is one of my favourite recordings of all time