Music. Photography. Thoughts.
My microphone cable broke, so I couldn’t use it for my latest collab when playing the upright with a bow. So I ordered new ones, and now the show can go on…
I used Silver Efex with a Fujifilm Acros 100 black & white film simulation for this one, plus a border. As always, thanks for viewing.
I’m using my Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd generation audio interface under Linux since years, it was and is USB class compliant, so no worries there.
In case you want to know how to set up a newer 3rd generation interface, look at Unfa’s video review of the Scarlett 2i2 3rd gen:
And on LinuxMusicians, Geoffrey Bennett just announced his new control panel gui for these interfaces, see also his github pages.
Cool stuff. I’m using his drivers already, but the gui needs gtk4 and a kernel 5.14 or newer, so this should work on my Arch but not yet on my Debian partition. Doesn’t matter since I can also change the interface settings using qasmixer, even if that isn’t as nice as his one.
Cool stuff! Thanks Geoffrey and Unfa and the kernel team and everyone 🙂 Did I say that free software rocks?
Here’s Frode Berg explaining and demonstrating why that matters, especially but not only for us double (or upright) bass players:
Thanks Frode for the explanations…
Collaboration with Lucy Bee from Wikiloops:
Thanks Lucy for the wonderful jam, and thanks to you for listening.
Sold, a few minutes ago: our trusty old Corolla which served us really well for about 13 years. It was 7 years old when we bought it, so the real age is almost 20. Still runs like a charm, and purrs like a kitten:
So farewell “Castle” – I’ll miss you…
Oh, and meet “Castle”‘s younger cousin “Yuki”, which is about 15 years younger than its slightly bigger predecessor. This photo is from last Friday in Groß-Gerau:
As always, thanks for viewing.
Today it’s exactly a year since “our” Tuna died. And of course we had to visit her grave. I took my camera, and even a 2nd battery just in case – but forgot the SD card which was still in my computer at home from this morning.
So here are two snapshots from the phone instead:
We still miss her each day, so thanks for viewing.
out of camera b&w picture, taken with my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 and the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 lens:
As always, thanks for viewing.
While watching the birds outside, this is what I was listening to today:
Eve Goodman – Dacw ‘Nghariad [Welsh folk song]
The oldest Welsh Lullaby: Dinogad’s Smock (Pais Dinogad)
Ceol, a celebration of Gaelic & Welsh music
Enjoy…
The sun is going is already down, and I just read on Michael Johnston’s blog that Peter Turnley is now in Ukraine. Be sure to follow the links to Instagram and Facebook to see more; Peter is one of the living photographers I really like. These photos look like those from old times, but they are all from now…
See the article about it in ArsTechnica and elsewhere – Golem for instance, in case you want to read about it in German. And then update your kernels, please. I cannot speak for all distros, but both Debian and Arch provide kernels which aren’t vulnerable against ‘DirtyPipe’. So don’t get bitten by this please.
Thank you.