Here are some images from yesterday’s concert which was really nice:
Mitchie made videos as usual, and I have some more images in my music album on Flickr in case you’re interested.
A wonderful evening. Thanks for viewing, and for reading.
Weihnachtskonzert
Anyone around the area of Groß-Gerau next week? There will be a free concert where Zuleikha also will play with her high school big band:
Very much looking forward to that, the last one was great fun 🙂 So if you can make it, just drop by.
As always, thanks for reading.
Find You
I had an old track of Oliv, Shi, and Wade in my watchlist in Wikiloops since quite a while. And I was busy doing other things, but yesterday and today I could play around with that track a bit. And after trying a few very different things I decided that once more it was best to keep it simple, and to let my bass just support these wonderful musicians a bit. So here is the result:
The list of musicians (so far, it was downloaded already):
So thanks to my friends and fellow musicians in the ‘loops, and thanks to you for listening.
DW – Meet the Germans
If you’ve never been to Germany or are just trying to understand us “Krauts” a bit better, our public radio station Deutsche Welle has some funny videos about it – called “Meet the Germans”. Here’s the first of several I/we saw (and liked):
Found on the DW News Youtube channel. Enjoy.
Sunday pre tea time
Uploaded a short bass-only track to the ‘loops:
The same is available without the clicks as a HD track. Harmonies are on Wikiloops (click the track id to go there). As always, thanks for listening.
How much CPU power do I need?
I was reading the latest c’t magazine and also just watched an hour long video talk they had about the finest article in it. The topic: once a year they publish suggestions of ideal machines to build for yourself, with low power consumption, which are quiet, run smoothly, give you the best bang for the buck, and so on.
I find these very useful, and all of my self-built PCs – some of which are distributed to the wider family by now – were always at least based upon their suggestions.
While discussing PCs with my brother (his doesn’t start anymore at the moment, after years of service (it also was a very good one)) and after reading that latest article with a remark that multitrack music productions would love to have many CPU cores I decided to check my own one. So I’ve made a short video about it:
The music I’ve used for that demonstration & check was my latest collab with Arno from Wikiloops. Merci Arno for your wonderful track!
And yes, for what I’m doing, an old 4th generation Intel Core i5 is more than enough as you can see. So a nice actual 9th generation one is the one I’d take for any new build, these integrated graphics are more important to me than any assumed or measurable advantage of AMD chips…
Thanks for watching, and for reading – as always.
She forgets when she dances
There was that lovely folk song from Wikiloops member “Arnosolo” which I downloaded a while ago. And first I worked on noise reduction of the track a bit, made a video about that, and messaged Arno. He allowed me to show that video (and contributed another and maybe even better one) – but before I did that I sat down and played on his track a bit, and uploaded that to the ‘loops. So here’s his lovely song, with me noodling (improvising) on it:
Oh, and the videos and the forum article about adaptive noise reduction are here, in case you’re interested.
As always, thanks for reading, and for listening. And if you’re a musician yourself, then please consider joining us at Wikiloops – it’s free, and it’s fun! 🙂
Mixed tape by Bothen
One of the tracks/jams in Wikiloops on which I played last year was included in another album today, this time one of a drummer again:
Mixed tape by Bothen, on Wikiloops
I had uploaded my bass to the track at about the same time as Bothen did with his drums, so I offered to mix them together – and that gave an interesting 3/4 from me, with a 4/4 played over it by him (Arno’s template had this polyrhythm feeling anyway).
I also made a video of this track in my DAW, together with the settings for my bass, so in case you’re interested, it’s here:
My own version got some remixes by others as well, so here’s the version from my own album:
As always, thanks for reading, viewing, and/or listening 🙂 And thanks again to Bothen for including me on your wonderful album – I feel very honoured! 🙂
Self portrait with bass
Olympus cameras have a cool feature which is WiFi – so you can not only put photos taken with your camera to your smartphone for fast distribution, you can also use that smartphone as a remote control (and display) for your camera. Which means that you can get shots without seeing through the viewfinder or on the rear display, and without being able to reach the shutter. Cool; this opens all sorts of possibilities (like for wildlife/birds for instance).
I just used that feature a few minutes ago to take a ‘selfie’ 😉
Cropped it to a 3:2 aspect ratio, and adjusted the curves just a bit. It’s not 100% sharp because I was only lit by my monitor, had the camera on f/4 at ISO200, so the resulting exposure time was 2 seconds…
You see me with my bass in front of my computer, and with Puccini’s ‘O mio babbino caro’ on the sheet in front of me. And yes, I’m learning to play that, so it’s no fake.
As always, thanks for viewing, and for reading.
Those dreamy, funky new strings
Just me alone, noodling around on my bass with fresh strings:
Let’s see if someone likes this enough to play (or sing?) on it 🙂 As always, thanks for listening 🙂