I call this my journal, so I guess it’s about time In treat it like one. You know, all the mundane stuff that I do during the day, what I eat, etc. I suppose if I could shut up at 140 characters, it would be good for a twitter, but I still haven’t bought in to the twitter thing yet.

Yesterday was unbelievably cold, foggy, and dreary for June in New Jersey. After work I took Dylan to soccer practice – it seemed like he was playing on the Scottish moors or something. Miserable.

Jason mentions he is interested in getting back into field recording. We have been discussing equipment – there are a lot of interesting new option this year for recording equipment. We’ve come a long way from the mini disc days of the late 90s.

This makes me think of my own musical endeavors. I am trying to get some momentum back after a few years of musical hiatus. I need to push through the untitled piano pieces, and eventually clean them up for performance. I recently started playing parts of them on guitar – I would like to write a guitar arrangement for them as well at some point. Then there are all the sound files I have, and the cleanup work on all my previous works I’d like to do. Plus learn Pro Tools.

Speaking of Pro Tools, although I love the program and the hardware, I have started to become a little uneasy with it the more I get interested in open source software. I have recently been reading a little bit of Eric S. Raymond, and getting involved in the open source Lilypond project (just by subscribing to the mailing list, but it’s a start. I am tossing around some ideas on how to incorporate the open source ideas into my music. I am still on the fence as to whether I will release my music on a creative commons license, but “releasing” music is something I still have to put a lot of thought into.