Hughie's PhD

Not Smart enough ...

I've officially missed out on the Premier's Growing the Smart State awards. Just got a letter expressing the usual regret at my failure (or is it regret at having to tell me?). So, after all that effort, no extra funding...

Double frustration!!

Got two bits of bad news in a day. On Thursday my application for funding was knocked back and on the same day the Future of Music Coalition newsletter came out without mentioning me at all. I e-mailed Chhaya to...

Comparison of digital distributors

Just found this comparison via a roundabout way. It's a table of the costs, processes and other aspects of some digital distribution companies that I knew nothing about. In fact, I knew nothing about some of these companies! But that's...

Done with funding ...

Right!! The damn ACID/iCi application has been lodged. I drove to QUT, walked into the Music chool and collected it, walked to the library and copied it (twice) and then walked up the hill and handed it to the receptionist...

Moving along

Several things to report, since I haven't blogged for a coupla days. Plenty of time, since there's guys lopping trees and grinding branches up the road ... The last two days have been spent re-working Heart's With You. The backing...

Big leaps forward

Th questionnaire went live today! It's at http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=4 and will remain there until the end of the year. So far I have posted it to CDBaby's notices and sent it to a heap of associates who expressed interest. Also notified...

The cold light of day ...

Well, I listened back to the recording of Lullabye last night and it was played as beautifully as I thought - though perhaps not edited as well as I would have liked. Have to revisit that today, and re-write one...

News of the morning

Just got a call from Andrew Brown at ACID saying that his letter of support for my funding pplication is writtn and will be left with my supervisor, Steve Dillon to pick upand use. That leaves the only missing link...

Lacking progress

Between my son's birthday and a funeral in Tewantin for my dad's oldest friend and a pillar of my existence, I got very little done yesterday. I did, however, manage another draft of the ACID funding application thingy, which is...

Genre Benders missed out

Missed out on the Q-Music Showcase gigs. Got an e-mail to that effect on Wednesday PM. Really, that just takes pressure off. We can continue rehearsals towards some live shows and recordings later in the year or early next year....

Premier's Smart State Awards

Just received official notification, by snail mail, that my application has been received. It says processing the applications will take until "approximately early November" and I will be notified by e-mail. When will these people ever wake up to New...

Returning to the fold

OK, I haven't blogged for a while, mainly out of frustration. However, I have made some progress and changed tack slightly, and it needs to be written up. Firstly, the damn Premiers' Smart State Application is in and, although I...

Growing frustration

Yesterday was more or less wasted riging people, missing them, waiting for calls back, arguing with thecomputer about why it had or had not sent an e-mail ... And then there was a leak in a pipe in the roof,...

Presenting at the Institute

Most of today will be taken up with attending an Institute of Creative Industries seminar at which I'm obliged to talk about what I'm doing. The seminar addresses multi-disciplinary approaches to things, which is, of course, exactly what I'm doing....

Starting work today

Teaching at UQ this afternoon. This is the job I didn't want - got talked into teaching it - but we could certainly use the money. Yesterday was spent on odd jobs like preparing for today's teaching and setting up...

Back to it

OK, back to the studio today. Late yesterday I had a good chat with David Kay in Creative Industries in the Department of State Development - they had completely the wrong idea about the project. They thought it involved drafting...

Bit more positive today

Had a great chat to Steve yesterday. He said these obstacles were a good thing and I should be greatful I've encountered them early in the process not later - excellent point! Further, he suggested I contact Greg Dodge, who...