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June 15, 2007

Wiki

OK, today I registered www.musowiki.org and www.musowiki.net as domains to host the wiki and forwarded them to the wiki on this site. I have also received advice from my current host (and probable future host), Hostbaby, that I'm running on...
Posted by Hughie at 10:57 AM | Comments (0)

May 17, 2007

THAT NYT article

It's great to have friends. I got this New York Times article from four unrelated sources - including my supervisor, Phil, and it's so important to what I'm doing. It's a great case analysis of what artists can do to...
Posted by Hughie at 9:03 AM | Comments (0)

March 13, 2007

Beavering away

It's pretty much flat out ro get the keyboard parts right for 12 Good Bars and Mighty Fine Day right now. Yesterday I got the Organ for 12 Good Bars about where I want it ... I think. I'll listen...
Posted by Hughie at 10:01 AM | Comments (0)

January 11, 2007

Found the gap ...

Just been chewing though my literature/context review for confirmation. According to Steve, the main purpose of this at confirmation is to nominate the gap in the literature which the research will seek to fill. As of Tuesday, I have found...
Posted by Hughie at 8:48 AM | Comments (0)

December 12, 2006

More books to read

Yesterday, two books that I ordered from Amazon arrived. They are: The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Revolution by Dave Kusek and Gerd Leonhard, whic I've started first and is big on the "Music Like Water" thesis. Interesting...
Posted by Hughie at 9:29 AM | Comments (0)

December 5, 2006

Software failures!

I'm getting rather pissed off with my Pro Tools setup, which keeps crashing for no apparent reason. It works very nicely for a while and then just has a massive system failure and dies for no reason - usually in...
Posted by Hughie at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)

October 30, 2006

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...
Posted by Hughie at 8:58 AM | Comments (0)

September 29, 2006

AoIR conference rocks!

Blogging by laptop via a wireless network in the Hilton Hotel! Does it get any better? Seriously, though, this conference has provided plenty of interesting and relevent new research, and I've made contact with some really interesting people working in...
Posted by Hughie at 10:23 AM | Comments (0)

September 22, 2006

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....
Posted by Hughie at 11:49 AM | Comments (0)

September 11, 2006

Practice and perfection.

Amazing how after a month of not playing Bunnies tunes I can get rusty on them. Yesterday I played our monthly gig at Dicey Reilly's and was struggling to remember some of the words and chords. I guess the focus...
Posted by Hughie at 10:24 AM | Comments (0)

August 29, 2006

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...
Posted by Hughie at 9:51 AM | Comments (0)

August 9, 2006

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....
Posted by Hughie at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)

June 19, 2006

How things happen

Jimmy Webb's book is a source of all sorts of revelation. Last night I got to the bit that discussed the way sleep can assist the creative process. Although I have always been sort of aware of this phenomenon, knowing...
Posted by Hughie at 9:28 AM | Comments (0)

June 14, 2006

Productivity

Got lots of Bunnies' guitar parts down yesterday - but they were the easy ones. Got a few more to do today that will be harder. With a bit of luck I'll get around to doing more of the vocal...
Posted by Hughie at 10:29 AM | Comments (0)

May 2, 2006

Nearly over the hurdles.

The Stage 2 document is complete and will be submitted today. I have to complete the request for ethical clearance this morning and submit that also. Then is is (hopefully) bureaucratic plain sailing and I can get into the actual...
Posted by Hughie at 10:45 AM | Comments (0)

April 20, 2006

More tidying up.

Mission for today: get the UQ course finished! Now that the kids are all back at school/care and we're starting back on regular routines, I wanna clear the decks for future action. Just started reading Phil Graham's paper on Monopsony...
Posted by Hughie at 10:20 AM | Comments (0)

April 18, 2006

Fixing the basics

Having gotten through the methodologies assignment and then Easter, I thought I'd spend today cleaning up a few things and preparing for the next stage. That means adding a "robots, noindex" meta tag to this blog, which will help prevent...
Posted by Hughie at 11:11 AM | Comments (0)

April 5, 2006

Continuing progress

The assignment is about 2/3 done, now. Will send it for some more fedback ahead of today's meeting with Steve. However, before I can do that I will have to get some kind of respnse from my e-mail programs. When...
Posted by Hughie at 10:00 AM | Comments (0)

April 4, 2006

Working steadily

The hurdle assignment is now about half done. It's coming along OK after some very valuable feedback from Steve about what I had left out - plus a heads-up on where to find some great stuff on "deep insider research"....
Posted by Hughie at 10:05 AM | Comments (0)

March 9, 2006

Horror from within!

I have just been brought to the realisation that my research is largely informed by critical theory. That is, I want to use it to change the world (well, one step at a time). :-) This is rather personally confronting...
Posted by Hughie at 8:59 PM | Comments (0)

February 22, 2006

Disappointments and promising things

Right. Still haven't knocked over the AIRS assignment. It's fiddly and time-consuming. Simple, but time-consuming. Of course, it's probably going to help turn up lots of great literature on various subjects, but right now I'm swimming in good stuff to...
Posted by Hughie at 9:48 AM | Comments (0)