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Andrew Bird.... has been the probably the biggest inspiration to me the past couple of years.

his newest release is a album of live recordings from a series of small, intimate concerts in Chicago he did called "Gezelligheid", translating roughly from Dutch meaning "coziness". the album is comprised mostly of instrumental violin numbers, in the typical looping, building, improvisational Andrew Bird style.

i have instruments. i have a looping pedal. as liz lemon would say, "i want to go to there".

recorded Andrew Bird's "Scythian Empires" on my Jamman looping pedal, slowed it down, ran it through digital delay pedal, played with distortion on that and my amp.

there are some points that sound really cool, skip around. need to try other combinations/instruments/sounds...

so i've spent today working on applications for summer internships at the Guggenheim museum in manhattan as well as the Hirshhorn museum in DC, two museums that have greatly influenced me throughout the years. from visiting these museums countless times, i now strive to create work of a type and caliber that ends up in places similar to these great museums.

now, i don't actually want an internship. my experience last summer made me vow to never go through that futile, wearisome process ever again. but these places are different, and it would truly be a dream come true to spend a summer working inside either of these two museums.

AND any museum or institution that programs something like THIS? mmmmmmmmmmmmmhmmmmm.... COME ON!

by the way, this "Sonic Arboretum" happened two days after i moved out of the city this summer. boooo.

I have a sitar performance in a couple weeks.  In addition to a typical Indian raga, we are allowed to play another song.  I've asked my teacher if this would be a good one to play, and he really likes it.  Hopefully I can rope a few of my peers into playing it too.  

He said I can play it under one condition: I "Indianize" it. hmmm....

This whole album is easy like Sunday morning ☕️