FundamentallySound Blog

I bought some new red shoes. They're a brilliant red that I really enjoy, much better than other types of red. There's only one type of red that I like, and it's this barn/church door red. I've also noticed the color on those huge wooden shutters on old houses in the Hague.

Today I took a walk through Golden Gate Park. I always seem to forget how lovely the park is, especially the Botanical Gardens.

It was a typical late summer San Francisco day, cold, gray, and windy. I really love this weather, makes me want to do nothing more than sort of barricade myself in my apartment and work.

Speaking of work, I've recently updated the Sound Swap site, an online collaborative node for Seamus Cater and I to continue our work together while in different parts of the world. On the site, I've added a new ending for our piece (untitled). I like the new ending much better. Marc at disquiet.com had this to say about the piece: "Cater's harmonica [is] processed by Schrock, who creates a kind of monastic zone-out realm, with overlapping patterns of round tones that echo Terry Riley's minimalist mysticism." Apparently it was also the top download at that site this past week.

In other music news, my piece commissioned by the American Music Center's Siday–Music–On–Hold program is now online at the AMC site. NPR did a story on the project, you can listen to it here.

While walking through the park this morning, I noticed that the new de Young museum, designed by the Pritzker prize winning duo of Herzog & de Meuron, is almost finished. I snapped some photos. "Continue reading" to see them...

update: I'm *not* going to be performing at Le Placard on Sunday. I misread their schedule and signed up for 5:30 AM instead of 5:30 PM. Next time... Living in America has put me back on a 12 hour clock instead of a 24 hour clock.