When you just cant Sleep.... Work.

Many thanks to all those who have taken the time to wish me well.

Support means the world to me, and helps a guy when he's feeling down.

I haven't been able to get a proper sleep since the surgery.

Sweating lots.

Two hours chunks and then I wake up.

I can get two of those and then it's all lying around and not getting past consciousness.

I'm going to start working on writing that I have to finish, today.

I've been tinkering on my PD sampler the last couple of days, as it's easy and doesn't take much out of me.

I've got mute/solos on each track and will alter my group toggles to be more like actual buses.

I've figured out the best way to have presets and have also thought out how to lay down different patterns that break the start at the same time issue I was facing.

pipe object

I'll dig up a bunch of cool beats and then program them in.

I'm excited to integrate Greg's sequencer into the patch.

I figure he's running an lengthofsoundfile equation that breaks it down into 16 chunks.

I'll know once I get my hands on it and reverse engineer the thing.

This sampler would not be possible without the help of my classmates: big-ups team.

I'm excited to send it off into the world for people to use and play with.

Perhaps, it can be a free tool for music creation in high-schools and more.

oh yeah....

I'm also going to add in a bar count-in for recording.

At the moment though, I need to spend some time away from it to focus on a couple other things.

Extended abstract deadline extension.

I now have until May 1st rather than April 5th to get my extended abstract into the iPed09 conference. I am very excited to get my paper submitted.

Meanwhile, I must finish my material culture paper that I fell away from.

Everything kind of came apart in my life right before the surgery.

Dates and physical bounding boxes be damned, I'm interested in my best growth and potential.

The working title for the iPed paper is "Breaking the Mold: learning on both sides of the box."

It'll focus on moving beyond the barriers of linear learning and allowing students the chance to truly connect with the personal motivation required for the most successful growth.

A concept of no-distance learning.

Time to finish my thank you letter for my Eaton Entrance Scholarship.

The awards ceremony is on the 20th of April.

Hopefully, I can get the two pieces I'm looking to silent auction for charity framed and then put them up in the show.

The question I've been asking myself is....

What is the best charitable event to sell high-art for?