The Ballad of the Small Room

[ateolf]

Yesterday evening I finished reading The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers. It was good and there were a couple of stories that were very good. Then I did some rearranging in this room to set up a space to practice for the live score. I cleaned up some stuff to make some room and now have a (different) little synth corner with a big table with stuff and my portable three-tier rack to the side of it. Now with the big table it barely fits (now I'm actually all cramped up sitting here by my computer because of the encroaching dimensions). I almost decided to abandon the big table in favor of the smaller table that just fits the eurorack because I fit most else of what I needed on the bottom shelf of my rack, but then I realized I could fit the ARP Avatar and Sequencer on the big table with my eurorack. I've been going back-and-forth on whether to use that. I like the idea of it a lot because John Carpenter used that very combination extensively on the soundtracks of this era. But it's going to be a lot of stuff to lug around (and take up space here) in order to do like one thing (and kinda for the idea of it). We'll see, if I get sick of it I can move it later. At night Mary Beth and I watched this documentary Body of Truth about four artists who use their bodies in their work: Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Shirin Neshat, and Katharina Sieverding. It was good though we were beset with technical challenges as when we first tried to watch it after a number of seconds the screen kept going completely green. We finally hooked up a tablet to the tv and tried it that way and were able to watch it. Success!