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Ambient Explorations is a series of four instant composition pieces. The only instrument used is an electric guitar, that is routed through a complex labyrinth of effects (mainly delays). The delays mangle and re-texture the guitar sound, creating long and evolving sound-scapes. Ambient • Exploration by Jens-Christian Fischer Ambient Explorations

In 2017, I played multiple times at Stall6 where Richard Csizmazia organised the Signal Zirkus Zurich meetups. Most of the concerts weren’t recorded (mostly due to failures of my equipment), but on 2017-07-18 the stars were aligned and I was able to record the whole set. Ambient Guitar Electronique - Live at Stall 6 by Jens-Christian Fischer Buy the Ambient Guitar Electronique on Bandcamp. (Name your price, starting at CHF 0.00) ...

On a business trip to Prague I brought my iPad and used my time on the plane to and from Prague and at Prague airport to create three purely electronic pieces. Each of them was recorded live and in one take, using a variety of iPad applications. From Prague to Zurich by Jens-Christian Fischer Buy From Prague to Zurich on Bandcamp. (Name your price - even CHF 0.00) ...

Contrary to what the last blog post was (or wasn’t suggesting) I didn’t die while fasting - I just lost 7kg and the will to finish the 100 day blogging challenge (call it 95% success) And then a Wordpress update led to me not being able to access the backend, so I couldn’t blog anymore. And then a lot of other things happened in RL that just put blogging on the back burner. Luckily I have a nasty cold these days, so I could start to take care of all the small things that needed attention - like this blog for example. ...

So we are running an OpenStack installation based on Folsom, but with Ceph as our underlying storage engine for volumes. This is a bit cutting edge. To make matters more bleeding, we run the Ceph OSDs on BTRFS - definitively bleeding edge, as we had various of our servers die with BTRFS related kernel panics. The advice usually given is to upgrade the BTRFS code - so we have started to migrate our Quantal (12.10) servers to Raring (13.04) ...

Almost at the end of day one of the fast - this was both more and less difficult than the last time I remember. Easier because I’m not actually hungry, there is sort of a constant nagging from the stomach, but nothing that is really difficult to ignore (or to shut down with a glass of water). The family (of course) continues to eat, and that is a bit more difficult to stomach - so to speak - so I have not spent time with them at the table. Still the smell of freshly made Lasagne is a strong detractor. ...