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The one thing that my scientific mind likes about having a terrible cold is to experimentally find out, which sort of herbal tea goes together with which kind of schnapps. Tonights experiment: Mint tea with Raki

I have been ill the last few days, which has given me time to oscillate between reading and sleeping. I have been going through the first 400 pages of “How Music Really Works” that can be read for free. The book is - shall we say - quite peculiar, with long passages about evolution, but it has given me a totally new understanding of music theory. There is a lot of thought that has gone into the description of the components of music, and the last free chapter has an impressive analysis of chord progressions. ...

Yesterday I had a brief Twitter discussion with @halfbyte and @stilkov about “owning your mail” . I think the issue is much more important than just mail - it is about owning your data (and moeffju has written more about it here - in german though). Projects like Ebend Moglens Freedombox are (or in that case, were) a great idea - but don’t seem to reach enough traction to be viable and realistic. ...

Last time I was at a concert of Stephan Eicher must have been in the mid 1980s. Stephan was solo on stage with a guitar and a sampler and a box of floppy discs and after each song, he would smile shy and ask what we wanted to hear. He then proceeded to load that floppy disc and play it. I have heard most of his music since then but never seen him life again. ...

I have had a blast today, working on my “Introduction to Music Production” assignment and had planned to write something about the learning process. However, I am drinking “infusion” (rose hip tea with lemon). Anybody knowing me will know that I tend to drink real tea (Camellia sinensis). This can only mean one thing: I’m starting to get sick. No elaboration on learning today, but here’s the video I made Comping Audio Tracks with Reaper