artsyhonker aka Kathryn @artsyhonker@mastodon.art

I compose sacred and secular choral music, and put it online under a CC by-SA license so choirs can sing it for free!

Publishers won't touch my work because I won't let them prohibit photocopying, so I need support from people like you.

My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/artsyhonker

I have other options for people who prefer them:
http://www.artsyhonker.net/support

Thank you so much!

#MastoMusic
#CreativeCommons
#choir
#acappella
#choral
#sacred
#OneDollarPatreon
#CreativeToots

#FocusTime is a structure for companiable support with getting stuff done -- work or side projects or admin or whatever you find difficult to stick with.

The basic structure is: ten minutes of checking-in and planning at the top of the hour, then 50 minutes of actually doing things, repeated for up to 3 hours.

More on the structure, plus an example:
https://artsyhonker.dreamwidth.org/54653.html

I expect I'll be using this hashtag a lot, so you may wish to mute it if it's boring to you. I will CW my toots though.

A friend suggested there should be a "musician gig kit" available with commonly-forgotten things like clothes pegs (for holding music in place at outdoor gigs), sore throat lozenges etc -- what would you put in such a bag? #fb

@artsyhonker (I jotted it down, I know better than to commute without a notebook.)

When you're on the tube reading a book and then your brain decides that Right Now is the time to write a Pié Jesu. #ComposerProblems #MastoMusic

@irina You might be able to help me -- if I were looking for sheet music (not recordings, necessarily) of music by St Kassiani, where would be a good place to start?

@artsyhonker Also I don't quite understand why pinhole glasses aren't just a thing you buy for a fiver if you only need a low prescription anyway, the way people with otherwise good vision buy cheapo reading glasses at corner shops or chemists.

(...I wonder if they work well enough to use as reading glasses?)

There is a lot of woo out there on pinhole glasses being used to improve unaided vision, which as far as I can tell is hogwash.

Can't find my pinhole glasses. Think I will order more.

They don't give anything like *good* vision, with my prescription (-8, plus terrible astigmatism), but if my glasses break they are still much better than nothing, and at <£5 on the Bay of e, they're cheap enough to keep as spares.

I don't understand why prescription glasses and contact lenses aren't routinely available on the NHS for adults.

This morning in #jointcrap: pain in the soles of my feet. I'm assuming it's referred from elsewhere, probably lower back, because it feels nothing like the plantar fasciitis I had for nearly two years and need to be careful of.

@artsyhonker I know of someone using IRC with a Commodore64 and an acoustic coupler so I guess it would be along those lines.

The issue now will be the internet connection, I guess. Do dialup ISPs even exist, still?

I'm still a tiny bit asleep after a rough night. I dreamed I had taken my serpent apart and replaced the bottom half with a recorder and was still playing it but it wouldn't quite fit together. In waking life this is not possible; the serpent doesn't come apart like *that*.

Just now I decided to toot about it and thought "must start up the toot machine". I don't know how it works but it involved plungers, valves and so on.

Now I'm wondering what is the oldest technology you could toot from.

I compose sacred and secular choral music, and put it online under a CC by-SA license so choirs can sing it for free!

Publishers won't touch my work because I won't let them prohibit photocopying, so I need support from people like you.

My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/artsyhonker

I have other options for people who prefer them:
http://www.artsyhonker.net/support

Thank you so much!

#MastoMusic
#CreativeCommons
#choir
#acappella
#choral
#sacred
#OneDollarPatreon
#CreativeToots

Met a lovely, very friendly cat the other morning on my walk and texted his person (number on collar) to check he was OK as I hadn't met him before and I walk there regularly.

He was a super cat and jumped right into my lap for a cuddle when I sat on a log to rest.

Today I got a text: he died yesterday. He was found yesterday morning in the same area, with no collar. They don't know what happened.

I know I only met him once, but I'm pretty upset.

Free 8-week writing exercises boot camp in the form of 20-minute podcast episodes that are 10 minutes of talking and ten minutes of writing!

I...kindof want to try this? I don't think of myself as a writer. But still. Nifty.

http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/couchto80kwritingbootcamp/

Found another publisher I didn't know about, and with that, a whole bunch of super-suitable pieces, mostly by relatively unknown composers.

This is good but it also increases my admin backlog!

But it's time to stop for today.

#FocusTime