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I love the Borodin string quartet.

I mean, LOVE. Love love love love love love love.

I play in a quartet that rehearses every Wednesday night, and we dedicate roughly half of our time to reading. Tonight our reading included the first movement of Borodin's string quartet. THE quartet, the famous one. (In fact, if he wrote more than one, I don't know anything about the others. It's the one that was adapted to become a musical called Kismet.) When Nick and I got married, the first movement was our processional and the 2nd movement was our recessional. That's how much I love this piece, and how much I have loved it for years and years.

I'd like to reiterate that if anyone has requests for a project loop track, I'd love to hear them. Right now I'm having trouble motivating myself to come up with things because of all of the other projects I'm doing, but if given some direction I think I could squeeze out one or two a month minimum. So leave suggestions in the comments below if you have any, or you can always use the contact form.

Cheers,
Candy

Before I even start anything else, I'd like to thank the people who have been using my music from Project Loop in their videos recently. I love hearing about it when you do, and watching the videos that you've made. It makes me really happy to see that it's useful to people and fills some sort of need. So thank you :)

The last month has sort of slipped me by. I'm not sure where it went. Regardless, I seem to have avoided updating pretty much everything on the internet during that time, so let's do a little catching up, shall we?

Posting some links to other sites has been long overdue, and the blog seems the most appropriate place to put them. Since they're all new this time, I'll explain them all here, but as things get added new links will get their own posts. I don't link anything that I don't think is actually relevant somehow. As a side note, you might already know most if not all of these sites if you are a YouTuber, but that won't stop me from linking them and writing about how awesome they are.

Tonight I was inspired to write a short character piece, and made a quick recording of it for Project Loop - it's called looking out the window on a rainy day. You can find it here.

Current Projects:

I'm writing a set of songs (NOT a song cycle, though) for the amazing Diana Bryan. It's going to be settings of five Emily Dickinson poems, with three to be done for a partial premiere in December.

I recently finished an arrangement of Dvorak's Song to the Moon from his opera, Rusalka, for the lovely ladies of Four Voices String Quartet. It's for solo instrument and quartet, and now I'm working on a quartet-only version. I hope to have the draft of that done in a few weeks. (P.S. Four Voices is amazing and I highly recommend them - they played at my wedding and I was more than happy for it.)

So, I know this site gets, like, thousands of hits every day, but I haven't put up a new track recently. (But you really should be proud of me - usually when I say I'm going to do something once a week it's once every few months.)

HOWEVER, awesome things of amazing goodness are to come. I'm getting some lessons from a friend on how to make electronic music for real, and with that I should be able to do a lot of the stuff that's in my head. I have loads of things waiting to get out and just not sure how to do that yet.

I just didn't blog about them. For the benefit of the nobody who reads this blog, here are the links:

Circus Night, "acoustic" piano
Circus Night, "electric" piano

I happen to think these ones are pretty sweet, yo.

So it's been kindof hot lately in Minnesota. And when I say kindof, I mean kindof.

Like, in the eighties ish. I think. I don't even know. But I do know that the second floor of my building tends to be much, much hotter than outside, and that it traps humidity with a vice grip. So we've been running our AC. Last night it exploded the world.

Okay, so maybe it didn't explode the world, but it blew a circuit (again). The last time it happened it may have ruined the power supply on a friend's XBOX 360, and this time the backup supply attached to Nick's computer decided to let out a loud scream out the whole time it was running instead of that cursory little beep that means, "you're drawing on backup power, you may want to check your normal power situation".

What's that??? I'm posting TWICE in ONE DAY???? SWEET!!!

Now if only someone else were that excited about it ;)