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December 2015
November 2015

Over the past winter, when the northerlies were howling at 140kph and the house itself would sometimes shudder, the little space heater in my study/workshop was working overtime, just me and the cat trying to keep warm. He has the benefit of thick fur and a heated sleeping pad. Me? Not much in the way of body fat but a closetful of wool jumpers. I’ve gotten used to wearing a wool beanie while sitting at my desk. Most of the older houses in New Zealand have little if any insulation in the walls. People just put on another layer.

A carved wooden kiwi is a man-in-shed kinda thing here in New Zealand. I’ve even carved one myself.

I’ve sometimes lived in a single room, and even though I now live in a house I still tend to occupy one room, my study. It’s packed to the ceiling with books, my computers, my carved wooden kiwi collection, and what is starting to look like an electronics lab. Oh yeah, and the cat’s bed. It used to also contain all my musical gear but that’s been moved out into the lounge so I can jam with my mates. I was also running out of space.

This past winter was largely spent digging through datasheets and schematics, endlessly cutting little bits of copper wire, trying to figure out how to plug a this into a that onto the breadboard and have the result be musical and interesting. Well, that’s the challenge anyway…

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Improvised, abstract music.

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