Week of November 10, 2019

1. Student workshop at Annette Studios, Toronto. The jazz students play in a professional trio today. Always a highlight for everyone concerned. 
2. Cubase Pro 10 tutorials continue. I'm happy I upgraded. Though these damned DAW clearly have a lot of technological determinism build into them. They are clearly designed so that the unskilled can make some recognizable noises. The music of the tutorials is nearly universally mind numbingly banal because of that.  ("Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have originated from Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American sociologist and economist." Wikipedia)​
   
3. Practicing my ass off in order to stave off banality in my own work. 
   
4. Thursday night is Jazz jam.