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Cruising YouTube again. Haven’t felt like blogging lately for various reasons so here’s something great for the meantime.
Check out the music of Vivi Pedraglio from Argentina.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get the music-player widget to work properly on WordPress, but the link works if you click it.
The artist at work
Cliff Martinez has had a pretty stellar musical career (drummer for The Magic Band, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lydia Lunch, among others). Not only that, but he created one of the finest movie scores in recent years, for Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris.
Incidentally, the score by Artemiev for the original Tarkovsky take on Lem’s novel (and my next favourite film after Stalker) was no slouch either.
Anyway, I was browsing a new music site I’ve been enjoying, namely Soundflavor, and I looked him up. There wasn’t much of anything there so I checked to see if he had an official site. He does and it has a download page here, where you can get a big chunk of his back catalogue for free.
It is absolutely gorgeous stuff and extremely generous of Mr Martinez to share it with the world.
Hello again.
This blog is back in action! I have recently got a job at the local college, so I’ll be using this space as I originally had intended – for educational notes, records and research.
My other blog, Nautiloid Burblings, I shall keep for literary, artistic and other interests.
First up, the amazing Google Form.
I am working on a system to make lesson planning a little easier and quicker.
Google forms allow you to save to a spreadsheet that updates automatically and can have any number of contributors. Fantastic for teachers and students and anyone who needs to share complex information.
Note: I have removed the form to avoid possible confusion if anyone decided to add data!
Please comment if you are interested in working together on this type of project or if you want a link to my form.
Our lovely new kitten
Welcome to Inka.
Been off blog for a while. Doing music, looking after our new kitten and getting a job at the local college.
Anyhow, after lots of false starts with what to do with my music on the web, I seem to have found a good home for it: ReverbNation.
I found it via FaceBook and I think it is a very, very good site – well-designed with a lot of neat tools and functionality.
I have posted a lot of the FDL stuff here. Also, it lets you set playlists for other artists that you know or discover as well. Here’s my first one.
