catalogue of pointless hobbies

entry 1:
collecting skiing boots:
doubtful because expensive in monetary and spatial terms, plus not very nice to look at

entry 2:
trying to have matching shoes for each outfit:
only possible way to succeed would be if the only color is black.. and even then it would be a hard task, finishing with more pairs then you could wear in a month (and a hefty overdraft on the credit card)

entry 3:
devising optimisation procedures for the food machine:
ends with regular frustration why people don't use their brains and my cookies are always crumbled when they came down from the top shelf...

what is research?

* being paid for keeping yourself busy all day by thinking about problems?
* assuming that the solution already exists (somewhere in the domain of possibilities, or somewhere else in the world) and therefore has to be re-searched in order to (hopefully) be re-found??
* other proposals?

(I presumably need your help on that one, as - according to this definition - I already missed the chance to ever become a serious researcher in my childhood... (how should I have known that a grandmother's clock should have any significance to my career path ;) )

new music - just printed and recorded..

In case anyone thinks I'm having lazy weekends... I'm not... :) In fact, I spent all Saturday and Sunday in the studio, recording a new soundtrack for a very old short film. The music was composed by Tiziano Popoli for last year's short film festival in Bolzano and we played the world first performance. Now, one year later, the resistant core of the orchestra found together again and on this weekend we finally recorded Tiziano's wonderful music. I think it went quite well, and I'm impatient to see the final result: the movie with our freshly packed soundtrack :)
If anyone is interested in having a 'good old time' cinema experience, I invite you warmly to our concert next Saturday: as there is another film festival this year (which is even dedicated to these 'rimusicazioni's) we will perform with two films, one with the mentioned soundtrack and one with music by Satie.

alternative music

Maybe some of you know about interesting modern music, for example for tape and orchestra or piano with integrated toolboxes...

So how does that sound: 'Music for one apartment and six drummers' ? If you are curious, click here!

For more on the group go here.

when in doubt..

When in doubt, tell the truth.
-- Mark Twain

on care

Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
possess.
-- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]

on wisdom

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

big brother is watching you

I seriously feel a bit paranoid on occasions.. I finally start to be able to read Russian letters... and, what happens?? I now get Russian Spam!! Jeez, wonder how they found out... especially as I'm not a frequent user of .ru domains... Spooky

a flavour of brighton

I will be back...

for some of you, I was - yesterday...
for some of you, I will be tomorrow.
for some of you, it will take me more than that.
but when it is time, I will be back.