2023 summary

 

Life is bigger than what you can imagine. 

• Still using Roam http://www.roamresearch.com/ to take notes
• Still using Mastodon mainly, but also Reddit,  Discord and Rocket.chat ...
• Using a bit of https://timestripe.com/ 
• Enjoying https://EuropeansPodcast.com/ and the multiple Risky Business podcasts.
• I try to give more money to Bandcamp and other things I like https://EuropeansPodcast.com/ 
• Still reading DenseDiscovery 
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Found:

• Old memories:
• I saw in Lyon in 1995 "La longue nuit du film court" this short film by Luc Moullet: "La cabale des oursins"
• I saw when I was about 15 or 16 years old ... The movie "Julia" (1977). I have been trying to find it for years, I did not remember the title and only vaguely the plot. 

2023 Music summary

• January : Stupeflip !
• February
• PoiL Ueda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cglVyEFzeZY (Dur et Doux & Junko Ueda)
• Via NPR 
• Reminds me of Ruins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjk648rzZc
• May
• Very old memory: I saw Alexander Swete in Lyon in 1994. For the bis, he played a wonderful piece that was not on the program and I wondered for decades what it was. I found out: Santa Cruz by David Qualey. He played it differently, highlighting clearly the different voices.  I was not able to find a recording by Alexander Swete himself alas.
• June 
• Ulysse Mars in concert. Excellent. 
• August
• Theorbo Helstroffer Bruno "Thanx Toumani"  via le podcast Guitares, Guitares sur France Musique.
• September
• Facteur Chevaux (http://FacteursChevaux.free.fr/) I saw them in concert. Pure magic. 
• October
• Bureau d'Études de la Chanson (une émanation du collectif Les Aimants.) Leur Polyphonies sont à mourir de rire. (Les partitions sont en vente.)
• Novembre
• Laurent Berger Saw him in concert alone. Excellent.

2022 summary

• Still using Roam http://www.roamresearch.com/ to take notes
• Deleted my Twitter account. Using to Mastodon mainly, but also Reddit,  Discord and Rocket.chat ...
• Using a bit of https://timestripe.com/ 
• Enjoying https://EuropeansPodcast.com/ and the multiple Risky Business podcasts.
• I try to give more money to Bandcamp and other things I like https://EuropeansPodcast.com/ 
• Used this nice Moleskine weekly notebook. (But I have to admit that a simple notebook with rule sheet is better for diary. It feels more free.)
• Best newsletter by far is DenseDiscovery 
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Found:

• Fanny Ruwet (Humour non Parisien)
• Elodie Poux  (Maybe it was in 2021 ...) Best humorist. 
• Sa revue de presse sur Paris Premiere est top !
• Thomas Wiesel (Humour non Parisien)
• https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClvxvlPoT8y/
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2022 Music summary

 What happened in 2022 ...

Top discoveries:

• Derek Gripper ! How could have I missed him so many years?
• All his work is worth listening to, but here are 3 top of the top:
• Seeing Nobody  ;  Jarabi   ;  Wonderful visual  "Remembering Julian Bream"
• Via "Guitare, Guitares" on France Musique.
• KAINA - Apple !!  
• So Groovy and Jazzy !!!
• via NPR "All Songs Considered" 
•  Kae Tempest : More Pressure   (with nice lyrics )
• Powerful
• Andrew Bird - Atomized
• Quoting the 7th from Beethoven got me.
• Other titles are great too !
• Doris Anahí - Aprendiendo por las Malas 
• Simple but so effective 
• Other titles did not give me the same feeling
• Xuefei Yang ; Raphael Feuillatre ; ...
• Both great guitarists
• Lina Lagrima - En otre mundo
• Tango today

No discovery, but keep on delivering excellent music are:

• Isto most impressive flow of songs, year after year !
• Yamandu Costa obviously
• Joe Robinson the most productive one ?
• Pedro Franco I wish he would push more videos
• Chris Buck ; Eric Haugen ; ...

Note taking, journaling, second brain ... which application?

 I am always searching for a note taking app that would allow me to organize my notes.

It is always easy to take notes, to add tags and add more stuff.

The issue is to have a return on investment. What do we gain from typing all these notes and trying to tag them?  If it is a big mess after a year, it is better to take notes on paper (for instant gratification) and leave it to Google to find th info on Internet a few years later.  You can then take new notes on paper ...

I have been using Workflowy for years. It was very quick, simple and reliable. And Free to use.

Then I switched to Roam last year. There was so much hope (and hype?).  Today other similar applications (Workflowy typically) feature the same backlinks. And Workflowy is faster. 

Today I might leave Roam. What I am lacking is still

• a User Experience that would facilitate organization, structuration. 
• a way to publish some of the hierarchy to a blog or Static Site

I am looking to Foam and Dendron and LogSeq.  But adding content to them is not as seamless as with Workflowy or Roam.

 Google Blogger platform seems to be much more responsive than it was a few years back.

Maybe I will come back to it.

It is a very simple and efficient way to blog.

Sound banks

• "Conserve the sound" http://www.conservethesound.de/
   online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life.
• Polyphone http://polyphone-soundfonts.com/en/soundfonts
• Tone of resources free: https://Musical-Artifacts.com/
• Free SoundBanks http://freepats.zenvoid.org/
• https://CitiesAndMemory.com/sound-map/

This is a raw dump of my Workflowy section about SoundBanks ... I wish there were better way to share them ...