Trying to see if I can manage to complete a few projects this year.
Sold my 10 years old Squier Stratocaster, bought a Strandberg Standard N2.6.
Continued to listen to Christian Merlin "Au choeur de l'orchestre" and "Guitare, Guitare" podcasts.
Very interesting book: "Voyager dans les philosophies du monde" by Roger-Pol Droit.
This year maybe I will add the festival I attended:
- Les Rencontres de Calenzana (In Corsica)
- Various Classical ensembles in beautiful (but difficult to locate and access) spots.
- Drôme de Guitare (In Valence - FR)
- Just stayed one day. Focus on Classical. Much tinier than Issoudun.
- 7th Flute International Convention - (LA TRAVERSIERE - The french flute association)
- 4 days very intense in Paris. Its every 3 years.
- So many great artists and very diverse, from baroque to jazz, piccolo to octoflute... and more.
- Duo Ziriab: such nice energy. (They worked with Mathias Duplessy)
- Yamandu Costa definitely had some influence ...
- CNSM does not mean you are restricted to classical
- Peter VERHOYEN (Piccolo) such incredible and unexpected artist!
- « Flûtes graves » Orchestre de flûtes RÉSONANCES XXI with Gareth Mc LEARNON and Tilmann DEHNHARD
- Octo Flute and else ...
- "The new flute" conference by Tilmann DEHNHARD . Very inspiring.
- "Flute moderne et Impro" by Yann Clery a short history of flute after 1920 (Jazz, Trad, Politics, Musics ...)
- His performance "Yann Solo" was a shock in the convention's context, but why not.
- "Musique Caribéennes" with Olivier Ombredane, very entertaining guy.
- L'ensemble Vibrations+ with the excellent Lydie Thonnard (On YouTube).
- They played an arrangement of PUST - Old Reinlender from Sønndala !
- Concerts: Mario Bruno, Julien Beaudiment, Anais Benoit ... exceptional flutists
- Many others, but too many to list them all ...
- Last but not least: Emmanuel Pahud: a true legend, from flutist to musician to human being.
First I have goals listed in different places:
- Online
- Google tasks
- Roam "projects" (in the Shortcuts)
- TimeStripe
- GitLab
- ?
- On different physical notebooks
- On my laptop ...
