2025 Projects

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 ...