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Creative Business in the Digital EraSeminar by Open Rights Group(Written offline: 2008-03-17-19:30)I went to this seminar today. On the whole, I really enjoyed it.I think for me the most useful part was the section on community-building, and the general emphasis on that aspect of building up a fan base. Maybe that's because nurturing and gradually building up a community is something that I can...

I think today perhaps I am not the early bird, but the worm.I made good progress on my arranging assignment yesterday, but not as much as I would have liked, so I'm still working on it. I got up early enough and worked on it. I left the house, came here, and I'm working on it. This irks me because I really like to get some solid practising in between 8am and 10am, and today I will be unable to do...

Today I woke up, inexplicably, at 5am. Ugh. I got up, washed henna out of my hair, pottered around a bit and got in to practise at my usual time.Practising went much better this morning than yesterday. I've had a look at what I need to do for my end-of-year exam. It's a matter of lots of orchestral extracts, lots of scales, and one piece. The choice of pieces is actually rather narrow, which is...

Life has been busy. Sorting out housing has moved along several steps but it still isn't finished. Highlights include the old agent being verbally abusive and threatening, a small electrical fire in the bathroom (nobody hurt thank goodness), and a distinct lack of internet access. I'm not impressed. I really do like the area I live in now, but I do not think I will stay in that flat after my...

Looooong time no post!I've been plodding along despite having a bad cold. I've been in 2 brass band concerts, a wind dectet concert, and, um, that's it, but lots of rehearsals for the Mbawula Sing! Africa concerts this Thursday and Friday. When that's over with I have another brass band, wind ensemble, and symphony orchestra. All the rehearsals have kept me off of the Aikido mat, which is...

I'm considering auditioning for the UBS Verbier Orchestra in February. It's one of the few 'youth' orchestras that I'm still young enough to participate in, with an upper age limit of 29. I'm actually quite unlikely to succeed at such an audition, but it would be a good experience. I have many, many orchestral excerpts to learn for the end of year exams this year, and a February audition would be...

I'm a student at Trinity College of Music, London, and I'm planning to use this blog for documentation of various musical and academic projects I'm involved with. If you look hard enough you can probably figure out who I am, but I'd really rather you didn't.It's the third week of classes this week and I'm enjoying things, so far. Improvisation classes on Wednesdays are a bit unstructured and I...

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