What I am planning for Lent…

No, not the music -- more on that anon. I'm planning something else.I'm planning on sowing, each day of Lent, some seeds for edible plants. I'll be posting pictures to Tumblr and those will turn up on Twitter; once a week I'll try and do a summary post of some sort, which I'll link to from here and FaceBorg and various other places for those of you who aren't into Twitter.Do feel free to join me,...

Please can I keep it? It followed me home…

I was feeling a little unfocused and restless yesterday so decided to go for a walk after lunch.I wandered past the charity shop on Leytonstone High Road, as I sometimes do, and decided to have a peek inside.I came home with a musical instrument. This is why I shouldn't be allowed out of the house unsupervised...At first glance, it just looks like a box.A box with strange protrusions and...

Metrical Psalms for Advent

I want to encourage the use of psalms in liturgy. To this end I have committed to compiling a small booklet of metrical psalms for use this coming Advent (Year B). As with everything else I publish I will release the work under a CC BY-SA licence so that other people can use it, free of charge, without having to bother me for permission.I aim to have two settings of each of the psalms for the...

Multi-tracking chant experiment

This is a brief experiment with multi-tracking Creator lucis optime (English) by artsyhonkerYou see, I've got this hare-brained idea about podcasting a sung Compline online, possibly in some kind of Whitacre-style virtual choir. That's hard to coordinate, with chant: the pulse is directed by the words, so metronome markings are no help, for starters. But gathering together a little schola...