A couple of weeks ago I promised never to post my music on this blog again.
So I lied. I composed a new tune today, and once again I’m using it as an excuse for a blog post. I guess it’s the exhibitionist hidden somewhere deep inside of me that craves attention.
It’s another self-penned lyric - as I mentioned in my […]
I found these criteria for “unacceptable music” in Josef Skvorecky’s book “The Bass Saxophone.” You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a joke - it’s not.
Could this in any way account for David Hasselhoff’s current popularity in Germany, I wonder? (Please, please, don’t be offended, my dear German readers, that was just a reflex - I couldn’t help myself… Besides, I’m […]
How the Music Industry Commited Suicide
Jul 10th, 2007 by schiing in Music, Technology
I discovered this graph over at swivel.com the other day. I figure it reveals exactly where the music industry went wrong between 1999 and the present.
It displays a perfectly logical chronological evolution of technology, where new formats gradually replace the old ones. If we went further back in time, we’d probably see similar results for the shift from 78 records to […]
So, are you in the mood for a little samba? No? Too bad, here’s one for you anyway.
I wrote about the old 78 records I got from my granddad a couple of days ago. I’ve transferred some of them to mp3, and all my fears were justified. The quality is poor - both what audio quality […]
My RSS Feed Is Acting Weird
Jul 3rd, 2007 by schiing in General, Personal, Technology
System update: My RSS feed has been a little unpredictable since I redirected my blog - some of my old posts suddenly pop up in front of the more recent ones. And I’m hardly getting any hits on the site today, so I’m still experimenting with the settings here to get it right.
It’s not like I had a million readers before, […]
I’m moving my blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress account. Hopefully I’ve covered all bases, so most of you will be redirected from your old bookmarks.
My new home is http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/, be sure to update your bookmarks. I tried to redirect the RSS feeds, but I didn’t succeed - it actually seems impossible to do […]
I’ve inherited a bunch of old 78 vinyl records from my granddad, and I’m just about to start transferring them to mp3. I haven’t heard any of them yet, but by the look of it, there’s no point bothering with flac / ape-formats - they haven’t been treated with much love, it seems.
But it’ll […]