Finished. This last week I have been preparing the presentation for the talk to Bangor U3A next week, “German Romanticism, Minimalism and the Sublime” and it is now done. I plan to leave it until Monday or Tuesday, then have another look at it. I find a break helps in the polishing process…fresh eyes and all that. I am going to include a transcription I made a couple of years ago called ‘Homage to Friedrich’ – a response to ‘Monk by the Sea’. The presentation has been put together in PowerPoint and I enjoy the process…I guess it is a bit like film making. I find that the story-line evolves as I work and the ability to see the evolving story as a set of frames I find helpful. The research and materials will also go some way in supporting the Presentation and Dissertation for my Critical Studies module.
This morning, my musician friend Warren dropped-off a two octave keyboard which he wasn’t currently using. After setting it up on my laptop, he then took a sample of a concrete block sliding across a floor (which I had got from freesound.org) and after patching through the ProTools sampler, I can now mix concrete with a keyboard. I love technology.
Homage to Friedrich
