Mira, we just passed the nine-month mark a few days ago. We’ve been at this long enough for a full human gestation period. Have we birthed something?
Author: erin
Erin Vang, PMP, BMus, MMus, is Owner and Principal Pragmatist of the consultancy Global Pragmatica LLC®, offering custom JMP scripting, localization program management, and facilitative leadership services. She is also an orchestral horn player who freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and played assorted brass for the celebrated dance bands Midnight Smørgåsbord and contraPtion. She now conducts all her nefarious activities from Vanghalla, in Helena, Montana, where she's principal hornist of the Helena Symphony. More about Erin…
daily kaddish: for amanda simmons
Tomorrow Mira and I will collaborate live to record a proper Kaddish for Amanda Simmons and the guy who shot them both.
daily kaddish: for so many remembered
The whole thing is on muted horn, which gave me license to explore some dynamic range despite recording it with iTalk in a small boomy hallway backstage at the opera.
daily kaddish: on horn, but with the piano’s mic sitting on the strings
This was to be a boring, routine daily kaddish on horn, but I made a mistake: I recorded it on the piano’s mic by accident, and that mic was resting on the strings.
daily kaddish: for all our pets
I’ve been thinking about departed critters a lot lately, because I’ve been at the vet a lot lately.
daily kaddish: on piano
Still trying to adjust to a household in transition. I don’t have any horns out, so I play a “Kaddish” on piano.
daily kaddish: for a hopeful household
After the move-out begins the renewal—or sweeping and mopping, at least.
daily kaddish: syrians
In Syria, eighty-five people were killed on Sunday in government crackdowns, and at least eight more today despite the start of Ramadan.
daily kaddish: for a shared household
Recently I’d been telling a friend how I liked that this household division was leaving my house much less full of stuff, how I wanted to have less stuff, and I heard myself saying that even my 7′ piano seemed negotiable. I was wrong about that.
daily kaddish: on the day of kristin’s memorial
Today is the day of Kirstin’s memorial service, which I couldn’t join because I had a gig in San Jose.