Field and Life Recordings
This baby likes to laugh! In the past, our experience with babies is that they like to shriek at ear-piercing levels most of the time. Not Juniper, though. It’s a rare occasion when she refuses to smile. There are a bunch of videos on YouTube that play gross, saccharine recordings of “Wheels on the Bus” […]
When Otis turned four we went on a little family trip to Burlington to celebrate. The most exciting part of this trip, if you were to ask Otis, was the fact that we stayed in a hotel. We went out to dinner, walked around Church St., and went to the ECHO Center, but the best […]
Oma and Pops took us on a snowy walk in the recently discovered Footbridge Park in Elizabethtown. There’s a nice little path along the river and several little sound/art/exercise stations stashed in various places in the woods. We got some sticks and played a little bell/gong thing for a while. (The brochure calls it a […]
There’s a dinky little science museum in Watertown. We’d seen it, but we hadn’t been inside until recently. Turns out that although the whole think is pretty low-budget, they have some neat exhibits. Otis’s favorites: a regular old checkboard and this coin funnel. (You know, the kind of funnel they have in airports and museums […]
Our friend Jerod recently played with Blinkenlights at the coffee shop here in Potsdam. Synthesizers and action art! It was fantastic and we stuck around as long as we could until a sleepy Otis started getting antsy.
We got held up on our way back to Potsdam. First, the oil pressure warning light came on and our JetBlue flight had to make an emergency landing in Charleston. (When it turned out that we were going to be stuck there for 5+ hours, they placated us passengers by ordering Jimmy Johns from a […]
We outgrew Pops and Oma’s house. All four of us kids (and our families) head to Elizabethtown sometime around Christmas every year, and now with all the babies/kids we have to rent a house nearby. The venue this last Christmas was a big old house right on the Boquet River. It had a big fireplace […]
In Jonathan Dickinson State Park, you can take a boat tour up the Loxahatchee River to the old Trapper Nelson camp. (We saw a gator!) I’m not usually one for tours, but the guide this particular day was outstanding. Or maybe I just really liked his accent.
When I teach freshmen theory, I like to spend quite a bit of time on two-part counterpoint. I print out copies of Fux’s Gradus ad Parnassum and we read through the Platonic dialog in class. The whole thing is full of stuff like this:
Last fall we took a trip out to California for our friend Chelsea’s wedding and to visit some other friends back in Berkeley. At the end of the trip, on the way back to the Sacramento airport (and after the requisite stop at In-N-Out), it was getting a little late and close to our flight […]