I didn't sleep very well last night and so didn't get up early, either. I did walk down to recycle the cardboard and buy challah at the local bakery before breakfast, though.
I taught 4 units of Berlitz lessons today: 10:00-11:30 and 11:30-1:00.
We ate our traditional Friday lunch at Il Pentolino.
I evaluated the final projects of 5 of my classmates in Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists. Two of them were really, really interesting and took full advantage of some of the cool capabilities of ChucK.
Shortly before the sun went down, we lit candles, drank a bit of sweet red wine, and ate whole-wheat challah to welcome the Shabbat. Pascal, our Israeli cat, also joins us in making Shabbat. What HE likes, though, are the pieces of rolled oats and small black seeds that are on the outside of the challah. I also give him some additional rolled oats that I have. This makes him very happy!
This evening, I went back and listened to all the project that I submitted for the class. I also made a small change to allow more variations in the lengths of the melody notes in my final project, and I found, somewhat to my surprise, that it makes the results even MORE interesting. I think my next step will be to make the choices of beginning and ending notes and chords for phrases somewhat random and then setting it in an infinite loop of of 4-measure phrases. Maybe I can even figure out a way to make it stream on the web from some kind of host site. Wouldn't that be cool?
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