Sunday, 3 September 2017

I got up quite late this morning, but I went out for a fairly decent morning walk anyway. I walked up into the nearby hills and took a few pictures, one of which is today's pic of the day, showing the beauty of the desert a few minutes before sunrise:

I did some grocery shopping this morning and went into town in the middle of the day on a couple of short errands.

For lunch, I had a beet, a salad, and weenies and cheese wrapped in tortillas.

I spent most of the rest of the day working on my final project for my online class, "Pro Tools Basics". I exported the MIDI tracks of my orchestral arrangement of "Avinu Malkenu" from Digital Performer and them imported them into Pro Tools First, assigning them to appropriate digital instruments there. Then I transposed the piece into a key that was more comfortable for my voice (really, really easy to do in a computer!) and recorded myself singing the song. I made a mistake in the first take, and it was also too loud, so I did a second take, which is much better. Now, I'm going back through the week 5 videos and refining the mix and adding digital effects. The end result should be quite nice, although I'm not there yet.

In the evening, I took the bus over to Hannah's house to go to our play-reading group, which she's joining. She had only been there once before, so she wasn't at all sure she could find the place.

I walked a total of 5.8 kilometers today.