#3goodthings 1. Got my #ifs Level 2 certificate. 2. Used new techniques in the therapy room. 3. Dared to reach out and ask for help when I was severely triggered.

I need a webcam that can be mounted on my laptop. The build-in is crap. Any suggestions? #askmastodon

#3goodthings Today: 1. Went on a short trip with my partner to pick up the car we left behind after New Year because of all the snow. The weather was beautiful, everything covered in snow and warming sun. 2. I and my partner visited her mother and it was really nice. I learned a few things […]

#3goodthings yesterday (I forgot to post): 1. I had a beer with an acquaintance. We talked for hours, shared life stories with emotional depth. I could talk about me and my relationship without having to explain lots of things. I think we're going to be friends. 2. I went home and played […]

Where do I find, or how do I easily create, an empty PDF music sheet in A5 format? There are lots of alternatives out there on the internet but all of them are letter or A4 size. #askmastodon

#3goodthings 1. #stockholm is beautiful in snow. 2. I was dead tired this afternoon but managed to turn that around by... eating. (Something is wrong here, I shouldn't be that exhausted.) 3. My new 4-over-3 composition now sits in my fingers. Will try to record it this weekend.

The view from my window. #goodthings

#goodthings today was that I decided not to go to a party. I was tired and stressed. Instead, I went to the swimming pool, exercised, took a sauna, went home, cooked a proper meal and listened to music. I had more energy than I usually have and lo and behold, all my annoying avoidance just […]

Today I came home to my tiny apartment after a week away. I feel safe here. We left the car and took the train because of the weather. I took a nap in the sofa when I came home. And I managed to realise I was overwhelmed earlier today and asked my partner for help. She told me to go out and do […]

Listening to #leprous debut album, Tall Poppy Syndrome (2009), and am surprised how good it is. #metal #progressivemetal

My project for 2026: learn Etude no 11 by Philip Glass. https://tidal.com/browse/track/332490628?u I guess that would force this old piano player into shape… #piano #philipglass

Watching The Witcher S4. Incredibly bad scripting and acting. Why am I doing this? #masochism

Spending the evening at the local pub listening to live jazz. They should do this thing more often than twice a year or whatever it is.

I've just bought monitors and note stand to my Nord Piano. On my way home now. Oh, am I going to spend the rest of the day playing piano, or what?

Why hasn't anyone created an #android app that opens #spotify and other music service links in #odesli and allows you to open then in another music service, possibly automating the translation of Spotify links to #tidal links? Seems like a brilliant idea and simple to do.

[The Witcher S4 complaints, spoilers] Who wrote the script for The Witcher season 4? ChatGPT? My god how terrible it is. A surreal burn-the-witch scene as borrowed directly from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, but totally without humour. And then nilfgardians showing up making no sense at all […]

How many women are there in progressive metal? Most bands I am aware of are blokes, blokes and blokes.

I saw the first episode of #thewitcher season 4. Let's just say I'm not overwhelmed.

No doubt Víkingur Ólafsson listened to Glenn Gould. https://tidal.com/browse/album/319058786?u

I want to listen to music but I'm fed up with everything I usually listen to. I want something new. I think I want simple, beautiful music, but I'm not sure. Maybe I want to find a growling progressive metal band? Any suggestions?

Heading for a concert with Dhafer Youssef. #stockholmjazzfestival

I just discovered dredg.

The trombonist plays a trombone with valves… which means it can't be a trombone after all?

When you attend a jazz jam at Stampen in Stockholm and realise almost everyone is dressed like you. I guess I'm a jazz musician at heart after all.

At my office where I have my psychology clinic, there's music in the waiting room. Bad music. Some of Spotify's "relaxing classical music" crap which consists of completely uninteresting muzak. I don't have Spotify myself, so I can't fins any better lists. But maybe you can suggest a playlist […]

OMG. #musescore has turned to the worst bloatware ever. It used to be good.

Heading for a concert with #aurora and #pomme as support. This evening can't be bad.

Experienced Kamasi Washington in #stockholm yesterday. Listening to his recordings, I thought he should really be experienced live. I was right.

I need some good news in this evil times lest I shall succumb to hopelessness and depression.

I'm stuck with #reaper again. I have installed #liquidsfz #soundfont player. It works just fine when I use a piano soundfont with just one sound. But when I load a GM soundfont, It's silent, and I have no idea how to select a bank and program from the soundfont. Help? #linux #askmastodon #askfedi

Went to a jazz jam nearby. I think we were 12 musicians playing. We were three piano players but only two would fit at the piano at the same time. 🙂

Oh. I found this web page called Reaper Tips. What a gold mine for newbies like me! https://www.reapertips.com/post/10-tips-for-writing-midi-drums-in-reaper #reaper #linux

Playing around with DrumGizmo. Or rather, not playing anything at all yet. Just trying to understand how things works.

I started watching His Dark Materials because my partner's daughter recommended it. In the beginning, I thought it was a TV series for children. I was wrong. It's actually good.

Avishai Cohen Trio - The Ever and Ever Evolving Etude https://youtu.be/YHYiumfg_So #nowplaying #jazz

#spotify donated $150,000 to the Trump inauguration. #tidal donated $1,500,000 to BLM 2016. Go figure.

Is there a #foss alternative to all those paid services that move playlists from #spotify to #tidal?

So OMM gas released an album with Philip Glass playing his own works on solo piano. I have only listened to a few pieces yet. First, Glass is a terrible piano player. Second, those versions are significantly different from other recordings and official scores. Truman Sleeps, for example […]

Next #reaper on #linux project: a soft synth drum kit. I suppose I need some kind of #vst instrument? #askfedi #music #linuxaudio

I have used Facebook comments on my blog but I want to replace it with something else, for obvious reasons. Disqus is more or less the only alternative I know of. What other alternatives are there? #askmastodon #askfediverse #askbluesky

I've got significant lag when I route #midi through #reaper to the MIDI instrument and it's completely unplayable. Any idea how to fix this lag?

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (By the art activist collective Led By Donkeys).

Argh. Slight #latency when using #midi with #reaper on #linux. How do I deal with latency?

Is there someone out there who knows how to set up #focusrite #scarlett sound cards with #linux and #reaper? Or at least can point me in the right direction?

Trying to learn how this bloody sound card works. I've managed to reroute input to output du I can actually hear what I'm playing. Next step, trying to get something into Reaper. I've never used Reaper. In fact, I haven't used any music recording equipment since Cubase 2.0 on Atari ST. Learning […]

On my way home with the cables I bought last Friday. I'll finally be able to play with the Scarlett 4i4 I bought weeks ago.

I bought a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 today only to realise it doesn't have MIDI in/out. #fail

I created some music. This work is for violin, cello and piano and was actually commissioned by the Italian violin player Marco Modigo who asked me for something he could play with his students. It's for violin, cello and piano. I have kept the violin part simple as it is for a beginner. The […]

So this is the year when Trump begins his second presidency. We'll see how this goes.

I and my partner booked a cottage for two days to get some time for creative work. She's working on her novel and I'm trying to compose music.