In recent times, a number of people have compared my music to Philip Glass. Specifically, they have compared my first truly minimalist piano work, the Berceuses suite, to Philip Glass.
I love Philip Glass and to be compared to him is a great compliment, but I am not writing this post in order to brag. Nor am I writing this post to correct those who have made the comparison, although the Berceuses are only superficially similar to Glass.
Rather, I’m writing this in order to... read entire post
For a long time I’ve been meaning to write something about my language learning process and never really managed it. Rather than talking about my procrastination I think I’ll just cut straight to the point this time.
I’m kind of in love with languages of all kinds, natural, programming, musical…every time I discover a new one, I want to learn it. I was developing a ridiculously long list of languages I wanted to learn, so a year ago... read entire post
I have a thing for memorising strings of numbers. I’ve committed numerous card/account/phone numbers to memory, and that’s useful as it saves having to check every time the number is needed for something. But recently I embarked on an exercise in numerical memorisation which has no practical application whatsoever.
I’ve read about people memorising so-and-so digits of pi and it always struck me as one of those... read entire post
My NaNoGenMo project started out as an attempt at parodying bad literature, inspired in part by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. I planned to take extremely cliched sentences like “It was a dark and stormy night” and use Python string formatting to... read entire post
