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this music from last night

April 13, 2011 By Steven Halls

I was feeling melancholy last night (April 13, 2011), and here’s what it was like, ( me, improv piano, 5MB mp3 files) Halls – Audio_003   Halls – Audio_004

Aug 8 update: you might also like this sweet little guitar-sound tune, or more from a different improv day, (audio_12, audio_16 but only if you’re liking this sadder complex stuff, which isn’t to everyones tastes.)

Wiggle Mouse – stickin it to the man. Mouse jiggler prevents screen saver.

April 6, 2011 By Steven Halls

Aargh. My at-work PCs are forcing a screensaver with a password after 15 minutes of inactivity. Well.. I won’t put up with that. [Read more…]

My fake hospital policy memo for April Fools day.

April 1, 2011 By Steven Halls

I sent this throughout my hospital on April 1st. [Read more…]

Force Lathe

January 5, 2011 By Steven Halls

August 10, 2011 update:
I’ve made a few things “useful” things with my lathe, but here’s my first piece of jewelery, a holder for a lucky penny.
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Small island with airstrip

November 1, 2010 By Steven Halls

Yea! I recently bought Lot #2 and subsequently Lot #3 on Hudson Island. (GPS at N 48.968, E -123.679 ). It’s in the Gulf Islands, north of Salt Spring Island, near Thetis Island, near Chemanius and Nanaimo BC.


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A long flight in Expedition E350

October 17, 2010 By Steven Halls

Here’s a post in the “Unrelated” category. Today we got up early, drove to Camrose, Alberta by sunrise, got loaded and in the air by 9am, and flew to Kamloops BC, where we refueled the plane to full tanks, and had lunch with some relatives. We invited them flying, and took off in the early afternoon, flew to Sechelt, BC and stretched our legs, then flew up Sechelt inlet to look at oceanfront properties for sale, then flew back to Kamloops. [Read more…]

E350 stall video

October 13, 2010 By Steven Halls

Another unrelated post. Here’s a video of the same kind of airplane that I have, an Expedition E350. It doesn’t stall or spin very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skH3MSKMSqQ
(That’s a good thing, meaning its a wing that self-corrects if the pilot screws up and stalls or spins the plane.) To see the HD quality, when you get to youTube, change it from 360p to 1080p, and then choose Pop-Out or Full-Screen to view it.

Here’s a video of its short takeoff distance and landings.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Kj6sdtCbjWE

Airplane (Expedition E350) self-propelled by a Trace Towbot

September 30, 2010 By Steven Halls

Here’s a video, showing my airplane, an Expedition E350, being maneuvered back into its hangar, using a cool product, a Trace Towbot. (The link is a video is in quicktime .mov format.)

When I play piano, it sounds like this.

September 30, 2010 By Steven Halls

My piano at home is a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-409. It has a record button, which lets it capture exactly what you play, and replay it, and it also lets you Save it to the USB drive. However, I was disappointed to discover that it saves .mid files (midi), which sound crappy when you play them on a PC (using the default synthesizer voices of windows media player).

However, I discovered a separate feature that records direct to the USB drive. The feature is quite limited.. simply Record ON and OFF. It stores .wav files on the USB drive, that sound quite good. However, they were huge! I used Sony SoundForge 9.0 to convert them into .mp3’s. A problem I found was that the recordings are very low volume, and when you Normalize them to increase the volume, some “wobbly pitch instability” appears in the sound.

Anyway, this post is to also test the WordPress feature of uploading music. So without furter adeu, here are a few improvised things I’ve recorded.
(Goot thing there’s no “furter” adeu, eh?)

Yes, these were all improvised at the spur of the moment, no plan beforehand.Download mp3
Audio_1Audio_1
Audio_2Audio_2
Guitar sound. This is a nice sweet little piece.Audio_3
Audio_4Audio_4
Left-hand does most of the melody here.Audio_5
(deleted Audio_6)
Audio_7Audio_7
Audio_8Audio_8
Piano sounds great, in a short simple thing.Audio_9
Audio_10Audio_10
Audio_11Audio_11
Audio_12Audio_12
Audio_14Audio_14
Audio_15Audio_15
Audio_16Audio_16
Audio_17Audio_17
Audio_18Audio_18
Audio_19Audio_19
Audio_20Audio_20
Audio_21Audio_21
Audio_22Audio_22
Audio_23Audio_23
Audio_24Audio_24

SO, some of that music sounds pretty good, maybe just to me, and not all of it it good. But I didn’t post this to show off. This post actually started because I struck up an email conversation with a fellow in Japan who shares some other interests, and we got talking about the qualities of different Yamaha keyboards. I uploaded these to give him a sample of the sound of the Clavinova. But then I decided to leave them here, at least long enough for my brother and my mother to hear, both of whom are excellent musicians.

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