Our gigs, recorded on a phone
Four nights, three bedroom projects. Open it to play a set, skip between songs and read what's behind each one.
Live at Café Retro
Tapes
Setlist
Songs I still haven't finished
1. the one about the ferry
2. "Halvvejs", second verse
3. …
1. the one about the ferry: it's done, I just don't like the bridge.
2. "Halvvejs", second verse. Signe says it's fine. It's not fine.
3. A song made only of things overheard on the 5A bus.
4. An instrumental for the rowing-game soundtrack I never made.
update: the ferry one is done-ish
On playing to eleven people
Small rooms are harder than big ones. You can see every face…
Small rooms are harder than big ones. You can see every face, and every face can see your left hand. At the October gig there were eleven people and a dog, and I counted them twice during the first song.
What helped: looking at Jonas instead of the room. What didn't: the third coffee. What I'd do again: tell the story behind the song before playing it. People listen differently when they know where a song came from. That's partly why the recorder above has notes on every track.
Writing code vs. writing songs
Both are mostly deleting. One has a test suite.
Both are mostly deleting. One has a test suite.
Lately I've been working with AI tools all day (that's the other side of the site). Songwriting is where I deliberately don't. It's the one place I want to be slow and a bit bad at something.
Tracked in the Monthly Expenses Tracker, which I built for exactly this kind of thing. Third capo this year.
"The case for small software"
Read it twice. Applies to bands too.
Read it twice. The argument: things made for a few people can be made with more care. Applies to bands too. Read it →
Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
You can hear the glasses clink.
You can hear the glasses clink and someone laughing at the back. It's handcam, in 1961. This is the record that made me stop caring about clean recordings.
Every bus shelter in Denmark, photographed
Someone did it. All of them.
Someone did it. All of them. There's a map. I've spent an embarrassing amount of time on it. Have a look →
A guitar tuner that doesn't nag
No account, no ads, no subscription.
No account, no ads, no subscription. Just a needle. Link →
Egg-box foam on one wall, a broken amp nobody will throw out. We've rehearsed here every Thursday since 2023.
Taken on the way to Bornholm. I wrote the first verse on the back of the ticket.
Café Retro, March. We skipped song four and nobody noticed.
Two real oars from the Mixed-Reality Rowing Game. They live in the hallway now.