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Papakonstantinou instrumental

When I ought to have been doing various kinds of weekend work, instead I was figuring out a mandolin version of a disquieting little instrumental piece by Thanasis Papakonstantinou. It’s Οργανικό (Organiko: “Instrumental”) from the album Αγία Νοσταλγία. Here’s my rendition (5M mp3); youtube has the original. Some differences you will notice: I can’t play [...]

Naked

I’ve taken the plunge, and posted my first dissertation chapter online. It’s still not quite complete (needs some transition paragraphs and general tidying up) but it’s readable and the content shouldn’t change much from here on in. It’s slightly terrifying, sending your ideas out into the wide world like this, but I think they’re solid [...]

Nose to grindstone, shoulder to wheel

I haven’t posted much lately, because I’m having a spurt of dissertatory activity (less painful than it sounds). Tomorrow I’ll present the main ideas of my thesis at the LeGO (our internal colloquium, feel free to stop by if you wanna), and next week I should have a short version of my first chapter drafted. [...]