Erfindungen, die die Welt nicht braucht...

Patent 962 : Der Multimedia-Kamin

just 'nother bout of music

I hardly believe it myself, but I had a few hours with my piano these days, which I used to experiment with a few instrumental tracks.
Finally I got around to make a kind of compound of 4 of my demo outtakes, which can be heard in my myspace profile as of now.

Furthermore I just made a rough mixup of a few Elton John covers I recorded from time to time, which can be downloaded here. More info on why the sound sucks so much can be found in this myspace blog entry.

I also had the chance to do some interesting new stuff : I recorded a piano segment for a quite cool track ("inquisitors") created by paul garcia, a spanish musician (www.paul-garcia.com). I'm not sure if it will ever be available for public listening, but I'll keep you updated.

So, I get to do things, but hardly have the time to improve my recording quality...well, this life's still got some days in it for me, I hope...

php5 likes transitive access levels?

When working on a singleton class in php, I noticed a funny behaviour.
The following code will lead to an error

Access level to B::__construct() must be public (as in class A)

class A
{
 public function __construct(){}
}
class B extends A
{
 private function __construct()
 {
  parent::__construct();
 }
}
$B = new B();
?>

Weird...

Yet another CD recommendation

Richie Sambora, who probably makes most of his fame by working in the Bon Jovi Band, has made some really good solo stuff in the 90s and probably before (I don't know). As far as I'm concerned, this is the best I've heard from him.

Check out my favourite track [Hard times come easy] from this album

Halleluia...

...is what I recorded two days ago and finished last night.
It's a nice song, written by rufus wainwright. check it out on www.myspace.com/edelmeier

edit : that's what happens if you don't inform yourself. the song was originally written by the man himself : Leonard Cohen

Yadda Yadda!

all's clearing up.spring is due, the air is full of birdsong, and the sun comes out more daringly.
we have moved and, despite all the remaining work, are happy to live through the year in our new home.The kids love it, and so do we.
I'm in a mood i can only call positive, although my laziness draws me to my PS2 rather than to the good-old PC in the evening hours. I'm taking some timeouts, which is a healthy thing, if I'm any judge.

Last friday, March 16th, I visited CeBIT with Steve and Roberto, which was a fun trip, but only little revealing on the products side. Seeing all those Chinese (sorry for summing up taiwan, PROC and HK like that) fair booths really made me consider opening up a cableshop and selling those cheap imports...The idea is dead, though.

My music production has suffered severely, but I spent a few evenings with my Clavinova and made up or refined some of my ideas, so that now I've got a pretty close-to-the-intended version of "Holding Back (What Walls Can't Hold)" ready for recording and a more concrete idea of "New Beginning". The mood of the former is also defined, the instruments are picked, now it's just a matter of time.
Another song called "Sands Of Time" is in it's early stages of being written, got chords, melody and first verse. it will be written as a duet.