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Discovered a composer group

minim — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:04:10 +0000

Very excited! I was hoping to find a composer group in London and this one does – it sounds – pretty much what I want: meetups to talk through new works and problems and occasional special events focusing on a particular topic. Yay!

Sent two scores off to Germany

minim — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:55:18 +0000

For consideration for the Borealis Festival in Norway in March – they wanted solo pieces of less than a minute long, and as I almost seem to specialise in the miniature, it wasn’t too hard to find something – even though I only found the call at about 10pm and the deadline was today. Thank heavens for email submission! So I’ve sent Egg the Eighth (one of the 2 by 4 two-part inventions) and the second Whitman song off to them – with the Festival so soon, I guess I won’t have long to wait to see if they like them!

A bonus with this is that I get to strike another thing off my 2010 goals list. Woot!

First steps towards producing a CD

minim — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:31:32 +0000

Emailed a pianist friend to see if he’s interested in helping me create a CD of my piano music. Exciting!

Thoughts on a website

minim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:43:16 +0000

Began to pull together some ideas (again) about how I want to tackle my new website. I’ve started this a couple of times but this feels meatier and more like it has a chance of making it to the coding phase.

Did a bit more on my new portfolio site

minim — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:19:57 +0000

Got the CSS3 rounded corners happening! plus a few additions. I think I need to streamline the jQuery a bit and the whole design may yet change, but I’m quite pleased with progress, overall.

Playing round with Tumblr

minim — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:33:40 +0000

I’ve heard a lot about Tumblr floating round on the internet and it sounded quite interesting as a place for accumulating all one’s assorted randomness in one place. I’m not sure what the potential audience for it would be. I suspect it might be more useful as a way for me to keep an eye on how dull I’m being, but chi.mp didn’t turn out to be particularly interesting or useful and I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with that. Tumblr seems to cover more ground and results in more of a native feel when combining streams from various services, so we’ll see. http://caitlinrowley.tumblr.com.

Received and watched the first cut of the film about me

minim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:58:32 +0000

The one the Creative Spaces project filmed at the Tate and my “studio” (ahem) back in December. I actually sound like a Proper Artist. Feeling pretty good about myself now

Completed my online portfolio

minim — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Well, phase 1 anyway. The next phase is to work on putting actual code in there, not just screensnaps.

Did some more work on my online portfolio

minim — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:08:00 +0000

Nearly there now. Just need to test in IE6, review the content and upload.

Played about with colourlovers.com

minim — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:30:00 +0000

Agents have been telling me for a while that I should have an online portfolio so clients can see the sort of web work I’m capable of, but up till now I haven’t really had any examples of what I’ve done still online, so I started designing one, and in working out the colour palette to use, I thought I should start tinkering with colourlovers.com. And what a cool site! The only thing it seems to lack is the ability to shift a shade to its nearest web-safe tone, but apart from that it’s a brilliant way to look at colours up close to each other and set up a palette for a site or another sort of design or whatever and save it for future reference… and download the palette for import straight into Photoshop or Illustrator or whatever’s swatches feature. Brilliant. I can see this being a very useful tool for years to come. It doesn’t like Safari though…