Had an excellent conversation with a co-worker who it turned out used to be a good pianist and almost went to music school – he’s really keen to hear my music and we had a great conversation, chatting about this and that about music and Australia. All very encouraging – it’s always nice to have people be so enthusiastic about hearing my work, and especially when they do know about music rather than just being randomly positive (although that’s nice too, of course!)

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Working my way through Writings on Music still. Really excellent, thought-provoking stuff. I didn’t have very much time to read much though as I had to work through my lunch hour and then fell asleep on the train on the way home, so just read a bit about Reich’s experiences learning African drumming in Ghana.

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