Kuhlau Flute Duet

8 years ago I got a wonderful "cube" called a Whisper Room off Craigslist to put in the garage and have my own space to practice flute and try not to wake the babes.  I think it was one night soon after (maybe even that first week!) I recorded an entire CD's worth of some favorite music and told myself I would "work" on it and make a real CD.  That's been my New Year's resolution ever since.

A couple of weeks ago I was talking to Mark about how I thought again...this year...it's not going to happen.  After a few years of also reading cooking blogs, I thought, wow, maybe the answer isn't to be perfect, but just to get something out there, learn in the process, and take a different approach towards making that CD (now a relic of an idea) and do a blog a la all those home chefs changing the culinary arts scene.

He said that was a good idea, and I should probably just record every day (ha!) and take the best recording at the end of the week and post it.  I said, but....I don't get to play every day, and sometimes the most I could do is play my scales.  He said, "Don't play your scales.  Just record."  Are you laughing yet? Well, he had a point because after I hemmed and hawed just a bit more he said, what do you do after you play your scales?  And there it was, I usually just play them again and then again.  I like scales.

So....this is happening.  I'm going to post a flute diary where I sometimes have played my scales, and sometimes not.  Forget the cold fingers, the bird squeaks (lots of bird noises in there from our two parrots), the dog bumping into the wall, the kids, the neighbor's lawn mowers and blowers...I'm going to see if I can move beyond "that's not good enough" and find something I really like the sound of.  I hope.  I need to improve technical aspects of recording as well as my own playing, so feel free to comment or suggest.

I am so fortunate to have Mark supporting me, but I'll admit that the biggest element of his support is the critique.  If you have a remark that you'd like to send to just me, feel free to email me at amelia.archer@gmail.com, but otherwise you can comment here or on the soundcloud file.  That would be great.

Here's the first post: