Snow over the Eastern Seaboard

Made a long trek from Istanbul to Jamestown, Rhode Island via Frankfurt, Amsterdam, a bonus stop in Detroit instead of Newark and Hartford, Connecticut. Here to prepare for an audio/visual performance with Duncan Laurie at the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts in Minneapolis.

Fog in Frankfurt delayed my flight almost an hour…eating up the precariously short layover time I had in Amsterdam. Couple that with the plane taxiing in from one of the far runways, seeming to circle the whole airport and my outbound flight leaving from the opposite end of the massive Schipol Airport…and you have me getting to the gate as the walkway was freshly pulled back from the plane. It sat there taunting me for some time as the gate staff arranged an alternate route through Detroit that only added 20 minutes to my flight schedule.

Had 40 minutes of delay coming out of Detroit for de-icing. Got into Hartford at midnight. Duncan had opted out of getting me that night, choosing instead to come and get me in the morning. Found a nearby hotel that wasn’t terribly outrageous, $55 for the night. Crashed out and fell almost immediately to sleep. Up in the morning to find it snowing. Duncan was by around 10am. Took the windy back roads across Connecticut and Rhode Island to reach Jamestown. Snowed all the way. Only go stuck behind one plow.

Started into work as soon as we could get up to the studio. Both Duncan and Gordon had had trouble getting up the road recently. Spent the first evening working with the IBVA and a stone bowl and the RockStar. Had a long session with Gordon the following day working on the Doepfer Pocket Control that was the interface to a multi-sensor input device he was building from scratch.