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The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski episodes

April 27, 2022 SSAB - April 27 2022
Finished Interior Chinatown. Brings up some good points.
JP Getty taking over oil companies (had never been done before him), Elon Musk taking over Twitter, how can a regular person take over a company? What would I take over? AI, robotics, education and the metaverse.
NAT tests - the block beside us got locked down
Back to Michio Kaku - electrons as probabilities?
Indian food for dinner because... you never know when it could end.
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com.
Stay safe out there!
28 min
April 26, 2022 SSAB - April 26 2022
Sluggish day, heavy pollution yesterday so was all congested
Got through the runs but not much more
Work tomorrow... from home
Lockdowns spread. Creeping closer!
Spent an hour trying to get After Effects to talk to my other programs and it wouldn't. Eech.
Updated the website and created a Projects page. Jamuary, March Motion, etc.
Put up the FULL track listing for Jamuary and December Drumming, now available on Spotify. Show pones n tow fotes on stevensirski.com. Don't get locked down!
27 min
April 26, 2022 Jamuary 2022 - FULL ALBUM
Here be the full track listing for my Jamuary 2022 Song-A-Day Challenge. From beat boxing to EDM to digital garage jams to global sounds, this was a mix of styles and inspirations. Much different from last year's, this year's efforts focused on building something a bit more "cinematic", that is, something I could possibly use as a film soundtrack or something.
Track listing is as follows:
01 - Jamuary 2022 - Intro (Are You Ready)
02 - Jamuary 2022 - Building Beats
03 - Jamuary 3 2022 - Automate This (Band)
04 - Jamuary 4 2022 - 808 Cafe
05 - Jamuary 2022 - European Film Soundtrack
06 - Jamuary 2022 - WTF are you doing
07 - Jamuary 2022 - Beat Boxin Claps
08 - Jamuary 2022 - Soundtrack
09 - Jamuary 2022 - Natural Soundtrack
10 - Jamuary 10, 2021 - Ideas from a Phone
11 - Jamuary 11 2022 - Taiko Drumming Soundtrack
12 - Jamuary 2022 - Global Sounds
13 - Jamuary 2022 - Spitty Metal Beat Box
14 - Jamuary 2022 - BeatBoxDance
15 - Jamuary 15 2022 - Banging Out a Beat
16 - Jamuary 2022 - Stellar Sunday Mix
17 - Jamuary 2022 - Weeping Erhu
18 - Jamuary 18 2022 - Steven Tries to SpeakEasy
19 - Jamuary 19, 2022 - Holding Keys
20 - Jamuary 20, 2022 - Latin Beats
21 - Jamuary 2022 - Table Top Hand Beat
22 - Jamuary 2022 - Beijing Riding
23 - Jamuary 2022 - DnB Tryout
24 - Jamuary 2022 - Playing on the Piano
25 - Jamuary 2022 - Strings
26 - Jamuary 2022 - Steven’s Strings
27 - Jamuary 27, 2022 - Jamming Around
28 - Jamuary 2022 - A Chinese Soundtrack
29 - Jamuary 2022 - Japanese Koto Track
30 - Jamuary 2022 - Sunday Lazy Beatz
31 - Jamuary 2022 - Gong Xi Ni Inspired
1 hr
April 26, 2022 December Drumming 2021 - FULL ALBUM
This here is the FULL ALBUM for my December Drumming 2021 challenge. You'll find all of the music tracks here uninterrupted. For commentary, go to https://www.stevensirski.com/december-drumming. Track Listening is as follows:
1) Ride Cymbal
2) Drum Solo - Track 5
3) Potent Club Beat
4) Phone Tap Bap
5) Chinese 909
6) Snare Solo
7) Fake Live Drum Beat
8) Pen Tap
9) Hands on a Desk
10) ka bffvvvmn dum bfvdadumdum
11) Drum Rudiments
12) Mixed Beats
13) Garbage Bin Bang
14) Pens and Cups
15) Snap and Claps
16) Drum Beat Rhythm
17) Arkan on a Desk
18) One-Handed Drum Beat
19) Found Snare
20) Beat Boxin
21) Claps
22) One Finger Pots and Pans
23) Just Rockin' Out
24) Drumming for a Baby
25) Shchedryk
26) Don't Want to Work!
27) Lap Slapping
28) Automate This (Drummer)
29) Famous Drum Beats
30) Breathes, Breaths and Stops
31) Automate This (Beat)
1 hr 8 min
April 25, 2022 SSAB - April 25 2022
Beijing locked down! Well.... only a part of it.
Passport in, mid-May completion and then need to renew visa.
If lockdowns continue, what will I do? Still able to work from home.
Started a new YouTube channel! Will focus on language acquisition.
After Effects continues, getting easier.
Gearing up for May You Make Your Movie. Let's hope it doesn't suck!
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com.
Have a happy and healthy Monday!
25 min
April 22, 2022 SSAB - April 22 2022
Betty Crocker Devil's Food Cake Mix! Two of them! Added flax and chia seeds to nutrition it up a little. JP Getty, Interior Chinatown, reading these two books is a bit of a contrast.
Wearing a suit blazer from my grandfather, I look so professional now!
Walk at lunch time and was able to do some Chinese listening but not much more.
After Effects working faster! But still pretty slow. Working on some logos for folks. If you know anyone who needs a logo, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com. Have a good weekend!
26 min
April 21, 2022 SSAB - April 21 2022
Look what I found! A pic taken exactly 5 years ago to apply for my current job! A drop of 16kg: 94 to 78. Nuitrition, working out, not lifting heavy, and mobility.
How many homeworkers wear pants during work hours?
Chinese HSK 5 books
-first read through DONE
-writing out characters (still need 1-16)
-Grammar & exercises (still need 14-18, 19-36)
-Writing 100 characters about each topic (1-36)
Still using Skritter for writing practice.
Passport application filled in, appointment set for Monday
After Effects: really taking some time as the layout is a lot more complicated than Motion. And again, unless you know the shortcuts, these take just a little bit longer.
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
Have a good day!
27 min
April 20, 2022 SSAB - April 20 2022
420! Tee hee... and that's all it's really good for. Homeworking continues, and working out a viable structure to my day. Why can't I get any language studies done during work days? Was able to get some Chinese character writing done. Spoke too soon about Skritter? Unlike my previous character writing wherein I copied the character as I saw, Skritter doesn't show the character unless you ask it to. Good memory practice!
Interior Chinatown... interesting book but I can't help but feel the whole book is some indirect inditement of movie and TV production in the US. Certainly the flashes of horror aren't made up, but certainly there are success storiea and this book just decided to focus on the racial profiling that has been said to permeate the US entertainment industry.
Will we ever be able to celebrate our differences? Easier said than done I suppose. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com. Have a good one!
28 min
April 19, 2022 SSAB - April 19 2022
First day of home working while living abroad!
EVisas, are they still a thing?
Experience was...?
Running after work hampered by sitting so long or because I ate too late in the day? Could just go for a leg-stretching walk after work.
Like a party but no one else involved.
Reading Interior Chinatown, just want to get through it, but it is a decent read. No Chinese done today but that's because I have to figure out a system to incoporate it.
The philosophy of "home" working...
Technology: making us more productive but isolating us at the same time. Is it the same across the aboard or are there strengths and weaknesses we have to take into consideration?
Show toes n cratks on stevensirski.com.
Hope your Tuesday was productive!
26 min
April 18, 2022 SSAB - April 18 2022
To the Great Wall (Badaling section)
Why did we go? To take the sakura train, otherwise known as the zigzag train that is supposed to go through a valley of sakura trees. The problem? The sakuras are kinda done now.
So we went to the Great Wall
Why so steep? Did they have rails to assist soldiers getting up and down the slopes?
Thinking might go to other sections
Noticeable difference in air quality from Great Wall to 'the city', an hour out.
Happy Easter!
Chinese reading - tomorrow or the next day will tackle Chapter 36, last one
Need to gather references and send in passport. May just mail it in to save time.
Working from home this week, but lockdowns continue across the country. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com. Have a good week! Christos Voskres!
27 min