Misc 5 - Practise log

I was playing around with my mic to record an excerpt from a book I bought at a charity shop recently. The cover caught my eye but the content convinced the purchase. Vanity aside, I really wanted to improve my announciation and pronounciation. I'm sure most people can't stand the sound of their voice but I find difficulty in reading without rushing and sounding like I am speaking complete gibberish. The accent doesn't help this unintelligible mess; a weird mixture of american twang, a vague sense of british-ness (?) and third-world southeast asian pigeon - symptoms from being slightly (read: a lot) autistic and raised by television.

Anyway, here I was practising the cello, half wondering if I should start attending weekly lessons instead of the measly fortnight classes and it dawned on me that I was mere seconds from pushing the record button. So here goes:



I've got an older recording somewhere in that Soundcloud account and I daren't press the play button for fear that I've gotten worse. Still, I figured it was time for an update on my progress. Very soon, no, actually it's now 19 days past the 4 year mark since I started on this journey.

Wow. Four. Years.

I suppose it is about time I join an orchestra or something. It was never one of the things I strived to do when I first started but it's not like I wasn't actively thinking about it. It's just - they all seem so stuffy. Of course I could be very wrong and they are all lovely beyond imagination but I'm rather very, very disagreeable with stuffy. In fact, you could probably say I'm the anti-stuff.

Which is why this ensemble peaked my interest. Particularly this section of their ethos:



That's just amazing. I've yet to find anything similar on any of the orchestras I've been researching so hopefully, with a bit of luck, spit and polish, I could maybe be good enough to join this ensemble. If they'll let me :}