Peter’s Raw Materials

Category: Documentary

  • Meta-Meta-Meta

    Meta-Meta-Meta
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    Somehow, over the course of the past year or so, playing, writing and publishing music seems to have turned into a real thing in my world. It is now my ‘main gig’. Which means that my programming, graphics and other related activities usually have to wait until I’m done practicing. Working on my computer skills is now a hobby of sorts. To that end I felt drawn back to a project I had started over 20 years ago. For a few years in…

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  • The Parabola of Life

    The Parabola of Life
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    Around 2006 I read a book by Ray Kurzweil called “Fantastic Voyage”. Somebody had recommended it. There are many suggestions in there about how to lead a healthier life and how to live long enough to get in on the “singularity”. Kurzweil is part of a group of people who believe that technological developments will rapidly accelerate towards a point when there will be true artificial or machine intelligence and, more specifically, when it will be possible to upload a complete human consciousness…

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  • The morning-after-blues

    The morning-after-blues
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    This past week I was brutally reminded why being a musician is so hard. It’s not because of the need to practice (although you have to do that.) It’s not because you basically starve if you have no other job, or your spouse loves you very much and has a good gig with health insurance. It’s not really because it often sucks hunting down gigs and then often end up playing at venues that are “wrong” for what you play – although we are…

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  • Restoring my first electric guitar

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    Last week I finally finished the restoration of my first electric guitar. A Framus S370 – basically a German Gibson SG copy. I didn’t quite find out when this was built – probably very early 1970s. I bought it used from Musik Ecke in Albstadt, West Germany. When I opened the rear cover I found the original invoice which dates my purchase to November 1974. This guitar was in great shape when I got it. Then, a few years later, I decided to…

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  • Legoland – which part don’t you understand?

    When I grew up in Germany during the 1960s and early 70s there was hardly any programming on TV. Computers? Internet? Yeah, right! But there were LEGOs. Practically every kid I knew had a box full. I had a big box. And every day after coming home from school and finishing my homework I just built stuff. At that time there wasn’t quite such a huge selection of different LEGO elements as there is today. But we still built airplanes, ships, castles, spaceships,…

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