Friday morning I returned from Oslo, I didn't sleep much on the train, mostly because of stress I think. After a quick breakfast, Sjur came by for a session on one of the final tracks for Kometkameratene season 1.
After a few hours sleep I went for christmas dinner with Brak, which was a splendid social affair. Excellent food and exquisite conversation. I noticed with interest that we used Spotify for all music listening. Which meant
1) there was a lot of great music,
2) all music we listened to came from the clouds,
3) everyone mostly found their favorite music and latest must-share release,
4) we were not limited to a local physical or digital collection.
I think it is important to notice.
Saturday was slow, exhausted from many long days, but I put in some hours on a new track I started in Oslo. It started out with only Protracker ST-disks samples, I love the dirty old 8-bit sounds, to compress the grit into focus and run it through amp models. My recent sonic addition Alchemy is a great tool for zooming into the mud of samples.
I also spent a few hours checking out Amazon AWS, mostly EC2, for cloud rental of web services. Amazon recently launched a web based management console, making it easy to launch and administrate your cloud computers. Within a few minutes I had selected, installed and launched my own webserver instance and logged in by remote desktop client. This looks like a viable alternative to physical hosting, in particular when it comes to scaling. My only caveat is that I'd rather not personally handle server and webserver administration.
I have not yet decided how to host my next web system. But I have decided to develop a solution I can technically deploy onto AWS if necessary.
Sunday was back to work, spent all day working on the final batch of Kometkameratene. Sjur is coming in tomorrow morning for a vocal session. There are six tracks left to do in season 1, to be delivered this week. It will be a hectic week, but when they are delivered I am very much looking forward to focus on Ugress 4.
