As well as the diaries of Kafka, I'm reading the autobiography of industrial designer, Tom Karen. Amazingly, I discover that the two may be related. Kafka's uncle was married to a Prague Kohn, and Tom Karen's father's family were Kohn's from Czechoslovakia.
Both are inspiring in different ways, I feel a connection to both, perhaps more to Kafka, as perhaps I share an isolation. I am beyond comfortable when alone, for me it is a refuge from anxiety. Karen was a lone refugee, but took part in many things, formed connections and forged a path. I have done this too at times. Perhaps I can again. I seem to have extreme Apollonian and Dionysian personalities, sometimes a mix, sometimes either, but Apollo will take over if a Dionysian extreme threatens health or wellbeing. I can often be manic in a busy work or anxious sense, but never in an unhealthy excess sense, and never depressive.
The Love Reliquary gold is complete. I had a thought that the God Being Killed frame might not be lacquered or varnished in entirety. Some parts are (certainly the figures in the centre of the arch, and I probably added more varnish to other areas), but I failed to record how much and when I did this. If the metal browns, it may be better, as the gold is very bright and I like the idea of a natural decay, so this may suit the artwork, providing the decay is pretty like the browning of copper, and uniform.
I should be writing my short story but yesterday diverged. I've updated Prometheus to v3.80 with little settings for the silence level and length, a setting which was called zerosamples. This feature will shut off a track after so much time of silence to save processing time. A note will re-activate it. These settings set the level and time considered silence. By default I consider one 16-bit sample or lower (somewhere around -50dB) for 1 second silence, but audiobook pauses after noise-gating can lead to longer pauses, hence this setting.
I also tried to fix some aliasing artifacts in my noise gate. Mine is a 'perfect' gate, but I hear slight distorting artifacts as the signal crosses the threshold. I think my processing it too stark and digital. The one in SoundForge seems to add some noise to help mitigate the transitions over the threshold. I also finally framed the 'owl painting' which I have been repairing. This is all a distraction. I should be forging forwards. I, like Kafka in Oct 1911, must write (he did not, the entries so far of a frustrated procrastinator; yet there was a lot of energy and literary sparkle in his diaries).
Much of the last week has been integrating into the Oil Art Advisory, and my works today appear in their newsletter. One exciting element of forging.
Onwards.
