Today I didn’t have any workshops but had a meeting with a teacher from one of the schools I’m going to next month. So was really cool and just like yesterday it was great to sit down with an enthusiastic teacher, help them out and also learn some cool stuff myself! There are now a…

Today I was scheduled to have a workshop from 1 o’clock, but after chatting with the teacher last night we decided I’d go to the school and have a look at the stuff they were doing in the morning. The teacher there is really good and has some cool ideas and materials. They base their…

Off on the Shinkansen to Okayama this morning, and it was the nice Hikari with the posh seats and PC power supplies – excellent! I got picked up at the station by two teachers from today’s school and then out for lunch to a very posh Japanese restaurant with a ton of food. Then a…

I’m quite excited about doing the new CD now! Getting my laptop set up to act as a synth and songwriting tool is fantastic, there are just so many great sounds to use! I normally use dedicated music computers, which are great, but recently I just seem to have used up all the decent sounds…

Today’s two gigs were in two different cities in Fukuoka prefecture, and for both of them it was my first time in the city. So of course for this morning’s school they had no idea what I supposed to be doing, even though reps had been sent out to them and they had agreed to…

Only one school today, but after Saturday’s affair it was great to be doing a real workshop to real elementary school teachers again! This time it was 3 hours for a school that will start teaching next April and are now working out lesson plans, curricula etc. and of course running into the same problems…