{"id":201,"date":"2020-09-15T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taurlin.org\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2021-01-01T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:41:22","slug":"portfolio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taurlin.org\/?page_id=201","title":{"rendered":"Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compositions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have composed a number of tunes mainly in the Scottish traditional idiom. I will keep on adding sheetmusic here as I get more things scanned &#8212; which is a bit of a challenge during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Heartbreak Waltz<\/strong> &#8212; my somewhat angry and simple first tune. Accordingly the sheetmusic is a bit unideal.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/taurlin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sydansuruvalssi.pdf\">sheetmusic [pdf]<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Walking Back Home from Douglas and Jane-Anne&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8212; a scottishce I wrote while doing what the name says.<\/li><li><strong>Drying Acorns<\/strong> &#8212; the first tune I ever started writing but one that took a while to finish. The idea for the name came from a conversation with Nigel Gatherer while he was giving me a lift to the Slow Session at Leslie&#8217;s bar.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/taurlin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Drying_Acorns.pdf\">sheetmusic [pdf]<\/a><\/li><li><strong>Walking on a Foggy Hill<\/strong> &#8212; a tune I wrote for Caitlin on her 30th birthday. Name comes from an evening walk we once did on Isle of Arran.<\/li><li><strong>Up too Late \/ Finishing my PhD<\/strong> &#8212; a tune about frantic writing late at night. Several nights and weeks and months (maybe even years) in a row.<\/li><li><strong>Sun Comes out at Crianlarich Station<\/strong> &#8212; a slow air that came to me while standing on the platform of Crianlarich Station.<\/li><li><strong>Time &amp; Tide, Space &amp; Distance<\/strong> &#8212; a slightly weird feeling tune in that it is not very traditional in its structure. I wrote this one in the <em>Unlocking our Sound Heritage Workshop 1<\/em> with a method that interprets alphabet into musical notes.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/taurlin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Time_and_Tide_Space_and_Distance-scaled.jpeg\">sheetmusic [jpeg]<\/a><\/li><li>With more to come as time goes by.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caol C\u00f9 &#8212; our band<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a band called Caol C\u00f9 (Scottish Gaelic for &#8216;Dog Straits&#8217; after the Finnish nature centre at Koirasalmi) with Samuli Karjalainen. In the band I play tin whistles and similar instruments and Samuli plays guitar and whistles. The band plays mainly Scottish folk music in a mainly Scottish style. Videos from the band can be found on the band&#8217;s  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCR2pxADXERJv6v30mr_io9g\">youtube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am writing two books on walking. The first one describes the Journeyman&#8217;s Walks (Finnish Kis\u00e4llinmatkat) that I am about to undertake, and the second one is my take on some philosophical matters relating to wandering and walking. I will translate both books to Finnish once they are completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A draft of the first two chapters of the Journeyman&#8217;s Walks <a href=\"https:\/\/taurlin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/portfolio_snippet_Oct_2020.pdf\">[pdf]<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music Compositions I have composed a number of tunes mainly in the Scottish traditional idiom. I will keep on adding sheetmusic here as I get more things scanned &#8212; which is a bit of a challenge during the pandemic. 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