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My first class: Tuesday! That's closer than I thought, but it will be just an introductory session, nothing heavy. I also know my teaching schedule now: Tuesday morning classes, and individual lessons Tuesday afternoon. That's it! The rest of the week is prep time. That sure beats the daily corporate grind I was used to.

The school had a clever solution for the issue of communicating half a world away during their vacation time (during which we would have nailed down exactly what the course(s) would be). My class has a really generic title, something like "Digital audio applications," and with that, I can do basically whatever I want. While I would dearly love to teach SuperCollider, that may be too much too quickly, so I suppose Max/MSP it will be. There are plenty of good reasons, mainly that Max/MSP is more facile at the kinds of things audio-programming beginners will want to do, such as wiring up graphic and MIDI interfaces for parameters. Supercollider can do it too, but first you have to understand SynthDef control inputs and GUI widget callback functions. The connection is "invisible," in a way, harder for students to see, touch and understand. At this early stage, I'd rather focus on audio manipulation than programming details.

Composition: My code demos are coming together nicely, just in time. I dread the final push for the KC performance, but it'll happen -- one step at a time, and simplify, simplify, simplify.

It's now late in the afternoon, almost time for dinner. Time for a rest, no heavy lifting tonight.