It might not seem like much to some of you who have just wandered onto my website from Zanzibar, but I feel the need to pat myself of the back.

A couple of weeks ago I managed to effect another of the great transitions here at Pianonoise, that being the jump to video.

I know, it sounds kind of cro-magnon.

I don't mean I'd never heard of it before, and I'm not that old. I don't have problems using my microwave, for instance.

Over the past couple of years I've managed to livestream recitals, and post videos on social media. And of course I've been running this website on my own for nearly two decades, recording most of the audio files myself, and fixing coding mistakes when needed (I use a WYSIWYG editor which means I don't have to laboriously tell the computer what to do in its own language line by line, but sometimes the software is a little dense and then I have to go fix things as if I knew how to code and its then that my background as a 10 year old video game designer comes in handy even if those computers are long gone!)

But I hadn't actually managed to post videos on the site, nor create the kind that you might record and edit not as a live concert stream but as a thing engineered. 

Naturally I chose the week before Christmas to do this