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\title{Church Music Corner}
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\p{In addition to my computer science career I am also a classically-trained singer, with extensive experience in liturgical music in the Catholic and Anglican traditions.}
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\p{In addition to my computer science career I am also a classically-trained singer, with much experience in liturgical music in the Catholic and Anglican traditions.}
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\p{Currently, I sing with the Choir of [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au), located near my home in Canberra. We sing for most of the weekly Sunday Eucharist services as well as semi-regular Evensong services. I am also available for liturgical singing in and around the Canberra area. Please [get in touch](loc-0009) if you are interested. When I'm travelling away from Canberra, I have on occasion sung with the choirs at [St Peter's Eastern Hill](https://www.stpeters.org.au/) in Melbourne, [St. Michael and All Saints](https://smas.church/) and [Old St. Paul's](osp.org.uk) in Edinburgh, and elsewhere. }
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\p{Currently, I sing with (and occasionally direct) the Choir of [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au), located near my home in Canberra. We sing for most of the weekly Sunday Eucharist services as well as semi-regular Evensong services. I also sing with the secular choral group [Coro](https://www.corocanberra.com/). When I'm travelling away from Canberra, I have on occasion sung with the choirs at [St Peter's Eastern Hill](https://www.stpeters.org.au/) in Melbourne, [St. Michael and All Saints](https://smas.church/) and [Old St. Paul's](https://osp.org.uk) in Edinburgh, and elsewhere. }
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\p{I began my musical career as a treble in [St. Mary's Cathedral Choir](https://cathedralchoir.sydney/), Sydney at the age of 10. At that time, St. Mary's was under the direction of David Russell, who encouraged me to pursue my interest in medieval liturgical music. I studied Gregorian Chant semiology and performance, both independently and under the tutelage of Dr. Neil McEwan AM.}
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\p{From 2006-2010 I led the Schola Cantorum at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, performing the propers of the mass every Sunday. I also performed occasionally with many other choirs, including: the Choir of [Christ Church St. Laurence](https://ccsl.org.au/) in Sydney, the [Australian Brandenburg Choir](https://www.brandenburg.com.au/), and others. After Pope Benedict XVI's \em{Summorum pontificum}, I ran a Schola Cantorum to assist in the performance of chant propers and ordinaries in Latin masses around Sydney and later in Edinburgh, after I moved there.}
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\p{From 2006-2010 I led the Gregorian Schola Cantorum at St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, performing the propers of the mass every Sunday. I also performed occasionally with many other choirs, including the Choir of [Christ Church St. Laurence](https://ccsl.org.au/) in Sydney and the [Australian Brandenburg Choir](https://www.brandenburg.com.au/). }
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\p{In 2022 I visited the monks at the [Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes](https://www.solesmes.com/), under Dom Geoffrey Kemlin. In Edinburgh I sang with the the Choir of [St. Michael and All Saints](https://smas.church/) Episcopal Church. I am a member of the [Royal School of Church Music](https://rscmaustralia.org.au/).}
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\p{In 2022 I visited the monks at the [Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes](https://www.solesmes.com/), under Dom Geoffrey Kemlin. When I lived in Edinburgh I sang with the the Choir of [St. Michael and All Saints](https://smas.church/) Episcopal Church and at [Old St. Paul's](https://osp.org.uk). I am a member of the [Royal School of Church Music](https://rscmaustralia.org.au/).}
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\p{In particular, I have an interest and considerable expertise in the rich chant tradition of the medieval western church, and I am seeking rare prayer books, hymnals, graduals, nocturnals, vesperals, diurnals, antiphonaries and similar. Details of my musical score collection are maintained in my [[loc-002D]].}
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\title{I've joined Coro}
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\author{liamoc}
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\date{2026-03-07}
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\p{Last week I auditioned for [Coro](https://www.corocanberra.com/concerts), a festival concert choir located here in Canberra. I'm delighted to announce that they have invited me to sing with them starting with \em{Motets}, their first concert for 2026, scheduled in May. }
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\import{table-macros}
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\title{A TextMate bundle for Forester}
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\author{liamoc}
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\date{2026-03-07}
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\p{As part of my embrace of well-designed old Mac software, I've started using [TextMate](https://macromates.com/textmate/) again. I made a bundle for building Forester forests that supports completion using \code{forester complete} (not LSP, as TextMate predates that).}
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\p{The bundle can be downloaded from my [git repository on tangled](https://tangled.org/liamoc.net/forester.tmbundle).}
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\figure{
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\import{table-macros}
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\title{Old-fashioned Mac Software still unbeaten}
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\author{liamoc}
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\date{2026-03-08}
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\p{Growing increasingly frustrated with the Apple mail client's seemingly unfixable inability to search for emails \em{I just read}, I made the switch to [MailMate](https://freron.com/), a good old-fashioned Mac OS X-style app with a lot of useful features, good performance, and, most importantly, \em{working search}. Of course, ANU in their infinite wisdom have not seen fit to bless MailMate as an allowed client on their OAuth server, but this is nothing that a little [davmail](https://davmail.sourceforge.net/) can't fix... }
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\p{In general, the quality of software on the Mac is getting worse, primarily because a large amount of it isn't even \em{for the Mac} (and secondarily because Apple themselves are enshittifying their software and their design guidelines). I'm tired of running 18 instances of Chromium to do basic tasks. This is why I continue to use [Nova](https://nova.app/), [TextMate](https://macromates.com/), MailMate, etc. I would use [Orion](https://orionbrowser.com/) too, except for its jankiness and poor performance compared to [Zen](https://zen-browser.app/). The other major motivation is my aversion to the dreaded bots and those who use them, which is why I moved away from ghostty and to [alacritty](https://alacritty.org/) lately, although I'd welcome suggestions there. }
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\date{2026-03-08}
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\import{table-macros}
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\def\percent{\startverb%\stopverb
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\parent{loc-000P}
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\title{Third Sunday of Lent 2026}
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\tag{cmc}
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\author{liamoc}
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\quote{Oculi mei semper ad Dóminum, quia ipse evéllet de láqueo pedes meos: réspice in me, et miserére mei, quóniam únicus et pauper sum ego.
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\p{This Sunday our director was hit with the double-whammy of being both sick and busy, so the choir at [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) was under my (figurative) baton as we sang Saint-Saëns' [Ave Verum Corpus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBZo0qP9B6A), a piece new to me: }
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\quote{
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Ave verum corpus natum de María Vírgine;
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}\td{Hail, true body, born of the Virgin Mary;}
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\td{Vere passum, immolátum in cruce pro hómine;
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\td{True suffering, sacrificed on the cross for Man;}
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\tr{\td{Cuius latus perforátum unda fluxit sánguine} \td{From whose pierced side flowed waves of blood,}}
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Esto nobis prægustátum in mortis examine.}
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\td{Be for us a foretaste in death's trial.}
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\p{Our organ scholar Lillian also very successfully played for the entire service for the first time. Congratulations to her!}
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\title{Weeknotes 2026-W10}
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\author{liamoc}
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\date{2026-03-08}
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\p{This week I started to feel a bit more on top of things, and enjoying living in one of the nicest cities in the world.}
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\figcaption{The corellas assemble on my way to my [Coro](https://corocanberra.com) audition. }
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