Cryomodules was produced mostly in Hamburg, Germany in early 2017. I was working there for a few months, helping commission the European XFEL low level RF systems. The idea was that, with both the EuXFEL and LCLS2 (the superconducting accelerator upgrade at SLAC) coming online in within a few years, and experience in particular areas at each lab that could help the other, we’d do a bit of a work exchange. My colleagues and I would go over to help them get their machine running. In exchange, a few years down the road, they’d come to SLAC to help us get the upgraded accelerator running.
For me, it had been around a decade since I had last worked in Hamburg. It was good to be back, and to catch up with colleagues that I had worked with before or met in school.
I traveled light, despite living there for a while. Still, I managed to bring a travel tablet for art, cameras for the science videos, and a limited set of music hardware. I didn’t have much to use, just Logic and Maschine (running without my Maschine Studio), and basic mics for sampling. Still, often sitting on the roof of the apartment building I was living in, it was a blast to experiment.
The music is generally looping and iterative, and frankly (now with a few years of study and practice after) there are lots of things I’d fix. However, that’s how it usually is, I suppose.
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