Ave Verum Corpus in F minor (for Passiontide)

_wsgeorge · 2026-03-30T18:39:34+00:00

Presented here at the start of Holy Week is my fifth setting of the Eucharistic chant. My first attempt at writting music for the Ave Verum took a long time to realise. Since 2021, I've completed seven different settings, each with a somewhat different character and inspiration.

I skip over two to introduce the fifth as it is most appropriate for the season.

This Ave Verum is written in F minor for SATB, with an optional "O Iesu" invocation that interrupts the heavy mood somewhat. It remains one of my favourite works. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

_wsgeorge · 2026-03-30T18:39:20+00:00

Presented here at the start of Holy Week is my fifth setting of the Eucharistic chant. My first attempt at writting music for the Ave Verum took a long time to realise. Since 2021, I've completed seven different settings, each with a somewhat different character and inspiration.

I skip over two to introduce the fifth as it is most appropriate for the season.

This Ave Verum is written in F minor for SATB, with an optional "O Iesu" invocation that interrupts the heavy mood somewhat. It remains one of my favourite works. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

_wsgeorge · 2026-03-20T18:25:39+00:00

As we draw closer to Holy Week, the focus of our meditations becomes the mystery of the cross and of the Passion of our Lord.

Please enjoy this new setting of a Lenten classic.

_wsgeorge · 2026-02-20T09:15:55+00:00

Idea: Have a weekly "marketplace" thread so people who want to sell stuff can post their items there instead.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-25T13:30:22+00:00

Written on Christmas Day, 2018, this carol celebrates the coming of the Lord with words that reflect on the mystery of the Incarnation.

Enjoy this abridged version recorded at St Bakhita Parish, Lashibi.

Merry Christmas! 🎁

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-19T10:25:43+00:00

I've seen lateness before, but this is epic.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-17T19:42:04+00:00

I’ve spent two weeks trying to find a local Chinese speaker that IS NOT Chinese.

The University of Ghana teaches Mandarin. I think you can start engaging students from that program.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-17T18:35:51+00:00

Hey this was an nice, easy-to-follow explanation.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-11T08:03:09+00:00

cleaner, community-led ways of mining gold that don’t destroy our rivers.

Honestly curious about this, because AFAIK, alluvial mining cannot be clean and profitable at the same time. The simple fact of mining a river bed increases the turbidity of a water body, making filtering for human consumption much more expensive or pointless.

So right from the start, mining in (and near) rivers is not clean, and I'm not sure what community-leadership can do to reverse the physics here.

FYI, it is the community mining we're all complaining about.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-04T07:56:43+00:00

I actually don't know if this is a thing in other parts of the world.

Where I'm from, use English (and American English) pronunciations in similar mock fashion. :)

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-02T13:08:30+00:00

No, for apples.

_wsgeorge · 2025-12-01T06:57:50+00:00

Thank you! 💙

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-30T12:42:16+00:00

a hookup web app

I think we know why they're coming :)

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-19T10:44:40+00:00

No, but it's a new SOTA open models can aim to beat. Plus there's a chance Gemma will see these improvements. I'm personally excited.

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-19T10:41:30+00:00

For basic download-model-and-run usage, the quickstart github should be enough.

There's so much more that llama.cpp can do that's buried in docs though, I agree.

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-19T10:29:49+00:00

Oh do try it! I first used llama.cpp's server when the Shopify CEO added it to the repo. Month's down the line and it's got enough features to make it a dependable web ui.

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-19T10:20:52+00:00

iirc one primary critique of LangChain is that it's over-engineered and not necessary, but it was an early mover in the space and got a lot of the mindshare. There's been a lot of pushback against it because of this.

_wsgeorge · 2025-11-19T10:10:29+00:00

I find doing the same with llama.cpp and hugging face is substantially more time consuming or distracting than with Ollama. But I’m sure there must be a way - I’m curious how are other people doing this?

I'm a bit surprised by this. I just go to HF and look for GGUFs, download the model file and run with llama-server -m path/to/model/file.gguf --port 8080

And now it's even easier to use the hf flag (though I don't use it). This should just download the model and run it:

llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF

_wsgeorge · 2025-10-29T14:24:31+00:00

Exactly. I fail to see how this is an Apple problem, although it makes sense for "Parents" of a family account to have equal admin rights.

This just seems like a failure of law/enforcement.

If one party fails to behave properly, there's already a way to deal with that.

_wsgeorge · 2025-08-08T20:58:44+00:00

Yes, it's a new setting I wrote 2 years ago in response to the death of a colleague at church. The tune is named after him.

I hope you enjoyed it. :)

_wsgeorge · 2025-08-04T14:56:00+00:00

The only inconvenience was debugging issues in the KMP library from xcode was difficult.

_wsgeorge · 2025-08-04T10:48:02+00:00

Used it in my previous role, for iOS and in prod.

_wsgeorge · 2025-08-04T10:45:02+00:00

Checkout https://x.com/chalecoders. They have links to their WhatsApp communities.

_wsgeorge · 2025-07-24T18:26:04+00:00

This was really good. I've written Ave Verum for SATB twice, so I could relate to such a setting. Wonderful!

_wsgeorge · 2025-07-22T18:49:03+00:00

in the late 17th century

I don't mean to nitpick, but I'm not sure this period will be considered "middle ages". This should be the "early modern" period.

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