Personal, Music (& some Code) Highlights of 2020
Unusual year! I spent some time doing normal things like slinging code and music. I spent a lot more time changing the way I see the world and my place in it. I also went micro viral on TikTok back in March. Thanks to all who were a part of it 👾
published on December 22nd, 2020
updated on January 1st, 2023
estimated reading time: 3 min
January
January 1st: New Year’s Eve party with my friends at Peter and Kyla’s apartment.
first selfie of 2020
January 10th: The Good Few played a sold out show at Bowery Ballroom.
The Good Few plays Bowery Ballroom
January 11th–12th: Recording sessions with my friend Katie Glasgow, working on some of her solo music.
January 22nd: My Ableton Live and the Push 2 bundle arrived. This was an important first step in re-examining my relationship with music this year.
January 29th: minikit SoFar show at Kinfolk in Williamsburg.
January 31st: minikit released '400 Coffees (Ursae Flip)' thanks Andrew!
February
February 14th: Modern Diet released 'Post Grad'. A song about life after college. I played bass guitar on it.
‘Post Grad’ artwork by Camille Petricola
February 23rd: Covey played a sold out show opening for Summer Salt at Music Hall of Williamsburg - my final live performance of 2020.
Covey plays Music Hall of Williamsburg
March
March 19th: A TikTok I made of my dad playing basketball gets over 100k views.
March 26th: A second TikTok I made of my dad playing basketball gets over 110k views.
April
April 3rd: Cannon released 'CONVERSATIONS'. I co-produced and co-wrote this track.
May
May 1st: Launched badtheband.com - a landing page for the Queens, New York based electronic funk band BAD.
May 21st: Cannon released 'BROKEN MIRRORS'. I co-produced this track.
May 23rd: I posted a remix of 'i finally understand' by Charli XCX to SoundCloud. This my first (and only, so far) production made with Ableton to be released.
July
July 4th: Great hand in Prospect Park to celebrate my friend Peter's birthday.
July 5th: Initial commits on a LifeOS / external-brain side project I’m very excited to continue working on. Please ask me about this if you’re curious to know more!
August
August 6th: My 26th birthday :']
26 :’] Photo by Sara Laufer
August 13th: Katie Glasgow released 'Tarot Cards' from the recording sessions we did back in January.
August 31st: Started reading/doing The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.
September
September 11th-15th: Late summer / early fall trip to Cape Cod with my cousin Jess to unwind and catch up.
late summer Cape Cod Bay sunset.
September 16th: Celebrated my official one year anniversary of employment as Junior Front End Engineer at Thinx Inc.
October
October 31st: Halloween. I went as: “Bridget.”
November
November 13th: Panther Hollow releases Songwiring. I played bass guitar on two songs from this album: "Landslide" and "Maine Coast."
Songwiring artwork by Bernardo Ochoa
November 21st: Zoom Thanksgiving. Grateful to have spent the day at home with my parents.
Me on my way to Zoom Thanksgiving 2020
November 26th: Officially completed The Artist’s Way (and I'm still doing the morning pages & artist date).
December
December 18th: Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011–2016 by Maggie Rogers is released. I played bass guitar on six songs from this album: 'Celadon & Gold', 'Together', 'Steady Now', 'One More Afternoon', 'James' and 'Anybody.'
This post was originally published on my medium account.