The first of the new fourth Doctor Who stories has arrived, “Destination Nerva”. I’m looking forward to listening to this one over the weekend at some point, and I hope that the second story won’t be too long behind it either.
Month: January 2012
MixPad running under StyleTap on my 3G
I got MixPad (Palm OS MIDI player / mixer) onto my 3G a few days ago, but I only got some MIDI files loaded today. The results? Excellent. MixPad used the KriKit audio engine and played files back just fine.
More Karn
I’ve been continuing to listen to Mick Karn’s albums over the last few days. The first two are really the ones I love the most, and his work after that was interesting but I didn’t enjoy it as much with one or two exceptions.
Having said that it’s been really good to listen to his work again and enjoy it together as a complete body of work. I think there’s a lot to be said for that, and this might become an annual occurrence.
Sunvox arrives for Android, but not for me
It is of course great news to hear that the excellent Sunvox app has arrived for Android. Sunvox was always described as a cross platform modular tracker and it is truly cross platform now.
Sadly it won’t run on my under-powered old Android phone which is only running 2.2, as Sunvox requires 2.3, and even if I could get 2.3 on my device I doubt it would work very well as the CPU is quite slow. Still, I’m glad to see it and I’d happily pay for it as and when I upgrade.
Well done Alex!
Science Museum
From the inside of the stair well in the Science Museum in London, and looking up.
Thinking about Spotify
I’m considering getting a Spotify subscription. I was somewhat taken with the spotify apps (SPAPPS) that I saw at Music Hack Day London last month and it got me wondering about giving Spotify another try out. So I’m almost there in terms of making up my mind about it. The only nagging doubt is that the last time I tried Spotify I actually couldn’t find too much music that I liked on it, which is a major drawback for a music service.
Perhaps it’s changed now, as it was a while back since I used it.
Mick Karn: Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters
This is without a doubt my favourite Mick Karn album. It has a great feel to all of the tracks and a real sense of flow from one piece to the next. Every time I listen to it I realise just how much I love this album and I seem to find something new on every listen.
In fact, I may have to listen to it again soon now that I’ve been playing it again for the first time in a while.
Is that a BBC Micro I see before me?
Why yes it is. A nice little BBC Micro Emulator running on my Android. How useful is it? Well, not very to be honest, but fun nevertheless.
Automating field recording
As part of my ongoing experimenting with Android and Tasker I decided to see if I could get tasker to make a recording every morning at a specific time and then send me a text to confirm it was done.
Well of course tasker is more than up to this and this morning it worked relatively well although I’m having a few problems with getting the file to play now, but I’m sure that’s just teething troubles. Once I’ve got that sorted I’ll start to post the recordings.
Mick Karn: Titles
I didn’t really get to listen to Mick’s albums last week, so I thought I’d remedy that this week, and I started with Titles. Mick Karn’s Titles
Having said that, the entire album shows a very high standard of musicianship and ranges from the almost pop like tracks like ‘Sensitive’, to quite experimental (if that is a valid term to use) pieces like ‘Tribal Dawn’.
It was great to go back and listen to this album again, and to recapture the feeling I had when I first listened to it all those years ago. To me it still sounds fresh and vibrant and it has a unique sound. In my view it’s well worth a listen.
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