I still don’t get it, but it’s great that it’s getting played that often.
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
Daphne Oram – Private Dreams and Public Nightmares
I think that this is one of the most interesting and mesmerizing albums I’ve listened to in ages. Inspiring and difficult at the same time. It’s great to listen to while working, but also strangely distracting at times.
I’m tentative about recommending it as I know it won’t appeal to many people, but it will appeal to some, who’ll love it.
Generator by Keith Fullerton Whitman
I’ve listened to this album a few times now and I’ve really enjoyed it each time. It’s a good album to work to. I enjoy how it builds and develops and how the pieces fit together.
I bought the album after reading an interview with him in The Wire which was really interesting.
Discovering people on twitter
I got the latest Discovr app which helps you find people on twitter. I started with my old @PalmSounds twitter ID and found out where it was connected. Quite interesting results really, and quite fun to look at.
CP1919
Another favourite Strange Agency app that I’m rediscovering since getting my iPad 3. Excellent for making noises.
Moving forward with LiveView
I posted about LiveView a week or so ago, and it’s taken me a little while to get back to this again. Although I’m only tinkering with it, I think it could have some interesting possibilities.
I quite like the ‘find my phone’ function on it, which just makes the phone vibrate and play a tone and the screen lights up saying ‘Here I am’, which is fun.
Having looked around Google Play for apps for it there seem to be quite a few and doing some interesting stuff, but by far the most appealing is an app or applet that seems to suggest it can be linked to tasker. Now that could be very useful.
Arduino trouble
These are some potentiometers I bought for use with my new Arduino Mega ADK. I got the code into the Arduino IDE and then hit trouble. It appears that with version 1.0 of the Arduino IDE a bunch of headers (or something) have been moved and as a result my code won’t work.
It’s a real pain as I was looking forward to getting this stuff working and talking to Android, but it looks like that might take a while longer now. What a shame.
App revisit: Flourish
Flourish is quite old now, but was a great idea and is still an interesting idea for a sequencer app irrespective of what platform it’s on.
It works as a circular pattern. An idea that’s been used a number of times before, but always in a slightly different implementations. Flourish is very nice implementation in my view. It is simple enough for a relatively non-musical user to enjoy, but allows enough complexity to be build up to create interesting compositions.
Not 1 but 4 new Palm OS apps to investigate
How’s that for a spot of luck. I was continuing to add sites to my Pearltrees collection on mobile music and stumbled over this site which has a bunch of .prc files available for free download.
I’ll be taking a look at all of them and posting some thoughts over the next few days. If you’re interested in taking a look the site is here.
An old song, but one that brings back good memories
I listened to this a few days ago and it brought back so many good memories that I decided that I should post it to SoundCloud and let others enjoy it, or not of course, as the case may be.
Anyway, I hope you do enjoy it.
I am Ashley Elsdon 