I sent this picture off to Tapedeck.org weeks if not months ago. Since then I’ve heard nothing at all. Which is a shame as they don’t have one of these on their site.
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
Finding the listening Room
I heard about this site from Evolver.fm. It is just the sort of thing I was looking for when I wrote this post.
The listening room seems like a really good start
Remembering Mick Karn
As you may have heard Mick Karn passed away this afternoon. His music has been an inspiration to me for many years. His talent and creativity will live on after him and he will be remembered as an incredible musician.
More RJDJ
//
You need to have Flash installed to listen directly on the site. Install Flash or you can download the recording instead
“30 Dec 2010 03:12 PM” by Ashley Elsdon
Recorded from Echolon. Check out more recordings from Echolon…
//
You need to have Flash installed to listen directly on the site. Install Flash or you can download the recording instead
“30 Dec 2010 12:08 PM” by Ashley Elsdon
Recorded from Echolon. Check out more recordings from Echolon…
Fun with Mindstorms
Been playing with Lego Mindstorms today making little robots! Awesome! Absolutely love this stuff, it is so much fun.
I’m hoping to make some cool robots to play with mobile music devices soon.
The Music of the Wires
Hope and Greenwood: Probably the best sweet shop ever
I was in London today at the Royal Opera House and noticed that there was a Hope and Greenwood’s just around the corner.
Hope and Greenwood’s are probably the best old fashioned sweet shops ever. You can still by things by imperial measure and get bags of sweets made up. I’ve been to their shop near Forest Hill many times on trips to the Horniman Museum (I’ve mentioned the place many times), but I’ve never been to their central London shop.
It isn’t much bigger, but it is just as wondrous. The staff are wonderful and the range of confectionery is superb.
If you ever get a chance to visit one of their shops then you must, absolutely you must.
Listening in January
I’ve been thinking more about my idea to critically listen to 1 song or track per day in January. I’ve been wondering which artist I should listen to. I really want to restrict it to 1 artist for January as it makes sense to listen consistently over the whole month.
The more I’ve thought about it the more I’ve thought that I could only listen to David Sylvian in Jan. It makes sense, to listen to an artist where I have a significant number of songs, and I do, and even though I thought of lots of different ideas for music and artists I kept coming back to David Sylviam, so that’s what I’m going to stick with.
The next thing to do is to work out how I organise my listening over the month. I’ll be giving that some thought over the next few days.
First Men in the Moon
I watched this just a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it, so it was quite funny to meet the chap who was the art director for it just the other day in the pub and have a long chat with him. He’s a really nice guy.
Ending in the word ‘git’
I finished listening to Alexei Sayle’s book “Stalin ate my homework”. I have to say I really liked it. It was at times funny, sad, thought provoking and insightful.
It is one of those books you wish there was more of when you get to the end of it. Even so it was a good place to stop. I especially liked that he read it himself. That added a great deal to the listening experience.
I think that some of it will stick in my mind for quite some time to come although my own childhood was nothing like his, but even so, there are things that resonated with me.
It was, it is, a great book.
I am Ashley Elsdon 