This is from a railway station. Obviously it’s been messed about with quite a lot, but I really like it. It isn’t a very nice tunnel in real life, but this improves on it a lot I think.
It is a tunnel …
Author: ashleyelsdon
Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
Olegtron module ordered!
I posted about the new Olegtron module a little while ago, well now I’m glad to say I’ve got my module ordered thanks to a speedy response to my email from the lovely people at Olegtron. I’m really looking forward to getting it, and you can bet there’ll be pictures once it arrives!
Water and Lilly pads
Just to be clear I’m not just posting pictures from the Isle of Wight. It just so happens that this is the next one I thought I’d post. Once again it was taken on a very simple and cheap camera, but it really did the job with this I think.
From PalmSounds: Thoughts for Mobile Music in 2016
One more cross post from PalmSounds. Thoughts about what we might see in mobile music in 2016. I wonder what will actually come about in that world that is really quite important to me.
Field recording: The train to London pulls away as someone drags a large suitcase down the stair and I don’t help
Really this was just a test recording but I like the sound of the train pulling away.
And another thing from PalmSounds: Favourite posts (at PalmSounds) in 2015
Another cross post from PalmSounds, my favourite posts from PalmSounds in 2015. Some really good stuff in here if you’re interested in mobile music that is. If you’re not, well then, just move along, there’ll be something else interesting later!
Something from PalmSounds: 24 devices that were important to me for mobile music
I thought I’d post a link to this post at PalmSounds as it is as appropriate here as it is there. All of these devices are still important to me and if anything I think they’ll be even more important in 2016. I hope you like the post if you read it.
Weathered metal 1
This was taken ages ago at Calbourne Mill on the Isle of Wight. They have lots of old farm machines there. Lots of them rusting away and weathering slowly. I like that texture of metal so this seemed a good picture to post second.
Recho hasn’t worked for me, but why?
I had some high hopes for Recho, but as I was sort of spring cleaning apps from my iPhone the other day I noticed it and realised that I hadn’t used it in any way at all for months and month. So I had a look at the Recho web site and it’s still there and still going it seems. But every time I tried it even in London I couldn’t find very many sounds or stories or anything that had been left.
So I wondered if in fact it hadn’t been a big success in the UK? Maybe.
Is it worth giving it more of a go? I don’t know. Perhaps I should try again? Perhaps if I try it now I’ll find more stuff in London? I think it might be worth trying again, even for a few days, just to see if there’s more content and it might be fun.
A field recording to start 2016
I said that I’d try again to create a sound diary of sorts, so here’s a start. I doubt I’ll manage to do this on a daily basis, but maybe weekly will work. So this is my first attempt at a start for 2016. I may post more than one per week, maybe not. We’ll see.
This was recorded in a local park. Very quite although you can hear a plane going over and cars occasionally too. It felt quite though.
It was recorded with my new Zoom h2n.
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