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So I went to the Abbey Road Red launch, and it was pretty nice actually

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Abbey Road Red Launch Event
Abbey Road Red Launch Event

So, last night I was at the launch of Abbey Road Red, a new music tech incubator at the iconic studios. It was a lovely event with some really nice tech companies showing off what they had to offer. Matthew Herbert performed and it was all pretty awesome overall.

To be honest I’m glad to be invited to these kinds of things. It’s nice to be a part of it.

What will the littlebits app expand to?

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I really like littleBits. That’s no surprise I’m sure, so I was very pleased to see their new iOS app arrive on the store a couple of weeks ago. It’s a nice little app, it’s a start though. A good start, but still, a start. I hope that they expand on it and make it a more integrated part of the littleBits ecosystem.

I’d like to see the app be able to connect into the MIDI bit. After all, it has a USB connector, so why not? From there I’d like to see some functionality in the app to be able to control hardware. MIDI is a great place to start of course, so why not there. That in itself would work well for me. Of course the other logical place to go would be with the cloudBit. That’s a pretty obvious thing to do, and of course probably easier than MIDI, and more mass market appeal too.

I hope that littleBits do develop the app and their ideas for it, as it is, whilst it’s fun and nice to see what others are doing it isn’t going to be enough for long.

Listening to David Sylvian’s albums again

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After getting Hypergraphia yesterday and starting to read it I thought I’d start to listen to some of Mr Sylvian’s albums again. I haven’t listened to some of them for a long time and a few of them only a handful of times.

So today I started to listen to:

  • Blemish
  • The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter
  • Manafon

These are, at times, difficult albums. Having said that, “The Good Son vs The Only Daughter” is one of my favourites.

So I’ll post some thoughts in a few days when I’ve had a chance to listen to these properly. I’m looking forward to this revisit.

Listening to the Doom Coalition 1

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Quite enjoying the Doom Coalition first box set so far. It’s pretty good. Sort of a bit of a follow on from Dark Eyes in a way, not that I actually listened to all of them only the first two. Although, now I actually would quite like to get the rest of the Dark Eyes stories.

Anyway, I think Doom Coalition is going to be a good series if the first box set is anything to go by.

So Pebble brings voice activation 

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Now things are going to get interesting for Pebble Time, or at least that’s what I’m hoping will happen. There’s already been an app for Pebble using the dictation SDK, but I hope that they’ll be a lot more soon. What I’d really be looking for is something like an audio recording app that allows you to stream the audio into the host device.

That would be cool.

Actually really enjoying the latest New Order album 

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On first listen I wasn’t sure about this album. I listened to it again the other day and was actually quite impressed with it. As a long time fan of New Order I was very hopeful that this album would deliver, and whilst it’s taken me a little while to get into it I think it’s done just that.

I’ve been listening to it on Spotify so far, but maybe I should buy it.