I should use this a lot more than I currently do. It is so much fun. I’m not sure exactly what I’m doing, except of course where I get something I like and continue to make sounds with it.
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The SoundLab Play Space is coming …
I’ve been working on this event for a while now and I think it’ll be completely amazing, or at least I hope so anyway. It’s starting to shape up now and really come together.
If you’re interested in attending or being a part of it in some way, then take a look at this page on the SoundLab web site.
One week until Movember
Listening to Blemish again
This is a difficult album. Not an easy listen at all. I remember when it first came out, it left a lot of people cold, and I think that back then I wasn’t sure what to make of it either.
Now I find that I actually quite like it. Even the contributions from Derek Bailey, which were very difficult listening. I like the album now. But it does require a more concentrated form of listening. Something more focused. It isn’t the kind of listening that I can do casually.
But I think it’s an album that’s worth listening to every now and then.
Microduino is in the nicest packaging
It really is very lovely indeed. I posted a couple of teasers about these last week, but so far I haven’t got them working as I’ve been having some issues with installing the Arduino libraries.
So I went to the Abbey Road Red launch, and it was pretty nice actually
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?
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
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.
It’s arrived
Torchwood Fall to Earth has arrived
Big Finish seem to be on a real roll right now. Their release schedule is pretty amazing these days and the quality hasn’t slipped at all. So I’m expecting big things from this, the second episode in the new Torchwood series.
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