Ok, it was last week, but I thought I’d mention it. I had a couple of less than perfect experiences with the last batch, so I’m hoping for much more satisfactory experience this time around. I’ll be sinking the first one or two in a day or so. I’ll let you know the results.
Author: ashleyelsdon
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Removing all the posterous posts
I used to use posterous as a convenient platform for posting and storing field recordings. However, posterous went quite a long time ago now, and it seems silly to keep these posts around. Unfortunately there were 135 of these posts. Anyway, I’ve deleted all of these now as a part of tidying up the site.
Doctor Who Companion Chronicles: The Time Vampire
This wasn’t a bad Companion Chronicles story really. I did mind it. It wasn’t the best I’ve heard, but it wasn’t the worst at all.
So I watched “I dream of wires”
It was quite interesting actually. I filled a lot of gaps in my knowledge about modulars. However, it still hasn’t made me really want one. I can understand the ideas behind them and I can understand why they are popular, but I still don’t want to commit to getting one. Perhaps it’s because I’ve never actually got my hands on one so I’m not hooked as yet. Who knows.
Still, it was interesting to watch and hear some of the views of a few artists I really respect.
Doctor Who Companion Chronicles: The Child
Whilst this was quite cheap it didn’t really do anything much for me I’m afraid. I didn’t think much of the story really, it didn’t really appeal.
Now that’s a lovely ale
I often have Gem at WOMAD, so when I recently saw it in the local supermarket I thought I’d try a couple of bottles. Well it was just as good as the draft. I was really impressed I have to say.
Edinburgh Fringe 2015: The Blues Brothers Live
This was a must for me at Edinburgh this year. Of course, with a show like this you never quite know what you’re going to get before you get there. It’s a gamble, like most of the Fringe, but even more so when you’re a big fan of something like The Blues Brothers.
But it was very good. Very good indeed. They did all the major songs and more. The routines were very good, Jake was especially convincing and all in all it was a good gig.
I think I should go to a few more Blues Brothers tribute bands.
I can’t believe that Sylvian’s new release is sold out already
I’ve missed it. I’m really annoyed about that. I’ve checked the confront recordings site and it confirms that it’s sold out. How irritating is that! I didn’t even know it was going to be a limited edition release. I thought I’d just be able to get a digital edition.
I guess I could look for a copy on eBay and pay too much for it. I’m not really happy about it all. Sort of annoyed with myself too.
So I didn’t make it out to Open House London at the weekend
Instead I had a very quiet weekend and caught up on a load of things instead. It was a bit of a shame, but not the end of the world of course. I didn’t really fancy anything in particular from this year’s set of buildings either. Still, perhaps I should make a bigger effort to go along next year. We’ll see.
Messing around with littleBits MIDI bit
I’ve been playing around with my new littleBits MIDI bit. It’s pretty easy to get to grips with. It handles USB MIDI and 5 pin MIDI too, which is very handy. It all worked very well actually. I tested it out using Genome MIDI Sequencer on my iPad. No problems at all.
I got it to hopefully make my littleBits collection a bit more useful. I think that it will. The down side is that it appears that one of the oscillators in my kit appears to have stopped working. Which is disappointing. I doubt that there’s anyway to fix it sadly. I guess I’ll just have to get a new one.
I am Ashley Elsdon 