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The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
I recorded these samples whilst watching / helping out at last year’s London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally. I made the rhythm track a while back and them it sat there for ages. Then last week a few ideas came together and this got made.
I hope you like it.
It seems strange to be ‘revisiting’ apps in an app economy that’s not even 4 years old as yet, but a lot has happened in the iOS and the mobile world in general in the last 3 and a bit years and I realised the other day that there were loads of apps I didn’t use anymore at all.
Not because they were bad, not because they didn’t serve a purpose, but just because I’d moved on. So I decided to load a whole bunch of them to my older iPhone 3G and see if I could really make it a dedicated music making machine. As I’m writing this I’ve loaded on about 100 ‘old’ apps and I plan to go through them a few at a time, or maybe just one at a time to see if they’re still useful and have a purpose on this device.
So expect to see a stream of posts about these old apps over the next however long it takes.
The other day I was messing around with my Thingamagoop and 2 monotrons, and of course recorded the output. I then tried working with it as sample data in Jasuto Pro, which I think worked quite well.
What I might do is put together all of the different treatments of this recording in a single soundcloud set at some point this week(-ish).
I’ve been lurking around openprocessing of late, using it to find useful processing code to serve as a starting point for some of my own experiments. If you don’t know openprocessing, it’s a great place for inspiration and to see what other people have made using processing. You can find it here.
The recording isn’t wonderful as it just ends abruptly, but it gives some idea of where I’m going with this track hopefully.
Installed. No problem! Great to have it back.
The Retronyms pulled out an amazing app when they introduced Tabletop last year. It isn’t like any other modular environment on the iPad, but so far I haven’t had much, if any, chance to do anything with the newer modules.
So my plan is to get that sorted out very soon.
The more I get into Jasuto, the more ideas I have for using it. That’s not to say that it is perfect of course, there are always areas that could be improved, but you can say that with any software.
Jasuto is perfectly useful as it is, but it would be great to see it updated sometime soon.
Buddha Machine has added a few nice features which prompted me to try it out again. It’s a strange music making app, but I do find myself warming to it though. It’s also interesting to work with the app against the actual hardware version.
Next on the list is a collaboration with the awesome Concretedog. I’m really looking forward to collaborating with him.
I am Ashley Elsdon 
