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The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
My current musical project has had a bit of a stall this week. It isn’t that I’ve lost interest in doing it, rather everything else has taken priority over time this week and so nothing creative has had time to squeeze out.
I’m hoping that I might be able to put that right today or tomorrow. We’ll have to see later, but ideally I’d like to get this project finished this month. It think it is possible, but that doesn’t mean it is likely sadly.
I’m continuing to work on my new collection of tracks currently called ‘back and forth’. In working on it I suddenly realised that in some ways I was more interested in the creative process of making the pieces than I was with the final finished product itself.
I guess that in many ways the process itself is a journey of discovering something unique from the recorded media itself. This is even more true with field recordings and ‘back and forth’ is sort of field recording based.
Anyway, I’m enjoying the process and the end result is going to be mobile generated as you’d expect.
So I thought I’d mention that I’m on instagram now if anyone wants to check out my photos there. My user name is ashleyelsdon. No big surprises there then.
You can see some of my instagram stuff on my twitter feed.
I managed to get some more work done on my next musical project today. I wasn’t expecting to get much done, but I got a little work completed which felt good. The first phase of the project was quite straightforward, but the next phase is a lot less certain. It is a lot more experimental and I don’t have any fixed idea of what I want to achieve or how I want to achieve it.
I guess the fun is in the discovery or the journey rather. I’ll see how it shapes next week.
I’ve started working on my next musical project which is called ‘Back and Forth‘. It’s a lot different to my last little project, ‘Micro Process‘. Instead it is based on a series of field recordings made using RJDJ and then processed with some other applications.
I hope to have it done by the end of the month, but you know about plans right?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting some more work done on it and experimenting, because that’s the best part!
Seed: email-for-download element preview from CASH Music on Vimeo.
This is a really exciting platform for musicians, I can’t wait to try it out.
I’ve finally got around to finishing this off and I do quite like it really. Micro Process is 5 little tracks made on a Palm OS PDA and recorded using a Boss Micro BR. I’ve made it a page all to itself so if you want to have a listen you can find it here.
I’ve been messing around with Processing JS for a few days as it seems to be easier to put .js sketches into a web site than standard Processing sketches, and it is. But, whilst it makes a lot of sense to use processing.js with WordPress, sadly processing.js isn’t so good at audio, and a lot of my processing stuff is audio related.
So I’m going back to straight Processing for now as I know I can get the audio librarys to work with that.
Never mind
This is what I’ve been using to retrieve my old songs from often crumbling cassettes. Sadly it too is somewhat past it’s best and I’m not sure how much longer it will last.
I’m considering getting an old cassette 8 track. Probably not immediately, but in a while I think.
If you’re interested in old multitrack stuff then here’s a few more posts on the subject.
It was last weekend and I missed it completely. Which is a real shame for me. So, to make it up to myself I thought I’d post a few of my favourite cassette pictures.
Thinking about cassettes for me has to include a tape 4-track, or in this case, 8-track. A beautiful and highly functional piece of hardware.
I am Ashley Elsdon 