The new SoundLab site and guide is up now. It’s been a long time coming and it looks great. I hope that it will make a difference to organisations and groups and that it’ll be a useful resource. I can safely say that I had more fun from being a part of SoundLab than most other work I’ve been involved with.
Category: Creative Process
The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
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A small performance with Barcodas
I know it’s a bit strange, but I actually had a lot of fun doing this, so I thought I’d share it with you.
Loving Barcodas and finding out about bar codes
I do like the idea of made from things that don’t normally make music. Hence I like barcodas. The idea of making little snippets of music from bar codes is very appealing. To me anyway. The interesting thing, at least, interesting to me anyway is that different types of bar codes seem to have very different properties. So for instance, using bar codes taken from books, these all sound the same, at least the first few notes do. Bar codes taken from cereal boxes are quite different.
So I had a little idea for a barcodas project that I think I’m going to try out soon.
But of course, this would be much better …
After my last post it occurred to me that I have a much better machine for cassette playback. One that will almost certainly deliver better quality, and it was almost completely staring me in the face.
I think I might try this next!
Old 4-track gives me a new idea
I saw this the other day as I was looking for something else and had remembered that I’d bought it so I could retrieve some old 4 track tapes from complete obscurity. I had some notion that I’d revive the tracks and even add to them. Who knows if that would’ve ever worked out. However, at the time when I bought it I didn’t go ahead with the plan as this 4 track doesn’t have multiple track outs. It only has a stereo out, which kind of ruined the idea. My very first cassette 4-track was an X-15 which did have 4 outs, but sadly this doesn’t.
Anyway, as I saw it the other day I had a new idea of how to make this work. So, when I can get some time to set it up I might try and get it working.
If I do, you’ll hear about it. I it fails, we’ll never speak of it again …
SoundLab and Heart n Soul on the British Council site
It was great to see this on the British Council web site just before Christmas. A really good endorsement of the superb work that Heart n Soul do.
Some more littleBits experimentation from me
Another mention over at littleBits
Those lovely people over at littleBits have been kind enough to give me another feature as well, on their maker’s page. You can view it here.
littleBits SoundLab and me
This was really nice of littleBits. They put up a page about me and SoundLab on their site. You can see it here.
I am Ashley Elsdon 