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Category: Creative Process
The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
Video for my track: Sympaticon
I quite enjoyed making this and getting it finished off. It isn’t perfect by any means, but it isn’t bad, and as a first attempt (almost first) I’m quite pleased with it.
Of course, it makes me think of other stuff I’d like to do with video, so expect more at some point.
Just a little update to the littleBits video page
The page has been updated with a new video as I’ve added some more bits to my kit. The latest video on the page uses a line input to connect an iPhone 3G into the kit.
Getting some more littleBits time
I finally got some time today to do some more stuff with my littleBits kit. Using the new stuff to get some different outcomes with my kit. It’s so much fun to make stuff with the kit. So many interesting sounds that you can get out of it. Of course I could buy more bits and expand my kit almost for ever. I don’t think it would be too healthy if I did that from a financial point of view though.
So instead I’m starting to try out connecting the kit to other stuff. I already tried this with the molecule synth, which I will try again as it goes, but one of the new bits I got was the mic bit which also has a line input which should allow for some more creative connections.
As always, there’ll be videos …
A different version of the dream draw
This is an updated version of an older track I made. I posted details of how it was made over on Palm Sounds too. I’m actually quite proud of it. The process was a little haphazard, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Loving messing about with littleBits Korg Synth kit
To the extent that I’ve been wondering about getting some of the other components to do even more interesting things with it. I’ve also been thinking about how to combine it with some of my other gear to see how it can work together. It really is awesome stuff!
I recorded some sounds from the littleBits kit using my GuitarJack line in and my iPhone 3G running FourTrack, which still works like a dream!
The new Jasuto is the new Jasuto
Something complicated
Something not so complicated
Of course it was wonderful to see the new version of Jasuto (v 1.5) finally arrive on the app store after such a massive gap. And it wasn’t a disappointment at all. There’s plenty of new toys in there that are all great and shiny. It’s fun to play with this after such a long time. It reminds me just how good it is to make things, to put things together and see how they work.
I remember when Jasuto first came out it was a truly amazing step forward for music making on mobile devices, but it was hard to get into and I think a lot of people found that too, not really understanding how to make things work in Jasuto. It too me a while, but it was worth the effort and when I went back to it this week it was just as I’d remembered.
So I’m looking forward to spending more time with it and making more things as a lead in to some increased creativity after a somewhat dry spell.
Jasuto Modular Synth is available on the app store:
You know what this means …
I finished reading ‘In the field’, and these are a few things I thought
I’ve found this book inspiring at times, interesting, and once or twice, frustrating. It is a series of interviews with a number of people involved in field recording. It asks them a series of questions about their practice and why they record and for the most part the responses are very well put together.
For someone who has dabbled with field recording on and off for a long time I found this inspiring and illuminating. Some of the reasons given for recording and for what makes a good recording where superb. But the book isn’t just about recording, and in fact, it is very light on any kind of technical detail, which I suppose should come as no surprise as it is subtitled ‘the art of field recording’.
Quite a number of the interviewees talked extensively about listening as well as recording. This is something that I found really interesting and it’s made me think a lot more about the sounds we (I) experience every day. It’s so easy to overlook sounds that you hear all the time and not appreciate them or explore them, and in many ways recording is a way to do just that.
So the book has given me a lot to think about, and some things to follow up on too. I’m intrigued to find out where it’ll take me next.
A first go at a template for molecule synth
I’ve been meaning to get this sorted out for a while. I started it a few weeks ago and then started having much grander ideas about what to do next with it, but then decided that something was better than nothing so I thought I’d post this picture of what the template will look like before putting a PDF up somewhere.
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