I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Category: Making things

I do like to make things, although I’m really not that good at it

Punchdrunk, part 1.

Posted by on in Making things, Mobile Applications, Music

Originally I wanted to release Punchdrunk as a collection of 60 1 minute songs which described a single fictitious day in a person’s life. However, I’ve never finished all the songs. So I’ve decided to release it in a series of batches.

The first batch is 20 instrumental tracks, which would have been the first 20 songs on the whole album.

After this I’ll release another two batches of instrumentals and then finally a collection of the actual songs that I did finish.
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released 09 February 2013
These tracks were made with Bhajis loops on a Palm PDA, a Tungsten T3, Zire 72, Tungsten E and a Song Clie NX73V.

Enjoying making …

Posted by on in Making things

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Making things is a load of fun, whether it’s TouchOSC templates, arduino stuff, or synth kits. I’m glad to be getting back to it again after what has seemed to be a long time.

Messing with Mozzi

Posted by on in Making things, Tech

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I’ve been spending some time with the Mozzi synthesis library for Arduino, and it really is amazing! I had no idea that the arduino could do that kind of synthesis so well. I’m really impressed with it and now I’ve got loads of ideas for how to put it into practice.

Here come the short waves …

Posted by on in Listening, Making things, Music, Sounds

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Some more new (old) music from me that I still haven’t finished and now don’t intend to. This short collection of tracks is probably even less polished than the previous, but it is something I really liked the idea of, but just didn’t finish off in the end.

I hope you enjoy it. Just remember, it isn’t finished at all!

Bare Conductive Cards

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things, Tech

I found this stuff at the V&A Digital Design Weekend. It’s great fun to use and the card kit is excellent. For £10 (I think) you get three cards and all the components to make them into little electronic greeting extravaganzas. What more could you want?

The actual conductive ink is sticky stuff and requires a little patience, but it’s worth it for the finished product.

Circuit disappointment

Posted by on in Events, Making things, Tech

I was able to go along to a workshop held by Technology will save us. A great little tech company with a fantastic ethos. The workshop was at Rough Trade East and was all about making a DIY synth. Something very close to my heart. Sadly, some of the components used in the kits didn’t work at all and so the whole thing ground to a halt about halfway through.

It was a real shame actually as it had all been making a lot of sense up to that point, and so I felt really quite disappointed by the event. I know that they’ll figure out a way of sorting things out, but it wasn’t a great experience sadly, especially as I’d been looking forward to it so much.