I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Category: Music

Music is a huge part of my life so it’s almost certain that this category will have a lot of stuff in it.

Organising molecule

Posted by on in Creative Process, Music
Analogue Sound Generator
MIDI unit
Digital Generator
LFO

With some of the modules in my molecule synth there are multiple inputs but none of them are labelled, so I thought I’d label mine up to make it easier to use. This is actually twice as much fun as I get to use a label machine too.

The only downside is that I can’t get the code for the MIDI module to load. I’m sure it’ll get sorted soon enough though.

Getting to grips with meeblip

Posted by on in Music, Tech
Meeblip and Genome
BeatPad and meeblip
meeblip
meeblip up close
Connections
meeblip panel
meeblip and TouchOSC
meeblip and Shruthi

Just a few shots of my new meeblip synth and trying it out in a variety of ways.

OMD, Metroland, and playing things to death

Posted by on in Listening, Music, Thinking

I listened to this on Spotify and was really impressed by how good it was. Very well produced synth pop music. In many ways what you’d expect from OMD. So I played it for a few days and now I’m starting to move on again. I’ve probably over listened to the Metroland remixes and had enough, for now anyway.

So i makes me wonder what is it that gets us to obsessively listen to something for a while, a few days usually in my case, and then move on. Of course, it could just be me, but I don’t think so. I do know that a few of my friends are like this too. It comes in cycles usually. I’ll listen to something intently for a while then put it down, then in a few months or years I’ll come back to it and rediscover just how good it is. I suppose that’s the thing with ‘pop’ music isn’t it.

Metroland (Remixes) - Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark