As a big Bill Nelson fan I felt that I had to try this stuff out. It isn’t bad at all really. In fact I’ve just bought another disc from Channel Light Vessel.
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.
Stephan Mathieu/David Sylvian “Wandermüde”
Although I do find that the number of iterations of Mr Sylvian’s work can seem to grow and grow, I have to say that this one is quite good. Very textural and restful. I’ve really enjoyed it.
Considering a meeblip
Having got a taste for this kind of thing from using my Shruthi-1 I’m now considering getting a meeblip, which looks like a lot of fun too. Initially I was looking at the meeblip micro, but as it’s out of stock for now I’ve moved on to the meeblip SE.
I even checked if there was a TouchOSC template available for meeblip. There is! So if I can control it using TouchOSC I can do a lot with it.
I may have talked myself around.
SpinPad controlling Shruthi-1
Another little video that’s been posted elsewhere I know, but it’s here too now, and I’ve been enjoying my Palm PDA renaissance of late, especially the whole controller experience. There’s more to come too.
Shruthi-1 Template nearing completion
This is where I’ve got to with my Shruthi-1 template in TouchOSC. It’s really coming along, and I hope to be able to start testing it very soon. Of course, as you make these things more and more ideas come to you, which isn’t much help in actually finishing anything off.
Punchdrunk, part 1.
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.
credits
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.
TouchOSC Page up
You can now find my TouchOSC page here. The long term plan is to include templates I make so that anyone can download them.
Baby Hedgehog controlling Shruthi-1
I’ve posted this elsewhere but thought I’d get the maximum value out of it by posting it here too. It’s fun experimenting with old and new tech all in one go.
Still buying vinyl
There are a handful of tracks that are on a list, the kind of list you know somehow you’ll never get to the end of. For me it’s a list of tracks I had once and now I’ve no idea where they are, so I have to get them again. This EP from Toyah is one. It has a track on it called Urban Tribesman, which I really loved, but it just doesn’t seem to be available on download or on a CD anywhere.
So I decided that with this, and with many other tracks that I’m outstanding, I will have to get them on vinyl. You know what, it’s quite nice to be buying vinyl again.
Latest edition of the Wire has arrived, and not before time either
Which means that I can finally get my year of to a proper start and discover something new to listen to, as I’m pretty bored with things at the moment.
I am Ashley Elsdon 