You can now find my TouchOSC page here. The long term plan is to include templates I make so that anyone can download them.
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.
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.
BeatPad controlling the Shruthi-1
I’ve posted this over at PalmSounds but I really like this and it’s kind of a fun thing to be doing with old and new tech all in one place.
Finished reading “Music in Dreamland”
I’ve never been much of a reader of biographies, but this one really got my attention. Having been a long time fan of Bill Nelson I did know a lot about him and his music, but the book brought it to life (of course he’s still alive so it would).
It was well worth the read and I might even buy his other book.
It’s given me a taste for reading other biographies too, which is handy as I have a real backlog of books to read.
Checking through the Wire’s top albums of 2012
This is an annual event where I see just how many albums out of the Wire’s top 50 I have bought or have listened to. I’ve not done too badly at all this year so far, and for the first time I’ve got the no.1 album in the Wire top 50 already! It’s Laurel Halo’s Quarantine, and it is a great album, of that there’s no doubt.
So overall I’ve not done too bad for 2012.
A little set of experimental Shruthi-1 sounds
Here come the short waves …
http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=1968367277/size=grande3/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/
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!
I am Ashley Elsdon 