Daphne Oram – Private Dreams and Public Nightmares

I think that this is one of the most interesting and mesmerizing albums I’ve listened to in ages. Inspiring and difficult at the same time. It’s great to listen to while working, but also strangely distracting at times.

I’m tentative about recommending it as I know it won’t appeal to many people, but it will appeal to some, who’ll love it.

Private Dreams and Public Nightmares - Daphne Oram, Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle

Generator by Keith Fullerton Whitman

I’ve listened to this album a few times now and I’ve really enjoyed it each time. It’s a good album to work to. I enjoy how it builds and develops and how the pieces fit together.

I bought the album after reading an interview with him in The Wire which was really interesting.

Generator - Keith Fullerton Whitman

App revisit: Flourish

Flourish is quite old now, but was a great idea and is still an interesting idea for a sequencer app irrespective of what platform it’s on.

It works as a circular pattern. An idea that’s been used a number of times before, but always in a slightly different implementations. Flourish is very nice implementation in my view. It is simple enough for a relatively non-musical user to enjoy, but allows enough complexity to be build up to create interesting compositions.

Flourish - Explore and Create Limited

miniMusic’s birthday?

I have this in my diary as the birthday of miniMusic, the Palm and iOS mobile music company. I think that they’re 13 years old today. Having just checked their site there’s no update there. In fact, the site hasn’t been updated since the 9th of March 2011. It’s a shame. I hope it doesn’t just fade away.

Anyway, assuming that miniMusic sticks around, as I most sincerely hope they do, here’s a very happy birthday to miniMusic.

Curtis

I still love this app on my iPad, even though the strange agency has 3 Curtis apps now, and I like them all of course, but the iPad version is very nice indeed, and in some ways easier to use than even MegaCurtis, which I believe is also coming to the iPad.

Curtis for iPad - The Strange Agency LLC