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Who knew? Not me that’s for sure anyway! And, what’s more, it appears to be compatible with my old Orange San Francisco. Excellent. I shall download that and then maybe not really use it for a while then dramatically rediscover it in a few months.
Sounds like a plan doesn’t it?
A wonderful Tom Baker story. Thoroughly enjoyable with classic Leela-ness about it too. I also liked ‘The Horror of Glam Rock’, the 8th doctor story of a similar name, with an excellent Bernard Cribbens performance.
Something I got for Christmas. David Sylvian’s ‘Implausible Beauty’ calendar. It’s rather lovely. I think I should look at it a bit more.
One of the applications I’ve always wanted to spend more time with is Mixtikl. It is such a deep and complex application for iOS or Mac, or any other platform for that matter. I spent almost two hours with Mixtikl today, and enjoyed it so much. Even so I know that I’m still just scratching the surface of what this application is capable of.
I love the generative possibilities and the ability to set rules within each cell. It really does stretch the limits of what you can do with mobile music.
The other thing I love is the ability to be able to tweet a mix and share it instantly.
I’m looking forward to even more time with Mixtikl and going deeper and deeper with what it can do.
I’d listened to ‘The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul’ a while back, so just the other day I bought myself ‘Holistic Detective Agency’. I think that’s out of sequence, but I doubt that it matters much. Anyway, I started listening to it today. So far, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Excellent start. As expected.
I’m still hoping for the BBC to make more Dirk Gently after the pilot episode, but no news so far.
I’ve been using this off and on over the last few days and I think I’m actually enjoying it more than I did when it first came out. I’d deleted it off my iPhone so I’d lost all the ‘dreams’ that I’d unlocked, but that doesn’t really matter.
I really love the whole augmented audio concept, and couple with the fact that I really love Inception the movie, the app is a natural fit.
Haven’t got on so well with their Dimensions app so far though. Perhaps I should give it another try.
I can still remember when this first came out. I was so impressed, even though it is a relatively short album, and their only release, it was an amazing listen and still is to this day. Not just for Karn’s fantastic bass and Pete Murphy’s amazing voice, but the range of textures and rhythms that each track has.
It is such a shame that Mick passed away before they could make a wholly new album. There is some material as yet to be released, and I hope that’ll be this year. It’s a must buy for me, but if you don’t know the Waking Hour, then you should.
Some photos from another Science Museum trip.
I hadn’t watched this film for a long time, and it’s still great But you couldn’t make a film like that now. It is just too slow, too leisurely in the telling of the story. Personally I like that, but it doesn’t seem to work too often now.
I did read 2061 and 3001 although I thought that they weren’t as good as Clarke’s first two stories.
I decided that I really should get better acquainted with Reaktor. I’ve had the software for ages, and aside from a little tinkering with it I’ve done very little. So I’ve started at the beginning again and decided to work through the tutorials before I dive in to make anything for myself.
Happily it all came flooding back to me when I got to it, and I was able to get going very quickly. One thing that surprises me though is that there seems to be no book about Reaktor. You can find books on almost all other major music applications, but none on Reaktor that I can find anyway.
Not that I’m planning to write one you understand.
I am Ashley Elsdon 