I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Tag: experimental

Experimental anything really. I love things that are an experiment, be it music, art, electronics or most other things.

Getting Plastic Planet by the Modified Toy Orchestra

Posted by on in Listening, Music

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As a long time fan of The Modified Toy Orchestra I was delighted when their latest album came out and I ordered it a few weeks ago. It seemed to take a while to arrive, then, a couple of days ago, a package turned up.

Not only did it contain the album, a CD in something like a children’s book package, which is an amazing design by the way, but also it contained the following

An extra CD
A Modified Toy Orchestra tie pin
Another shot of the extra CD and pin
This note of apology

I was amazed to say the least. I’d have been happy with a note of apology on it’s own, but this was completely unexpected, and, lovely too.

If that wasn’t enough, Plastic Planet is a joy to listen to as well. I’d recommend it.

Molecule Synth news and pictures

Posted by on in Music, Tech
Molecule Synth wins
Molecule Synth at maker faire
Molecule getting new features
The new table of elements

Good to see more features coming along to molecule synth. Looks like there’s plenty to look forward to in the not too distant future, and new features that are going to make it easier to interface with other hardware.

More Molecule

Posted by on in Music, Tech

I posted the other day about an idea I’d had for a patch sheet for the molecule synth. Well I wasn’t entirely happy with the idea and decided to change it to make it more usable. I hope to have a version all sorted by the end of the week all things being equal.

The new version makes it a lot easier to use and work with and I plan to post it up to the Molecule synth forums too.

Something for the molecule

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things

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I’ve started making this. It’s a sort of patch sheet for the molecule synth. A way of recording ideas in advance of trying them, or committing stuff that works to paper so you can make it work again. Once it’s finished I’ll post a PDF of it for anyone who wants to use it.

Experimenting with TWINE

Posted by on in The Internet of Things

I backed TWINE on kickstarter. I thought it was a great idea. I still do. What I struggle with a bit though is what to use it for. So, after a long period of not using it, I’ve upgraded it to the latest firmware. Now it can tweet and respond to vibration etc.

However, this doesn’t really help, I still don’t know quite what I’m going to use it for. It’s very interesting to get it to tweet the temperature, but so what? I’m sure that eventually I’ll work out a way of making this do something worthwhile. When I do, I’ll let you know.