someone who's doing some things
I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.
It’s called Flumina and I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve just been listening to the previews on iTunes and it sounds very peaceful and restful, and almost certainly what I’ll need by early next month.
It’s due on the 5th of December, so not too long to wait.
A truly beautiful CD Book.
Is the new album by John Foxx and the Maths. I got it today. It is awesome. So what did you expect? Apart from anything the whole package is a thing of beauty. It is in fact a book containing two CDs. One is the main album and the other is a CD of remixes.
I’ll take a few pictures in the morning and you can see just how good it is.
If you’re on the internet and interested in music then it’s difficult to miss things like turntable.fm and the other group listening services that have sprung up.
When I’ve looked at these I keep getting the feeling that they’re missing something. That in some ways the service has been designed to approximate the act of physical group listening into a digital environment, but something is missing. Perhaps what is missing from these attempts is the not possible to re-create in a digital world, or perhaps it isn’t possible to re-create the experience I remember as group listening.
The last point is important to me. Any form of digital group listening experience coloured by our own memory of what that experience means. For me it is rooted in teenage experiences of listening to vinyl and cassettes with friends. For someone growing up now the act of group listening may be first experienced in a digital environment and therefore we come at it from two very different perspectives.
So for me whilst things like turntable.fm may not work, for others they may be the ideal. I have to live with that.
It was an awesome performance from Mr Foxx as ever, and a great venue too, just right for his stuff.
Really looking forward to seeing him again.
A few of my better pictures from seeing Heaven 17 at the Roundhouse last week. A truly awesome show by a truly awesome band.
Saw them at the Roundhouse on Friday. Awesome. More about that soon I think.
I bought the latest copy of FM to read about their thoughts on the OP-1. Sadly, now I want one even more!
I am Ashley Elsdon 
