someone who's doing some things
I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.
I got this box set the other day and I’ve been listening to it off and on for the last few days. I love the music of Be Bop Deluxe and found it by discovering Bill Nelson’s solo work.
I have all the actual LPs that make up Futurist Manifesto, but even so it’s great to hear all of the tracks together.
I found this postcard in a pile of paperwork. It has some great pictures of the ethometric machines I saw in Edinburgh at the fringe.
I bought this after wanting one for ages and it is a great noise maker to play with. I’m especially looking forward to what I can do with linking it to an Arduino.
This is the little pamphlet that was given out at the beginning of the show. Awesome.
I was at the Edinburgh festival at the end of August this year and saw a bunch of shows. Some good, some not so good, some amazing. The Ethometric museum fell into the last category without a doubt.
We arrived at the venue and waited for the start of the show. We didn’t know what to expect at all. Just before the show was about to start a woman in a tweed suit asked us if we were here to see the Ethometric museum. We went with her out of the venue and around to the back of the building. She explained that we would need to wear hard hats for the duration of the show.
We went into a cellar under the building that was dimly lit and filled will racks of strange looking old machines. They looked like something out of the 1950’s. The woman gave us a 5 minute talk about the Ethometric museum and then explained that we would need to be completely silent during the demonstration.
What followed was an incredible performance of noise makers and synths that I absolutely loved. It was a triumph of making and music. The instruments were so beautifully made and the sounds so unique, it was a superb experience.
If you’d like to know more about The Ethometric Museum you can find information at Ray Lee’s site.
I’ve posted about the environmental fair before, but it was a great day with some great bands too. I try and go every year, and it’s worth it.
These are instruments from a show that I saw at the Edinburgh Festival last month. It was one of the best things I’ve seen. I’ll be explaining more soon.
At the weekend I spent the late evenings in the dark, or almost dark, with nothing but a couple of candles and my iPad. That’s one of the things I love about mobile music. Being able to sit out in a forest in the dark and make music.
Just some more pictures from the mute short circuit festival at the roundhouse the other weekend.
I am Ashley Elsdon 