someone who's doing some things
I love music. Making music, listening, talking about it and anything else too.
There’s quite a few things I’m looking forward to in March to be fair. Here’s a selection:
There’s a few more too, but that lot is worth waiting for if nothing else. Lots of new music coming. Excellent.
http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F10846684 ICA Solder a Score by PalmSounds
I’ve posted this at Palm Sounds as well, but I wanted to post it here too as it really was an interesting performance, and quite inspiring all round.
I have two albums by Yukihiro Takahashi and I love them both. I listened to them again today for the first time in a long time and remembered just how wonderful they both were. Emotional, moving, fun electronica.
It doesn’t get much better than that.
I got some time today to move along my next set of tracks, or rather I should say, continue to experiment with the raw material and see where it takes me.
I’ve been using Jasuto Pro to manipulate samples through a gate and a variety of filters and effects which are triggered from a sequencer module. I’m quite pleased with the results actually. Although, I’m not sure quite where it’ll fit into the final piece.
Even so, it has been an enormous amount of fun so far to make.
I got to spend some time with my latest music project yesterday. I’ve been experimenting with processing audio through Jasuto which has had some interesting results.
As I said before, I think that the creative process in making these soundscapes may end up being more satisfying that the actual finished product, but at the moment I’m not worrying too much about that. I think I’ll enjoy the process for now and see where I end up with in a couple of months.
My current musical project has had a bit of a stall this week. It isn’t that I’ve lost interest in doing it, rather everything else has taken priority over time this week and so nothing creative has had time to squeeze out.
I’m hoping that I might be able to put that right today or tomorrow. We’ll have to see later, but ideally I’d like to get this project finished this month. It think it is possible, but that doesn’t mean it is likely sadly.
I managed to get some more work done on my next musical project today. I wasn’t expecting to get much done, but I got a little work completed which felt good. The first phase of the project was quite straightforward, but the next phase is a lot less certain. It is a lot more experimental and I don’t have any fixed idea of what I want to achieve or how I want to achieve it.
I guess the fun is in the discovery or the journey rather. I’ll see how it shapes next week.
I’ve started working on my next musical project which is called ‘Back and Forth‘. It’s a lot different to my last little project, ‘Micro Process‘. Instead it is based on a series of field recordings made using RJDJ and then processed with some other applications.
I hope to have it done by the end of the month, but you know about plans right?
Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting some more work done on it and experimenting, because that’s the best part!
I’ve finally got around to finishing this off and I do quite like it really. Micro Process is 5 little tracks made on a Palm OS PDA and recorded using a Boss Micro BR. I’ve made it a page all to itself so if you want to have a listen you can find it here.
Martyn was an amazing musician. I only have one of his albums, but I I love some of the tracks on it, and it is very special indeed. Today in 2005 he died.
I didn’t know him. I only exchanged emails with him once but his music is and was amazing and unique.
If you want to know more about his work then look here.
I am Ashley Elsdon 