PalmSounds – I am Ashley Elsdon

PalmSounds would have been 15 today

Posted by ashleyelsdonon May 25, 2021May 25, 2021in Mobile Applications, Music, UncategorizedLeave a comment

It seems odd to me that my original blog would have turned 15 years old today. Odd and slightly sad that it is no longer an ongoing thing. Like all good things, it naturally came to an end. If that were not the case, it would have been a cause for celebration. But perhaps it still should be. There were a lot of high points from my long journey with PalmSounds. I made a lot of friends. I saw a lot of people get a huge amount of enjoyment and satisfaction from using mobile devices to make music, and I saw some truly amazing technology during those years.

To mark the occasion I thought I would remember some of those high points, and share a few of them with you. Like talking at Roli’s ‘modern music industry‘ event.

And meeting Roger Linn at another event at their offices. Which was an unexpected treat.

PalmSounds brought me to Heart n Soul too. Which was an amazing experience for me with many highlights. Again, I won’t list all of them, there are simply too many, but the events we did were truly incredible experiences.

And those were just some of the high points. There were so many more.

So I’m at CDM now

Posted by ashleyelsdonon September 13, 2017September 12, 2017in Admin, Mobile Applications, MusicLeave a comment

I’ve been meaning to mention this and just haven’t gotten around to it as yet, at least not here anyway. So, PalmSounds is kind of on hold as I’ve moved writing my mobile content to CDM now. I think it’s a good move. It means that mobile music content will hopefully get a much bigger audience, and as things move and converge I believe CDM will be a better place to see that through.

And PalmSounds was 11

Posted by ashleyelsdonon June 18, 2017June 18, 2017in WritingLeave a comment

Which is kind of a big deal really. 11 years is a long time to have been running a site, any site in fact.

It’s not the big milestone that 10 was, but I think it’s still important.

Actually the old PalmSounds mobile music app directory is quite handy for old Palm OS apps

Posted by ashleyelsdonon May 13, 2016May 12, 2016in Mobile ApplicationsLeave a comment

That and the Palmorama library which has a lot of good stuff in it too. Of course a lot of those apps have gone and a lot of links lead to non-existent web sites, but then it was made in 2007, so what can you expect?

My Olegtron videos

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 12, 2016January 11, 2016in Creative Process, Sounds, TechLeave a comment

I posted them on Instagram at the weekend, but now they’re on PalmSounds, and not YouTube I’m afraid. Also, I plan to release to sound files of the Olegtron soon too, probably on SoundCloud I expect, just for simplicity.

That’s my cup ok?

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 11, 2016January 10, 2016in StuffLeave a comment

I made this years ago and it had sort of got stuck at the back of the cupboard and I’d forgotten that I even had it. So it’s good to find it again and use it. It seems to fit in quite well.

This is how good the new PalmSounds logo looks

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 11, 2016January 9, 2016in PhotographsLeave a comment

I don’t know why I didn’t do this before really. But I have now, and I like that my devices look pretty good with the new PalmSounds logo on them.

But the original Palm Sounds is still there

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 10, 2016January 9, 2016in AdminLeave a comment

So far I’ve decided to keep it there, at least for now anyway. So if you’re interested you can still find it here.

Say hello to the all new PalmSounds

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 9, 2016January 8, 2016in Mobile ApplicationsLeave a comment

If you don’t follow PalmSounds then you probably don’t know that I’ve been tinkering with it and I’ve now moved it over to WordPress. It’ll take a little while to get all sorted, there’s still a fair amount to do, but it’s a good start and it’s going to be much better once it’s fully up and running.

From PalmSounds: Thoughts for Mobile Music in 2016

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 4, 2016January 3, 2016in Mobile ApplicationsLeave a comment

One more cross post from PalmSounds. Thoughts about what we might see in mobile music in 2016. I wonder what will actually come about in that world that is really quite important to me.