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Be My Enemy
Website Coma
Uh, wassat? How long have I been out? I know, I know, the last entry was a maudlin meditation on the death of an admired one, then silence. The truth is, my website has been put at the back of the queue as far as creative output goes. There's a new lady in town, her...
Death of a Musical Hero
(The following text is an excerpt from a collection of memoirs I am currently writing. 1st draft) The news that William Sinnott of the band the Shamen, had drowned in a tragic swimming accident off the shores of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, hit me like a tonne of...
Node 303
I have to be careful how I word the following entry as I would like to talk about what I'm up to creatively but not give away too much at the same time. So, expect cryptic but no spoilers. Node 303: It's the working title of a gradually evolving assembly of audio...
Shamanic Revival
taken from private journal There's a certain fine connective tissue between my creative projects. I know I’m partly guilty of flitting between proects rather than nailing down and ploughing through one idea with sustained focus. I said in an earlier entry that I’d...
Umpsquamadic Vector
I stumbled into generating Scalable Vector Graphics by accident as I was experimenting with the Wacom pen. I began with an app called ‘Assembly’ and it turned out that using fingers was more effective anyhow. I’ve spent most of my breaks this week having a go at...
Track Change
For a moment’s pause, I’ve stepped away from the audio I was working on recently. There’s only so far I can go in my break times, coupled with the infuriating inability of iOS to not be capable of downloading sound files like Wavs when away from the computer. The glue...
Strum & Bass
Strum and Bass Yesterday in some respects was a slow day in creative terms. I did experiment with GarageBand IOS. I’d seen a video on my newsfeed in the morning showing how to expand the sound of the native ‘smart guitar’. (Basically midi guitar ) output, to extend...
Umpsquamadic Peel Song: Pt 2
Umpsquamadic Peel Song: Pt 2 Last night I put guitar practice aside to nudge the Umpsquamadic Peel song along a bit further. I lined up four vocal variations of me singing the song as an overdub, in Logic. I then experimented with some plug-ins for vocal...
Rhythm Experiments.
Rhythm Experiments. Having recently listened to Trent Reznor verbally describing the process involved in producing the Nine Inch Nails track The Lovers I was particularly interested in his description of adding a type of rhythmic modulation to a sound by creating a...