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Roland A-500PRO
I had the feeling Ableton Live could do a lot, lot more than what I was doing with it. I was using my computer keyboard and mouse to control it. While this does work it’s incredibly fiddly and time...
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Broadcast #4: The Found Sounds of 2012 by oh/ex/oh
This has been a good year for me in musical terms. I’ve discovered Ableton Live, various other audio software and acquired a nice MIDI keyboard controller to compliment my guitar hardware. I’ve...
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The Whole Rainy Stony Earth
Click on the Arrow/Speaker icon below to listen Download: the-whole-rainy-stony-earth.mp3 8.56 minutes, 20.5MB streaming mp3 file, 320kbps Free download or listen on the SoundCloud Player below I have...
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Exposed To Infinity – My EP on Bandcamp
I’ve signed up with Bandcamp today and published my first 4-track EP/Album. It’s called Exposed To Infinity, (another phrase from Ted Hughes). It’s around 29 minutes long and sports my own painting as...
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The Dark Lull
Subtitle: The Structure Of A Glitchy Haze. Or perhaps that should be, “A Trumpet Of Ones Own”, but if I can’t blow my own trumpet on my own blog then where can I? This is old news now but worth...
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Gregorian Drone
This weekend I made my first proper contribution to the Disquiet Junto and attempted this weeks project No. 63. More on this 63th Disquiet Junto project at:...
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Even Keel
Still playing with stretched guitar chords. You’d be forgiven for thinking was a repeat of, “From Sea To Sierra”, for the first 1.15 minutes but it’s quite radically different after that. I have quite...
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Even Keel EP Out Now On Bandcamp
Recently I have been carving out a presence for myself on Last.fm. This has been a little tricky as there is already a singer-songwriter called Mark Ward occupying the page that would be mine. I don’t...
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From Sea To Sierra – Video
I have cobbled together some Hipstamatic photographs taken on the 3MP built in camera of an iPhone 3GS into a video. The pictures show the area around Burbage Moor in the Peak District National Park....
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A Glitch In The Matrix
My quest to make the best use of Ableton Live and acquire a reasonable level of home studio equipment continues. I still don’t possess a decent pair of studio monitors and so have to play my tracks...
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Almost Without Form
This is derived from a recording I made some time ago of wind chimes. I like the peaceful sound and feeling and would like to develop this further. It’s actually the idea from the Disquiet Junto...
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Voyager One – Plasma Wave
It’s 36-years since the launch of the Voyager-1 space probe and it has now officially entered interstellar space. One of the proofs of this fact are these recordings from Voyager-1, fed through radio...
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One Moon Appears Everywhere
I published my third EP yesterday. The title is gleaned from Thomas Cleary’s The Pocket Zen Reader. Feel free to stream or buy via the Bandcamp widget above. The sleeve notes which accompany the album...
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Electronica EP & Compendium Album
I recently gathered together my last three musical offerings into a short Name Your Price EP called Electronica which you can stream here or listen and download in high quality audio on Bandcamp… I...
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Nature/Nurture
Nature/Nurture is my fifth EP, (not counting Compendium which was a, “Best of…”, collection). There are a number of techniques both old and new at play here ranging from dubby guitar treatments and...
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Sea Song
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream to the ocean. The cover photograph was taken in Scarborough on the North Yorkshire coast in 2008. The sound of the sea was also recorded in Scarborough...
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Rise EP
Recorded in Sheffield during September and October 2014 this EP was originally released on 17 January 2015 on the short-lived net-label, Dischi Senza Parole. The sound of the sea was recorded in...
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