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Monthly Archives: January 2009
BEST 5 of 2008
yeah yeah i know, its el cheapo journalism, what was your best 5/10/X of 20XX? Usually these things wait until journos are actually on holiday ie when content is otherwise absent… but…. whatever… I started writing it & here it is… and bear in mind some of these things were not specifically 2008, but they were part of my 2008:
5 favourite films of 2008
- The Butterfly & The Diving Bell
- No Country for Old Men
- Wall E
- Sukiyaki Western Django
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
5 favourite documentaries of 2008
- In The Shadow Of The Moon
- Up the Yanghtzee
- Note By Note
- Helvetica
- Genius of Photography
5 favourite new beaty albums of 2008
- A Mutual Antipathy by Scuba
- Underwater Dancehall by Pinch
- Wikid Times by Beat Pharmacy
- Slime and Reason by Roots Manuva
- Vantage Isle Session by Deepchord
5 favourite beatfree albums of 2008
- EP1 by Music For Bears
- Two Point Discrimination by Goldmund
- Forest Full of Drums by Mapstation & Paul Wirkus
- Do Nothing ‘Til You Hear From Me by V. Sjöberg New Jazz Ensemble
- 24 Postcards in Full Colour by Max Richter
5 most memorable sounds of 2008
- torrential rain, while in a swimming pool, on Nyepi day, Bali
- my doepfer modular
- kids playing on the Cat-Bus at the Ghibli Museum, Tokyo
- my piccolo snare
- the first cicada of summer
5 favourite/most used VSTi in 2008
- Reaktor
- Time Freezer
- Korg Analogue Edition
- Sylenth
- Olga
5 favourite/most used VST FX in 2008
- Massey Tape Delay
- Effectrix
- Lucifer
- Augustus Loop
- SoundToys FilterFreak
5 favourite/most used RTAS/TDM in 2008
- Waves Doppler
- Lowender
- Massey L2007
- TL Space
- SoundToys FilterFreak
5 favourite/most used stompbox/desktop FX in 2008
- Roland Space Echo 201
- Metasonix TM6
- Moogerfooger LPF
- JMox T-Resonator
- Sherman Filterbank
5 favourite/most used eurorack modules in 2008
- Polivoks Filter
- Doepfer A105 SSM Filter
- Doepfer A137 Wave Multiplier
- Livewire AFG
- Analogue Solutions SQ8
5 favourite/most used Sound&Music Apps in 2008
- ProTools HD
- ableton LIVE
- SoundMiner
- AudioSculpt
- Kyma
5 best/most used non-Music Apps in 2008
- Voodoo Pad Pro
- Now Up To Date
- Aperture
- MarsEdit
- Freedom
5 best/most used music/sound websites in 2008
- Gearslutz Post Forum
- Boomkat
- Matrixsynth
- The Stretta Procedure
- BBC Radio 1: Giles Peterson & Mary Anne Hobbes shows
5 best/most used non-music websites in 2008
- flickr
- metafilter
- delicious
- ffffound
- notcot
5 most consumed drinks in 2008
- V
- moscow mule
- kirin beer
- absolut vodka
- macs rockhopper pilsener beer
Now about the sponsorship deal for that last category…
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Evelyn Glennie TED talk
This is an interesting watch – I especially liked how she illustrated the difference between reading music & interpreting it:
Beautiful packaging!
I don’t quite see the point of the photos people post of unboxing their new synth/toy/whatever… at best they are crappy cardboard boxes and at worst an environmental hazard (i especially hate those polystyrene beads!) and at least big chunks of polystyrene can serve a sonic purpose: if you want to isolate something resonant so it can ‘ring’ when hit, then polystyrene is perfect. I discovered this when I went to an exhibition ages ago & the (sound) artist had built a playable sculpture using those rods builders use to reinforce concrete. He had cut them to different lengths so they were tuned, and he provided little drum sticks with piano hammers on the end of them to play with, but I noticed how all the metal rods were lieing on blocks of polystyrene… and the rods rang like bells! I’ve tried the exact same with many things, including metal pipes too big & heavy to lift…
Anyway, back to the subject; I came across this beautiful packing for a hearing aid, check it out:
Widex hearing aid packing found here
Which lets me segue into a joke I read on the ableton forum:
An old couple are in church singing hymns. The old man says to the old lady “Oh no, I just let out a silent but very very smelly fart… what should I do?” The old lady says “Get new batteries for your hearing aid.”