Music of Sound

 

euclid via cdm

 

 

 

 

 

 

> Sorry folks, am too busy being intensely productive for detritus at the moment! Only three weeks until predubs for O Le Tulafale, and am off on field trip #2 to Samoa on Thursday….. Normal transmission will resume sometime…. mid/late July, if not before!

 

 

Call me a certifiable-eurorack-modular-synth-addict, but yesterday I had the most fun in ages installing new modules and then having a jam! Here is a photo of the patch I was playing with:

 

 

Modules recently added: Cwejman BLD, AS RS88, Morphing Terrarium, Dual Cyclotron, A154/A155/A156, FOH Choices, RCD, Metasonix R54, Zorlon Cannon, A138m, Z2040, OSC303… And OMFG you should hear it!!!

 

The next upgrade is going to be of the furniture variety: I’ve just initiated the process of having a Goikes 15U case built to rehouse all of my synth modules, heres the prototype from his site, the only difference is that I am going to have it built using Kauri native timber!

 

 

If you want to see one fully loaded have a look at this photo

 

Kauri is such beautiful wood – I’ve been keeping an eye out for some and often see wood that is carbon dated to be 45,000 years old! Obviously it will be salvaged/recycled kauri – theres no way anyone would want to cut down these majestic ancient trees!

 

 

ps for anyone local interested in getting hooked started with Eurorack modules, as soon as I migrate everything to the new case I’ll have two G6 cases, 2 G6 racks and a G3 rack up for sale… Drop me a line if you’re interested in reserving one!

 

“Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together…. ”
More info here

 

> Time goes, you say? Ah no, alas, time stays, we go – Sam Burford creates works of genius, compressing the duration & media of films into sculptures & new images….

 

> Basically channelled: Homage a Maurizio by Textural Being on the dub techno blog….
and on soundcloud

 

> These cinemagraphs are so beautifully conceived & executed, I especially like this one – it feels like a film I’d like to see:

 

 

> So you think you have a big sound library? Apple just bought 12PB (petabytes!)

 

> A simple guide to living on the cloud

 

> An interesting read: Rethinking Music

 

> Michael Moores salient thoughts on Osama Bin Ladens death

 

>The new Ryuichi Sakamoto/Alva Noto album Summvs is quite simply gorgeous!

 

 

> Mmmm interesting music blog worth a look/listen: The box and the ghost in it

 

> Zadie Smiths philosophical review of The Social Network movie is deeply fascinating:
Generation why? Indeed, it questions a lot more than just the movie – essential reading!

 

> 100 posts of detritus huh? When I posted the first one ages ago the idea of posting 100 would have seemed highly unlikely… Weirdly it coincides with finishing the mix of the Cirque 3D project… Started final mix Monday 2nd May, 12 days ago, and in those 12 days I clocked in 142 hours of work! For people who work a 40 hour week thats like doing three and a half weeks work in 12 days non stop! Exhausted? That would be an understatement…. But as I know from previous experience, when you finally reach the end of a BIG deadline there soon follows a flood of inspired & personally important ideas, as all the projects & seeds of ideas that have been suppressed while obsessing over the deadline resurface…. Hallelujah! Let freedom reign! (Going outside during daylight hours has some novelty too!!)

 

Music video by local Ned Wenlock, for the band Danger Beach on Dream Damage Records