> Have any of you lurkers ever attempted a 365 project? I’m thinking about doing it for 2013, but not to shoot a photo every day as per p365 or upload music/sound every day as per ubu but to do any of these things, i.e. release something new online every day for a year:
a photo, a field recording, a piece of music, a video, some writing…
Anyone attempted it? Was it fun or detrimental to your sanity?
MR-808 – mechanic drum robot from Sonic Robots on Vimeo.
“MR-808 is a replica of the famous 1980s electronic drum machine TR-808 – with robots playing the drum sounds…..” (thanks Tom)
> Retrobeat – cute retro beatbox for Reaktor (& a number of other great instruments & FX!)
> “The only thing people regret is that they didn’t ….”
> Exploring the impact Arvo Pärt’s piece for piano and violin Spiegel im Spiegel has had on people’s lives (warning: may put a tear in your eye)
> Quotestumbler “Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.” – Arnold Bennett
> And another: “To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves… We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here–with its gift of energy and heightened awareness – so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.” – Peter McWilliams
Point Cloud from James Leng on Vimeo.
> Do you know how R2D2 got his name? (hint: dialogue editors rule!)
silence: Shiro Takatani 120604 from shiro takatani on Vimeo.
> Are you sure your love of music/sound isn’t actually an addiction to ASMR? One symptom: “listening to certain soft or distant, and usually repetitive, sounds like a bouncing tennis ball, trickling water, or construction noises like tapping hammers.”
TORTURED CYMBALS from tim prebble on Vimeo.
First new HISSandaROAR library of the year, and its one that I have literally been recording for a year, as the starting point was the HISSandaROAR Xmas present last year! TORTURED CYMBALS will be released later this week – join the mailing list if you’d like to be notified of when its available…
