XLN released a new plugin & app recently, called LIFE I own & quite like their drum machine plugin XO so I checked out LIFE and even installed the demo. So what does LIFE do? Well it does two seperate…
Summer colour palette
via Picton #nz dinghy
Taking requests: SMACK MY SUV UP!
I am open to #sounddesign requests! My old Isuzu SUV is going to be recycled soon… I’ve been recording impacts INT/EXT – roof, body, doors.. V6 engine has cracked head – still starts & runs but sounds ill – will…
Two new HISSandaROAR Library releases!
FX017 APARTMENT TRAFFIC – INT and EXT rush hour traffic ambiences – 50+ single car passes – 50+ single truck passes UFX026 HANOI TRAFFIC Ambient scooter cacophony – 5 way intersection in Hanoi, Vietnam recorded from rooftop bar
Monochrome Roses
Canon 1V SLR with Zeiss 50 ZE F1.4 lens and Kodak Tmax100 will try making some prints of these
Detritus 721
▶ A good book for field recordists & photographers: Eric Sloane’s Weather book ▶ Aardman is running out of clay and have only got enough to make the next ‘WALLACE & GROMIT’ film. The…
Roses from my Mothers Garden
Title sounds like a schmaltzy UK drama… With my Dads passing & my Mum being in a carehome, their home is on the market and my last road trip down South was partly to help clear it out. Being Spring…
Robin Hood Bay, Port Underwood
Its starting to feel like Summer in NZ!
nuzic 245
▶ Freddie McGregor – Big Ship Sailing ▶ Protoje – Late at Night Ft. Lila Iké ▶ Mungo’s Hi Fi ft Lady Ann – Good Lovin ▶ Bob Marley – So Much…
Retro Titles
Got myself a retro film title kit from a junk store in Mayfield today… Given the state of the world, expect some stop motion cursing!!
Moritz von Oswald – Silencio
“This short documentary accompanies Moritz von Oswald on the journey to his album Silencio and searches for an answer to the question if synthesizers can sing. The compositions were written in Moritz von Oswald’s Berlin studio on classic synthesizers, such…
Observed
“When a Mummy road cone and a Daddy road cone love each other very much, they….”
Beech Forest
I’ve always loved Beech Forests – such dense wood, and hard to photograph as is so dark, and the surface bark of the trees is almost sooty… Canon 5D3 and Zeiss 50mm F1.4 ZE…
Detritus 720
▶ via plus photos ▶ fascinating read: The secret history of our (NZ) nuclear-free policy ▶ new hearing aid customers self identifying at 0.12 ▶ The Larry Katz collection, 1980-2005 consists of…
BASS!
Two new HISSandaROAR libraries just released! SD062 DIRTY BASS Worldizing analog synth sub bass with Buchla Easel, SH101, MS10, Cat SRM, Livewire AFG via 300W Trace Elliot Bass Amp, Dayton Bass Shakers + IR4 Speakers https://hissandaroar.com/v3/soundlibrary/sd062-dirty-bass/ Note: its not a…
Hissing
Sunsets
Mana Island at dusk, shot from my couch first photo = 20231104 second & third, tonight = 20231105 Canon 5D3 with Zeiss 50mm F1.4 ZE prime lens
Mt White
Fujifilm 35mm Natura Black 24mm/F1.9 lens with Kodak Portra400
Michael Kenna – Photographs & Stories
Beautiful new photobook by Michael Kenna just arrived via Nazraeli Press – preordered 20230908, arrived 20231102! So great to see his photos (Hasselblad 500 medium format) but equally fascinating to read the story behind each, as he has…