I’ve been known to use the phrase ‘its like playing a piano while wearing boxing gloves’ to describe certain situations, so this made me smile…

Zoe Keating performing Tetrishead and live at Pop!Tech

For me, most projects have three distinct phases; the initial inspiration, the development phase, and finishing/delivery. So rant#1 is about the beginning, the inspiration. “in my beginning is my end, in my end is my beginning” T S Eliot So…

The Ducks are Just Sleeping Aaron Martin performs his multi-instrumental piece at the 2006 Open Cinema Screening. His restraint is admirable!

This threadless T shirt made me laugh. But I think theres a few other objects they could add to the Matchless Socks layer: – RCA/jack adaptors – the recordings I made straight into ProTools & didnt rename (Audio1_01.wav etc) –…

How do you get things finished? I only ask because I have one answer for other peoples projects (film sound design, music projects) and no cognitive answer for my own projects… and as I am in the process of starting…

Back in 2005 we did sound design for a NZ film called World’s Fastest Indian and its a film that people still comment about today, primarily because its one hell of a true story based on the life of a…

Some of these are funny… and so so wrong, especially the one about ‘Nursing Baby’    

Usually when people use the word analogue they mean ‘not digital” as in electronics, but this drum machine is even more retro than that – we’re talking valves & electro-mechanical hardware… and what a beautiful sound – all that hiss…

Someone asked me about copyright of any sounds and/or music on this website and as I havent ever stated it I thought I would, as I am also in the process of setting up a little music netlabel & have…

Wahoo! This blog is one year old!!! Well, the truth is that its a little over one year old, but its been one year since I setup the means to track who visits… and so where do you all come…

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This evening, 42 years ago, The Beatles went into Abbey Road Studios from 8pm until 1.15am to start recording what I consider the best song of their entire career. And it was take 3 of the rhythm section that made…

Shame its so expensive, sigh.. (US$1100) I guess i’ll just have to wait for someone to model it with software… Available here and found via ektopia who found it via make zine who found it via the automata/automaton blog –…

Every now & again I come across a musician who is also a graphic designer, and it seems the two vocations have some common ground… Hence its not uncommon to come across some inspired graphic projects involving clever sound/music all…

I’m not a huge fan of acoustic folk music, but when its good its really very very good… I heard this song on the radio in the middle of the night & woke enough to txt myself the artist/song name,…

About one person in every thousand literally smells sounds – the general term is synaesthesia although that also includes people who see sounds, hear paintings etc… But I got to thinking about sounds that smell the other day when un-volunteering…

I know someone does, based on the little red dots on my clustr map Anyway I am working on a small project for which I need some authentic ambience recordings from Greece, so if you are a sound recordist based…

Terje Isungset is a Norwegian musician and percussionist who primarily plays intruments made from ice. He has a blog but his record label website has a bit more information about instruments: “The instruments are made from top quality ice. It…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc The image below comes from a Psychology textbook…. and I think conclusively illustrates spiders shouldn’t drink coffee! click on image for large version Heres a clip of Ali G interviewing a representative from UK Drug Enforcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqZKW1WEVlM The funniest…