Very fiddly to get alignment right… Too much velocity or wrong position & the gong starts swaying & missing beats… Bit of gaffer tape on the beater to soften attack too…      

Recording some long takes of disembodied drumming…      

Seatoun     Shelly Bay     Lyall Bay        

Maybe a useful PSA for any #ProTools users: You can use Michael Norris spectral plugins (or any AU or VST) in ProTools via BlueCat Patchwork plugin! Spectral dronemaker… nom nom    

              I’ve been printing long-duration recordings through a little subset of my modular synth… Which I shall forever more refer to as ‘listening to the snail’      

Whistling Sisters- Ginger Rush      

    Only Human by KH ▶ KH/Four Tet – Only Human     Midnight Rocker by Horace Andy ▶ Horace Andy – Safe From Harm     Midnight Rocker by Horace Andy ▶ Horace Andy — Watch Over Them…

Sapporo in a sake glass    

Arrived with the pineapples! Can’t wait to dive in via blank forms    

At last got some pineapples! I’ve been hunting for some for six months… All the supermarket ones have tops cut off so you can’t regrow them. These are from Whangarei farmers market & they smell delicious!      

I have profound admiration for the parents of any child learning violin (or any instrument requiring manual intonation) – rewards are life long but the early days/weeks/months of practice must be tough… Photo credit: [Edgar Richard Williams?] playing a violin,…

  Me: hmmm hard to describe… Also me: here’s a photo        

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Not Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Perfection is never achieved… Anyhoo… I love seeing Piccasos reductive process – The…

Every year Aotearoa/NZ has ‘NZ Music Month’ #nzmusicmonth which (I think?) was first instigated to guilt/force commercial radio into actually playing any NZ music at all… Decades later it remains as an endearing anachronism, and accordingly RadioNZs great NZ Music…

I’ve had two of these goddamn USB2 sockets break on bits of gear. One was relatively easy to fix: an iConnect MIDI 4+ interface where it seems the front two pins broke on the USB socket broke and it was…

May need cowbell…     What a fantastic colour pallet! The past is a foreign country    

It was actually Instagram, which insisted on knowing when my birthday was… Weirdly that was the oldest I was ‘allowed’ to be Take a hint Insta you dork!      

    ▶ Black Flower feat. Meskerem Mees – Morning In The Jungle Love her voice & the spoken word part… also a very clever music video: “The circular camera rig was handmade just for the purpose of this video…

Maybe better conversion & crop of drone photo… I checked Topomap but the stream has no name noted there, so I called it boundary stream for now, as it is on the boundary between Peka Peka and Te Horo… Here…

          Ryoji Ikeda | solo exhibition Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art 2-1 Yoshino-cho, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan