Messing with two sets of tuned pipes… overtones galore! When I do eventually sample them, going to try using dual mono – playing the same note on both sets at the same time, but spaced & mic’d seperately……

    Yesterday I was given this older parabolic dish & it came in this fantastic case… Time to #normalise ostentatious baggage for #fieldrecording ?     The actual parabolic dish… Dan Gibson EPM Model P500 Apparently if you angle…

    ▶ Rap God in sign language     ▶ Metal Shows via sign language (they should be like this when signing Politicians!)     ▶ More on the Bourdain doco AI deep fake voice     ▶ LOL:…

      Will write more on the providence of this library tomorrow…      

    Bones & Claves, Stones & Blocks…      

    Perfect day for… working on metadata :/ Also…   ‘rain on long wire’ recording… raindrops act like tiny impulses, triggering long wire resonance From an oblique angle, looks like a science experiment…        

    Me and a bunch of friends drove to The Portage for New Year Must have been mid 1980s… pre-Internet!        

        ▶ Is this progress?     ▶ A cup of maintaining my baseline please?     ▶ Oblique Rave Strategies     ▶ perfect juxtaposition, twitter algorithm…. what indeed     ▶ sage advice..    …

    My main mic rig for FOLIAGE recording… Three mics, two mic stands – 8040/8050/8040 for LCR, and best part of the weird mic stand setup is that it is really stable! The forest floor is never flat &…

      CONGA GLISSANDO / MOOSE CALL I always wondered what they were called, thanks James!      

    ▶ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – Todd Haynes doco good review at indiewire     ▶ unintended consequences: weaponising music copyright?     ▶ Inoffensive Language for the Music of Sound world! a useful blog post and a link…

    ▶ a classic..     ▶ Heavenchord – Forest Wind     ▶ Mathimidori – Maiia (Deadbeat’s Dub)     ▶ Rod Modell – Transmission D – BC        

Since borders remain closed I thought especially for anyone offshore that the new online exhibition of Len Lye at 120 might be of interest! But before that a virtual visit to the gorgeous Govett Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth, home…

Apart from recording Transmitter mast cables this week, I’ve also been experimenting with long wires. Two wires were connected from a window in my studio, out to trees in the garden. In this video, the right-hand wire is 30metres/100ft long…

    I often see people (reddit, forums etc) trying to ID a sound, so I am writing an article about “how to interrogate a sound” i.e. techniques to work out how a sound was created… So my Q: what…

    Different story yesterday with strong NW wind!!      

    Who leaves a hefty subwoofer lying on side of the road? I thought it must be munted, but it looks ok… will test Hmmmmm….   Googled model & brand, seems its more of a PA speaker than a…

              Very light wind today so I tried recording the aerial mast in Whitireia Park aka Titahi Bay Transmitter I could tell on headphones (and the meters) that there was a deep undulating rumble,…