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…
Listening to robots
Recording some long takes of disembodied drumming…
Field recording with hydrophones
Seatoun Shelly Bay Lyall Bay
ProTools x VST AU
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
Listening to the snail
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’
GINGER
Whistling Sisters- Ginger Rush
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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…
kanpai
Sapporo in a sake glass
Amacher
Arrived with the pineapples! Can’t wait to dive in via blank forms
Sweet!
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!
Short term pain for long term gain
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,…
What are you working on?
Me: hmmm hard to describe… Also me: here’s a photo
Minimalism
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…
NZ Music Month
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…
Two down
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…
Rhythm Fever!
May need cowbell… What a fantastic colour pallet! The past is a foreign country
Asked for ID
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!
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▶ 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…
Boundary stream
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…
Ikeda
Ryoji Ikeda | solo exhibition Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art 2-1 Yoshino-cho, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan