If a white noise machine is good for sleep & meditation, then just imagine how well you would sleep/meditate with this lot tuned off station! Place them all around the house, for that spatial experience…    …

    From the Machine: Volume 1 by Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte ▶ From the Machine: Volume 1 by Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte Joseph Branciforte: “the music for this album was composed entirely in the max/msp environment (with…

    Posting this on my blog, as a permanent public waypoint. One of the many joys of shooting XPAN is being a member of the XPAN online community, which provides a window into the work of XPAN photographers from…

    There is a supermoon + total lunar eclipse tomorrow night! Maximum eclipse at 11.15pm with start maybe 10pm… Details here #NZ        

    One of the libraries I am currently working on is a big FOLIAGE library. Not AMB although some spot elements would be possible. This is my record list so far: – Leafy branch moves, shakes, swishes, hits &…

        ▶ interesting book: Make time for creativity from the founder of Creative Independent site     ▶ The Big Bang artwork that makes scientists cry     ▶ CAN – 1975 Stuttgart     ▶ I…

    Ok this is pretty niche, but I figured I would document them while I have them in mint condition! One of the most important differences between the XPAN 1 and XPAN II for me is the long exposure…

      Fujifilm TX2/XPAN2 with Kodak Tmax100      

    Someone on the VI Forum/SFX asked a question about sound library formatting, specifically about the chocie between [1 take per file] and [multiple takes per file] “One oddity I’ve run into is that sometimes, a wav file in…

    Much thanks to VEIMA Synth Auctions      

      Fujifilm TX2/XPAN2 with Kodak Tmax100      

      Fujifilm TX2/XPAN2 with Kodak Tmax100      

            According to the rain radar it looks like I have another half hour or so…        

    Setup #3 = rain falling onto three waterphones! Managed to fit a DPA4060 into each of the two ‘normal’ waterphones… And a pair of MKH8020 into the giant waterphone        

    Switched over to 2x metal buckets & 2 x steel pan drums… Tuned steel drums = rain with quantized pitch! Next = waterphones        

    Pouring with rain on a Monday morning = trying some unconventional 4 channel rain recording! Listening on headphones in real time is quite strange, switching between pairs of granular metal resonance… Forecast says rain off & on all…

    me: niche tweet: who is old enough to remember ProTools FADES Folders? I used to love browsing them, especially from AMB sessions – it was like listening to little hissy ramps & percussive decays… Might have to restore…

      And here I was, thinking it was just an ironic niche meme…        

    ▶ Perceptual recordings     ▶ sound design goals? SOAE     ▶ Barkers DIY plate verb     ▶ BBC: Listening to the deep with Jana Winderen     ▶ also BBC, this Sunday: Delia Derbyshire: The…