The ffffound site is one of my favourite visual inspirations – basically it works like delicious except people tag images there instead of bookmarks… Heres a few recent funny/great images tagged there: And for some visual humour, I’m a fan…
Evelyn Glennie TED talk
This is an interesting watch – I especially liked how she illustrated the difference between reading music & interpreting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU3V6zNER4g
Inspiring Words
I often read books & articles on how people approach & think about their work in other creative fields, as the techniques are often either transferrable or inspire other ways of thinking about sound design and music. So if you…
My kind of gardening!
Micro Garden by Arius Blaze of Folktek While its very intriguing & makes some great sounds, it reminds me of a Len Lye kinetic sculpture which also made very beautiful sounds, without the aid of any electricity! Actually thats a…
Prepare thy piano!
Wired has an interesting interview; ‘How to mod a piano’ with the musician who goes by the name of Hauschka Wired.com: Is there a way to categorize the modifications? Is it like, things that bounce and things that tamp the…
Ólafur Arnalds
Thanks to Giles Petersons latest Worldwide show on BBC Radio One I am now a fan of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds – check this beautiful track ‘Fok’ below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ih2sWFAGYs Next stop boomkat
recent joy to my ears….
The interweb is all about sharing, so heres a rant about music ie some albums that i have recently been wearing out… its a funny thing, moving locations, because the first thing I wanted/HAD to do was establish a decent…
Muriwai photos 2
And a few random photos (click image for the large version)