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: http://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: http://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)
Muriwai photos
Heres a few photos of Muriwai, a beautiful beach on the West Coast, about an hour from Auckland.. is there anything more relaxing than waking to hear the roar of the ocean? (click photo for large version)
How R2D2 got his name
Here is the perfect gift for the Star Wars fan that has everything – an R2D2 media centre/video projector/ipod dock! But wait theres more! A Millenium Falcon remote control! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpVQ_BXZOHw I think R2D2 is one the coolest robots in film…
Amiina
Best use of a musical saw, ever! As mentioned briefly amongst the photos in the last post I saw Amiina play in Auckland with Sigur Ros & they were sublime! I think the fist time I ever heard of Amiina…
Gong water? Hmmmm? Must try this myself….
Why, if sound waves travel faster through water, will the pitch of a metal gong go down when you immerse it? One knowledable sounding person answers: “Water provides more resistance to physical motion (vibration, in this case) than does air.…
Remote Collaboration via cineSync
We rely on iChat constantly when working on a film, mainly in text form although its very handy for directly sending EDLs/changelists & audiofiles without having to upload/download via ftp etc… This applies between cities & countries but also even…
Tracking the (random) flow
Ok, so I am hereby soliciting a real world/practitioners opinions here, not theories… no ‘i heard this was kinda good…’ or ‘i read this on a blog somewhere as being applicable…’ I want to know what works (or doesnt) for…
Sonic Childhood Memories
Ok so I am hoping to only write one hundredth of this post, since I know/suspect pretty much everyone who reads these random rants of mine is (a) sentient and (b) has keen ears…. So I am going to ask…
A Few Questions – Part I
I was sent a few questions via email the other day from a random stranger & I thought I would post my reply here; not to provide any universal truths (because there are none) but hopefully to provoke thought and/or…
reSEARCH: Aztec Death Whistle
“MEXICO CITY (AP) – Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand. But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When…
MUSIC & NATURE
I’ve just started reading a book which is actually written by quite a few sound & music liminaries under the loose topic of Music & Nature. It is edited by David Rotherberg and Marta Ulvaeus and is divided into four…
I LOVE new music/New Music I LOVE
Generally speaking, its a good day when I become aware of some new music, as in music I have never heard before & rapidly love… if I zoomed out for a very wide shot of the cultural planet I would…
Feeling Generative?
if so, then I suggest you check out Nodal Pictured above is my first noodle with Nodal – I set up a really basic pattern in Nodal & told Olga in LIVE to play whatever MIDI came its way… Nodals…