Please note the date on this post – I have no plans for more virtual sound design interns – see this article Empathy is a character trait I value. Highly. I heard a psychologist interviewed on the radio a year…
Atonality, Naming Goats & The Ecology of Creativity
I can’t claim any of the great subjects in the title of this post as my own; each one is an article on the fascinating site: Thinking Applied…. but it was the one on Atonality that led me to first…
The Creative Cost of Piracy
Everyone knows piracy is an issue, and the worst kind of piracy has to be the leak. There is no greater insult to an artist than for their work to be stolen & released to the world before it is…
No mind
“When I improvise there’s no mind. I’m just there. I fiddle around. It’s like a painter would do, just fantasise a little bit. I’m not thinking about this shit, it’s just something I do. Mind messes everything up. When inspiration…
25 Things
Someone tagged me on Facebook with the 25 things meme, so i thought I’d paste it here too. So heres 25 random things about me 1. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is the first film I ever saw. My grandmother…
Music Thoughts
Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, has launched a new site called Music Thoughts which pretty much sums up its sole purpose – as a repository for music related quotes & thoughts, heres a random example from Robert Fripp: It…
Ambient Sequencer AS606!
Check it out here Funny! I used to use half empty packets of zigzags to achieve the same results ie jamming down keys for infinite sustain…
Stashing ideas In the real world…
Do you own a Moleskin? If not, then make it your next purchase…. why? Because they are perfectly designed to collect ideas while you go about life in the real world, thats why! Hell, they even make one for people…