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Exposed To Infinity – My EP on Bandcamp

I’ve signed up with Bandcamp today and published my first 4-track EP/Album. It’s called Exposed To Infinity, (another phrase from Ted Hughes). It’s around 29 minutes long and sports my own painting as...

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The Dark Lull

Subtitle: The Structure Of A Glitchy Haze. Or perhaps that should be, “A Trumpet Of Ones Own”, but if I can’t blow my own trumpet on my own blog then where can I? This is old news now but worth...

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Melt Water – Free mp3

This particularly musical dripping water sound caught my ear recently. I recorded it on my old iPhone 3GS; the only thing I had to hand at the time. The sound quality is pretty poor but it served as...

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Gregorian Drone

This weekend I made my first proper contribution to the Disquiet Junto and attempted this weeks project No. 63. More on this 63th Disquiet Junto project at:...

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Even Keel

Still playing with stretched guitar chords. You’d be forgiven for thinking was a repeat of, “From Sea To Sierra”, for the first 1.15 minutes but it’s quite radically different after that. I have quite...

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Generative Music Apps

The other day @roamin posted a link on twitter to an article from May 17, 2011 by Mark Weidenbaum called, When Cells Collide I found it very interesting and went to The App Store and downloaded,...

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Even Keel EP Out Now On Bandcamp

Recently I have been carving out a presence for myself on Last.fm. This has been a little tricky as there is already a singer-songwriter called Mark Ward occupying the page that would be mine. I don’t...

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From Sea To Sierra – Video

I have cobbled together some Hipstamatic photographs taken on the 3MP built in camera of an iPhone 3GS into a video. The pictures show the area around Burbage Moor in the Peak District National Park....

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A Glitch In The Matrix

My quest to make the best use of Ableton Live and acquire a reasonable level of home studio equipment continues. I still don’t possess a decent pair of studio monitors and so have to play my tracks...

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Ambient Mix #001

  I have finally got hold of a pair of decent studio monitors. After a lot of research I went for KRK Rokit 5 G2′s. I was already very impressed with the KRK closed back KNS-6400 headphones so I...

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Almost Without Form

This is derived from a recording I made some time ago of wind chimes. I like the peaceful sound and feeling and would like to develop this further. It’s actually the idea from the Disquiet Junto...

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Voyager One – Plasma Wave

It’s 36-years since the launch of the Voyager-1 space probe and it has now officially entered interstellar space. One of the proofs of this fact are these recordings from Voyager-1, fed through radio...

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Ambient Mix #003

I moved house a couple of weeks ago. Space is very tight and there’s not enough room to set up all my instruments and music hardware at the moment. This is frustrating and means I won’t be able to...

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One Moon Appears Everywhere

I published my third EP yesterday. The title is gleaned from Thomas Cleary’s The Pocket Zen Reader. Feel free to stream or buy via the Bandcamp widget above. The sleeve notes which accompany the album...

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Water Dub

  I love listening to dub techno but never really understood how to make it. With that in mind I’ve delved a little deeper into the workings and capabilities of Ableton Live. It really is a very...

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Aeolian Metrics

I have been exploring the creation of rhythmic, dub techno style sounds by manipulating field recordings in Ableton Live 8.4.1. so this weeks project follows on very nicely from what I’ve been doing...

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Warm Feeling

This is pure electronics & Ableton Live again. In my recent efforts to master the dub techno style I seem to have strayed into Berlin School territory… I’m pleased about that and I’d like to...

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Warm Feeling – The Video

I have made a simple video for my recent Warm Feeling track using nothing but free software and a bit of creative nouse. I set up my digital camera on a tripod in front of the computer screen, played...

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Electronica EP & Compendium Album

I recently gathered together my last three musical offerings into a short Name Your Price EP called Electronica which you can stream here or listen and download in high quality audio on Bandcamp…   I...

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E Minor Blues

Last weekend I went up to Burbage which is in the Peak District National Park just a few miles beyond the city boundary from where I live in Sheffield. On a warm sunny afternoon it’s a beautiful place...

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