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The Heath Echoes
#jamuary2022 – Day 02 – Continuing with working from a random moment that happens in the day, Crossing Blackheath London after dropping someone off. Thought this could be a starting point for something for #jamuary day 2. The heath sparked thoughts of Dick Turpin the Highway man who plied his trade on the heath in the early1700’s.… Read more
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Distant City
I have been inspired to try and attempt to carry out the #jamuary2020 challenge after hearing about it in Brian Funk’s Brian Funk’s Music Production podcastwhich I listen to.
I don’t expect to produce anything earth-shattering but I am doing it to hopefully force myself to attempt something musical each day of January 2022.… Read more
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Podcasts I currently listen to
Here are some of the podcasts I listen to….
The Blindboy Podcast
Hosted by Blindboy, of the Rubberbandits. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.
Blindboy Boatclub
https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy
Syntax
Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences.… Read more
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Here today, Gone Tomorrow!
A long gap in anything here. Why? Because I mentioned before that the person who was most closest to me was very ill. She died and I could not find any way or reason to try and continue with my lockdown experiment here.… Read more
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Art for Art’s Sake!
Seventy-Five Year VE day anniversary 8th May 2020. Doodle while on Zoom Zoom catch up with mates (showing remnants of quiz answers and beer bottle tops)! Letting things take their course led me to the title of the post and then thoughts of the song by the innovative 10cc.… Read more
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Have Faith?
Today (8th May 2020) has significance for a couple of reasons. Today is the 75th anniversary of VE day when World War Two ended (1945 for those not too hot with their maths :-)). On a personal level, it is also two years since my Mothers funeral.… Read more
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Me & Pharrell Williams!
How could my life ever become entwined with Pharrell Williams? It hasn’t, of course, but in my new spirit of letting things take their ‘artistic’ course, I will explain.
- I had decided to revive my music-making as an additional interest/distraction to help me cope with getting through the current coronavirus lockdown.
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Unified
Another sound experiment (inspired by Philip Glass). I installed a useful piece of software called VB-CABLE which allows me to record sound from my computer into music software. For instance, I have used it to get sounds into Ableton Live, Reaper and Audacity.… Read more