I recalled an old habit today of listening to mixes of my own music from other rooms. It’s hard to explain the attraction, but maybe it’s something to do with the sounds having a transporting, ambient quality to them which is made more pronounced when given a sense of perspective.
Being close to silent spaces, with [...]
Posted in Music | Also tagged Casio SK1, faryus, sharing, sleep |
Doing well at blocking my internal audio censors at the moment, and just getting on with it. Unexpected drone manipulations from last night created through what’s become a standard process of processing, sampling, looping and re-processing the original audio source material until something interesting comes out.
Wonder if there’s a tenuous parallel there with the Burroughs/Gysin [...]
Posted in Music, Sound Research | Also tagged cut up, faryus |
I’ve returned to working on the drone tracks from my collaboration with Russian artist, Faryus recently. I’ve now got a working space set up in my new home. Though not quite my full studio of old, I’ve been using a stripped down environment running the audio output from Ableton Live on my Mac through a notepad [...]
I ran a one day DIY Contact Mic Recording workshop recently, building a DIY audio tool from a cheap Piezo transducer and a handful of joyful bits and pieces. Building the Contact Mic is quite straightforward, but I’ve created a step by step wiring guide to use during the workshop day which I’ve uploaded as a [...]
By Martin | September 10, 2009
More progress on the drone recordings that I’ve been working on. This time building from a dense filtered bass drone supplied by Andrey. I was reminded of an odd “close” feeling of the area around the “Boar’s Hole” in Oxfordshire, which I found myself in while working on the “MY…World” project last year.
I dug through [...]
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