It’s not every day you discover a polar bear in your laptop case I’ve been staying at my sister Kerryn‘s place this week and getting to spend some time (mostly first thing in the morning) with her boys while I’m down here doing stuff in London. This morning, as I packed to go to the [...]
Categories: 365
Manchester by Accidental Records I’ve been a Herbert fan for about twelve years. I first came across the Around The House album, constructed out of samples found (you guessed it) around the house. The Bodily Functions album was equally descriptive. A jazzhead with a sampler for a heart, Matthew Herbert has made some incredible music, [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: bandcamp, Electronic, Herbert, jazz, Matthew Herbert
Before we start, could you please clap, so I can take a photo for my blog? A bit of a rushed presentation this morning at XMediaLab’s Sounds Digital – with almost no voice left at all – but I think I managed to make the main point I was trying to make: that music in [...]
Categories: Music,New Music Strategies,Technology
Tagged: Seminar, Sounds Digital, xmedialab
My son Jake just posted his first attempt at a dubstep track up to YouTube, which – it turns out – is where all amateur dubstep (ie: the vast majority) lives. Jake’s asked me to stress that this is his first dubstep composition – but he is keen to get feedback that will help him [...]
Tagged: dubstep
