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Oh yes, a video
For the visually inclined, here’s a film clip I made for one of the tracks on Air from here, a cassette and digital release on artisan American label Æescape Sounds. Read more about this release Oh boy, let me buy it!
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That Well Over Five Years feeling
The last time I posted here about making music was around six years ago, with some of my first forays into solo soundmaking. Since then there has been just one digital EP release but a lot of furious paddling below the surface. Now I’m astounded to announce my first foray into physical product, through the quite wonderful U.S. label Æscape […]
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Beer clowns
SORRY IF IT WAS BEER that brought you here. This is the second post I’ve done that collides with the world of alcohol, but its influence is indirect. Or is that derelict? Take one beer mat, also known as a coaster, left to coast. Abandoned to the rain, fanned by the breeze of passing truck tonnage, despised even by snails. […]
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Raspberry & Rocket
TEN STICKY TEXTURES TO PLAY WITH. Lovely new neighbours gave us home grown raspberries. Aside from the fact that they’d make opulent bangles for stylish fairies, they leave very attractive stains (this is raspberries, not the neighbours). So does rocket, if you really give it a good squeeze. Leaping ahead, my little brain said “they’d make nice textures”. Well alright, […]
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For seventy 3
CATS WRITE MUSIC. It’s one of their less well known attributes. When a black cat walks across your laptop, the results can be disastrous or useful. That’s the genesis of this track. Making a languorous and quite oblivious passage across the keys, our cat activated the voice-over function, which began to narrate the contents of an open IRC window with […]
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Green Grotto, Blue Grotto
I’VE READ THAT KIDS IN THE EAST END of London made grottos. It required a vaguely curatorial eye for whatever pretties or curiosities could be scrounged up and displayed on the doorstep. People payed to look. I like this idea very much. It’s a pre Second World War pop-up museum with a lovely child’s sense of shrewdness and irony, […]
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Temperance texture sampler
FREE TEXTURES FOR DEAR READERS. If you ‘suffer’ from the same tendency as me, you might like this. I’ve always got at least one eye on a scouting mission for new textures, surfaces with pattern or patina, grain or grime. I use them in designs and illustrations, for adding something new or unexpected to a flat patch, and sometimes, by […]
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Road patch
Eccentric machines are roaming our street. While the daffodils make up a benign and nodding army just below, something the council sent us is making hell’s racket. Part needy, huge-baby bird, part sadly lowing calf, it has two day-glo jacketed attendants to do its bidding. Whatever that bidding is. I managed to capture just a corner of its noise with […]
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Lost folksong
A poem made from spam somerset tull Of dellslow the fernwood And beeville on glenwild Soft Eden for You! I an twig on the brierfield furor foxhole of wherewith by wherewithal bambi embanks In manure be cabal Or bumble in venom The marshland be servitude Of itself husk The bonnyman a maplewood percussive persimmon Tree Leaf Green bean great […]