Archive for the ‘Journal’ Category
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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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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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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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Nana in the window
Here’s a picture my mother took a few days ago. The subject was spotted by my sister. It’s a privilege for Skipism to have such sharp-eyed scouts. If there was a better way to encapsulate what’s going on in with this site, I’d have been hard pressed to find it, even with an army of diligent researchers. Nana Mouskouri. There […]