Like : The sea of spirituality – Oblivion With Bells... An interesting look at spirituality and a worry about where it's heading. | Continue reading
Just for the time being, I've added a link to my BandCamp profile to the home page but will change that to /music next week. /music will have a lot more detail, equipment info, and embedded track listings. I may even add some links to old tracks which aren't on BandCamp. | Continue reading
I'm going to have to create a new /music page for the site where I can put the BandCamp embeds etc. I'm away over the weekend so that'll be a job for next week. | Continue reading
Happy Friday! It's time... The Acid Clan EP is now live! 🥳 Four tracks of acidy goodness: Acid Clan (04:38) Creeping Anxiety (07:43) Round and Around (06:31) False Pretences (06:24) This is the start of a new journey. While I had released a few albums back on the old mp3. … | Continue reading
I must have remastered about eight times now. A couple of tracks I've replaced, the others I've stuck with the original. I'm not entirely happy but I don't think I'm going to get it any better with what I've got. It's all been a learning experience and there's still a long way to … | Continue reading
Working on the music for the past week or so, and sorting out BandCamp, has really given me something to focus on. While I've been putting tracks together for the past couple of years now finally getting things onto a platform where someone could potentially pay has brought it ho … | Continue reading
From today in 2016: "When fear stops, magic starts." | Continue reading
The car needed new tyres but they didn't have the right size in stock. I'm in the office tomorrow so won't be able to pick it up until Friday morning. Good job we've got a second. | Continue reading
Our main car is in for a service and MOT so I've been running around in the other I usually use to go to work. A good chance to test things on a different set of speakers. Let's just say I wasn't happy. So I've grabbed a spectrum analyser plugin to help rather than doing it all b … | Continue reading
Thanks to those who have followed on BandCamp so far, much appreciated. I think I'm looking at a Friday release with streaming to follow. | Continue reading
I had to collect a parcel from a nearby postal depot and saw, outside, an adult oystercatcher with a couple of young chicks. I know these birds are often found inland but, with the depot on an industrial estate and them being primarily waders, they couldn't have been much further … | Continue reading
Want to know when the Acid Clan EP goes live? It would mean a great deal if you followed me on BandCamp. | Continue reading
Spent some time doing some basic mastering on the four tracks that will form the Acid Clan EP — just some compression, stero widening and EQ. Nothing too fancy but it gives them a little lift. Now I need to create an artist account on BandCamp and get some other stuff sorted. I'v … | Continue reading
The view from the top of Tan Hill: A glorious day out across the Dales. | Continue reading
The new hardware version of round and around is done! File: round_and_around_clip.mp3 …and around, and around, and around. #acid | Continue reading
I joked in response to Duncan that looping round and around for 20 minutes might be a bit much but then proceeded to listen to it for 90 minutes straight as I was reworking it with hardware. It really does get into your brain! 🧠 | Continue reading
I've been using a free text to speech website to make spoken vocals rather than try to record something. It's working out nicely and adds something extra that has been missing previously. Throw in a free vocoder plugin and you've really got something. | Continue reading
It goes round and around, and around... File: roundandaround.mp3 Just a quick idea I put together in Reason that could turn into something cool. | Continue reading
Come join the Acid Clan File: acid_clan_clip.mp3 #acid | Continue reading
For the past few days my creative energies have been channeled solely into making music. I've had a hard time putting one word after another so switched to an outlet that doesn't require any. Hence very few posts. My brain doesn't want to do more than one thing in any given perio … | Continue reading
Two years ago I wrote down a line that came to me while in the garden. A slight tweak and it becomes a haiku: Leaves softly falling From the tree as it gently Weeps for each one lost | Continue reading
Like : More on Hello Pages... or why LinkedIn sucks - Alastair Johnston... the more of us who are honest about how people can get in touch (hint, email!) and have an actual meaningful conversation with us, as two humans, virtually sitting down and sharing ideas, without an algori … | Continue reading
Dave Rupert details the view-transition CSS pseudo-element as it applies to page transitions. It's, sadly, currently only available after enabling specific flags in Chromium based browsers v113 and above. This is exactly what I envisioned when I wanted one page to transition to t … | Continue reading
Last year I linked to Tom Critchlow talking about increasing the surface area of blogging. I remarked: "Creating a larger surface area allows for more scope, more references, more links, more connections – with some work and a bit of luck that leads to more ideas" /start, /reader … | Continue reading
Looking back, I see a journey that has taken twists and turns and doubled back on itself. Six years ago today I first considered building an integrated RSS reader after realising that this was the way to go a week or so before: "my initial reaction was a combined feed reader/blog … | Continue reading
I love the "ever-changing color palette" on Mandy Brown's site. It's so subtle and elegant. | Continue reading
Deep thought and contemplation are like muscles that atrophy when not being used. The longer you go without exercising them the harder it is to get going again. I knew that if I didn't start posting again soon then it would likely turn into another gap of months before I did. I d … | Continue reading
Like : A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar - Jim Nielsenâs Blog... This is a great idea. I've added mine. | Continue reading
It's been a while since my last post. 1 I've definitely been in both a mental and creative funk – and not written anything as a consequence, despite a desire to do so. I know I need to write, for my own sanity if nothing else. I've been struggling to find the right words so I've … | Continue reading
The diamonds of morning dew. Clouds kissing the Dales. | Continue reading
I have been thinking more on the idea of "Posts I didn't write", wondering where it might take me or how it might work in practice. Would it be almost like a public drafts section? Or just a list of topics that I had been thinking about but declined to comment on? I am reminded o … | Continue reading
Nobody does pomp and pageantry like us Brits — even when it's scaled down. 🇬🇧 | Continue reading
Reply to: Re-watched Watchmen – Tracy Durnell... Watchmen is a masterpiece in both mediums. The movie was so obviously a labour of love that the wave of criticism was mostly unfounded. The ending had to be changed to appeal to a more modern, and mainstream, audience but the point … | Continue reading
Like : Embrace Cadence, Find Rhythm | 2315 - thejaymo... Jay's 'artist' series of casts talk so much sense and speak to me in a way that many things never can. | Continue reading
Just testing a new mastering plugin. It really emphasises the reverb with this setting. File: clip_wrath_of_karma_(master).mp3 The Wrath of Karma #acid | Continue reading
I had completely forgotten it was May 4th today until my daughter wished me a happy one in the car this morning. Proud parent moment. And she doesn't even really like Star Wars. | Continue reading
All media types used should now be caught by the 'no media' toggle. The links generated direct you to a page that displays the media with a back link rather than just dump you to the item itself. Made a bit more sense from a UX perspective. | Continue reading
Colin Walker has new rssCloud support in his blog and in feed reader. | Continue reading