the 1st of several mental days today...
and i didn't know it was going to be this mental when i woke up,
in fact, when i woke up, i felt quite desperate, not sure why exactly, but then about 12 hours later, cycling up kingsway, i felt like i was floating on a cloud...
because, whilst i was @ work, i got an email from someone @ the BBC, asking if i could be part of a trailer for the world book club event coming up in about 3 weeks... the one where richard ford is coming to talk about the sportswriter...
the one that i'll be attending,
the email i sent to ask whether i could come was very enthusiastic...
that's why they asked me to be part of the trailer, because i was so enthusiastic...
and i was so enthusiastic, not just because richard ford is such a fantastic writer, but because i'd started rereading richard ford a few months back, well, further back really, 6 - 8 months... in an effort to connect with the version of myself who existed before i was with dinah... a getting over dinah kind of thing...
that book that i'd left down in brighton in the house of a man i barely knew, and got back a month or so later...
that was "just a little piece of my heart", it was great, and it was very good timing for the world book club to decide to bring him over...
anyway, la la la...
i finished the sportswriter over the weekend and again, very good timing to be asked today to do the trailer thing...
it turned out that the best time to do it was this evening after work, (because the next few days are going to be mental) and i cycled over to bvsh house in the rain around 7ish, floating through the barbican highwalks along the way which i love...
met with a lovely guy called B who led me through the plush old parts and into the not so nice newer parts, sat me down beside a neumann mic and asked me questions about the book, the writer, myself, my thoughts...
it was lovely... just to have a chance to talk about something i care about, and be listened to...
i left there just after he turned up the microphone on big ben for the 3 chimes of 8:15.. (so cool to have that mic on big ben all the time, live, so when you hear the bongs for the news it is actually big ben bonging...)...
and i cycled home high on life... stopping off in muratori's cafe, full of cabbies, for a largish roast meal... while mum & dad were probably eating down in earlsfield with kat & her G, celebrating the new flat, which is on my itinerary for tomorrow...
the trailer will be made by next tuesday and there'll be an extended web version around too, B's going to send me a link when it's around and it will make me very happy to hear myself on the BBC, or at least on the BBC website...
ok, bed, big day of travel tomorrow, biking it down to whitechapel for a meeting and to drop the bike off for a service in the one bike shop i trust in london (bicycle magic, greatorex street)...
then public transport down to earlsfield to see kat & the new flat...
then up to ladbroke grove for another meeting,
then the science museum for their science museum lates night, a core arts staff do type affair...
covering all 4 corners of this great city i'll be...
x
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
garden mixer
last week, one of the items i've recently bought arrived, it's an active monitor, (speaker) and it's lovely...
one more thing to carry to gigs and i probably won't always, but it's good to know i will be able to hear myself if i do take it...
this afternoon i decided to clean up my mixing desk, it's been in a bad state for a little while, gathering dust even when i was using it every day...
so i got my can of servisol 10 & i set about squirting it into various bits of the mixer, (a mackie, same brand as the new speaker)... after having done 4 channels (of 16) with a lovely advancing cleanness visible... i decided to heed the advice on the can and not do all this in an enclosed space...
i took the new speaker, plugged my phone into it and put it on my window sill...
a de la soul album pumping out which i've been enjoying very much for the last couple of weeks,
i took the mixer and the can outside into the garden and i had an enjoyable 45 minutes, cleaning up the rest of the mixer... in the best way i could think of, which hopefully is the proper way...
the album lasted exactly the right amount of time, i was a little aware that i might have been being antisocial with my loud music, but it was only an album, in the middle of the afternoon, and had anyone raised their head over the fence i would have turned it down...
anyway, it's such beautiful music, i'm sure all my neighbours appreciated it anyway...
i haven't yet tested the mixer, that's a task for tomorrow, but i'm glad to have done it...
x
one more thing to carry to gigs and i probably won't always, but it's good to know i will be able to hear myself if i do take it...
this afternoon i decided to clean up my mixing desk, it's been in a bad state for a little while, gathering dust even when i was using it every day...
so i got my can of servisol 10 & i set about squirting it into various bits of the mixer, (a mackie, same brand as the new speaker)... after having done 4 channels (of 16) with a lovely advancing cleanness visible... i decided to heed the advice on the can and not do all this in an enclosed space...
i took the new speaker, plugged my phone into it and put it on my window sill...
a de la soul album pumping out which i've been enjoying very much for the last couple of weeks,
i took the mixer and the can outside into the garden and i had an enjoyable 45 minutes, cleaning up the rest of the mixer... in the best way i could think of, which hopefully is the proper way...
the album lasted exactly the right amount of time, i was a little aware that i might have been being antisocial with my loud music, but it was only an album, in the middle of the afternoon, and had anyone raised their head over the fence i would have turned it down...
anyway, it's such beautiful music, i'm sure all my neighbours appreciated it anyway...
i haven't yet tested the mixer, that's a task for tomorrow, but i'm glad to have done it...
x
Monday, March 15, 2010
highs & lows
proust's on hold, because richard ford is going to be on the world service's world book club and i'm going to be there to ask him a question...
so i'm rereading the sportswriter, the book of his that's going to be discussed...
judging from the cinema ticket stub that is the bookmark, i last read this book in 2002, the film (from the ticket stub) was Ivans XTC, which i might put on my lovefilm list to see again...
the sportswriter is wonderful and it has made me laugh out loud (not lol) several times already, made me smile many times and brought me quite close to tears...
richard ford isn't wholly responsible for the almost tears, i've been quite low recently... lonely...
bubbles, the downstairs cat, meows mournfully all day when they're not in down there, i feel for her, and try and show her a little attention whilst at the same time assuring balthazara that i'm not cheating on her... i'm a one cat man... even if that one cat wakes me up in the morning by touching my face with her paw...
i'm very glad to have her, i think it's true to say she's very glad to have me...
other highs have been:
true blood season 2, which i've had for a little while, but was holding off because it's on the telly (FX), but since last friday's episode i've been hungrily devouring the whole season, and it is better without adverts, the only thing is sometimes my copy of the episode doesn't have the closing tune, which changes each episode and is generally both fantastic in and of itself, and funny, in relation to the story just told...
one episode left and i'm trying to hold it off, but i won't be able to hold off for much longer...
my piano, tuned a week or so ago and in a wonderful place, no downstairs neighbour conflict, possibly side to side neighbour issues to come but i'm not being rude about it, if someone can hear me that way...
i'm writing a synth thing that currently has piano playing on it, i've ordered a couple of niceish mic's that i intend to have setup on the piano fairly constantly, my nice condenser mic would have been recording that piano by now, but it's still in the hands of T who i used to make music with... he's dragging his heals to an extent... glad to have ordered the other ones, they'll be here in a couple of weeks or so, coming from america, i wonder if i'll have my stuff back off T by then?
all this piano playing has given me a renewed interest in my GEM piano module, that may surface at a gig some time soon...
my tetra, my space echo, both of which met my gigging keyboard last night at the spanner jazz punks rehearsal in the venue for next saturday's gig... my keyboard which is so slim the mopho fell off it many times, and last night the bari player knocked the tetra to the ground and i lost the plot a tiny bit, it's partly my fault, i haven't yet invested in the bluetack necessary for the purpose...
on the way back from the rehearsal, keyboard on my back, a drunk polish man (i think he was polish, and he was definitely drunk) told me he needed someone to make music for him, him being a rapper, he wrote his number on the brickwork by where we were standing with a bit of chalk from the ground and proceeded to sing a really long and loud tone into the wall to prove to me that he could sing... i left him there...
x
so i'm rereading the sportswriter, the book of his that's going to be discussed...
judging from the cinema ticket stub that is the bookmark, i last read this book in 2002, the film (from the ticket stub) was Ivans XTC, which i might put on my lovefilm list to see again...
the sportswriter is wonderful and it has made me laugh out loud (not lol) several times already, made me smile many times and brought me quite close to tears...
richard ford isn't wholly responsible for the almost tears, i've been quite low recently... lonely...
bubbles, the downstairs cat, meows mournfully all day when they're not in down there, i feel for her, and try and show her a little attention whilst at the same time assuring balthazara that i'm not cheating on her... i'm a one cat man... even if that one cat wakes me up in the morning by touching my face with her paw...
i'm very glad to have her, i think it's true to say she's very glad to have me...
other highs have been:
true blood season 2, which i've had for a little while, but was holding off because it's on the telly (FX), but since last friday's episode i've been hungrily devouring the whole season, and it is better without adverts, the only thing is sometimes my copy of the episode doesn't have the closing tune, which changes each episode and is generally both fantastic in and of itself, and funny, in relation to the story just told...
one episode left and i'm trying to hold it off, but i won't be able to hold off for much longer...
my piano, tuned a week or so ago and in a wonderful place, no downstairs neighbour conflict, possibly side to side neighbour issues to come but i'm not being rude about it, if someone can hear me that way...
i'm writing a synth thing that currently has piano playing on it, i've ordered a couple of niceish mic's that i intend to have setup on the piano fairly constantly, my nice condenser mic would have been recording that piano by now, but it's still in the hands of T who i used to make music with... he's dragging his heals to an extent... glad to have ordered the other ones, they'll be here in a couple of weeks or so, coming from america, i wonder if i'll have my stuff back off T by then?
all this piano playing has given me a renewed interest in my GEM piano module, that may surface at a gig some time soon...
my tetra, my space echo, both of which met my gigging keyboard last night at the spanner jazz punks rehearsal in the venue for next saturday's gig... my keyboard which is so slim the mopho fell off it many times, and last night the bari player knocked the tetra to the ground and i lost the plot a tiny bit, it's partly my fault, i haven't yet invested in the bluetack necessary for the purpose...
on the way back from the rehearsal, keyboard on my back, a drunk polish man (i think he was polish, and he was definitely drunk) told me he needed someone to make music for him, him being a rapper, he wrote his number on the brickwork by where we were standing with a bit of chalk from the ground and proceeded to sing a really long and loud tone into the wall to prove to me that he could sing... i left him there...
x
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
retrograde
just watched dogma, which i've been meaning to do for ages...
it was great, bless kevin smith...
alanis morrisette is a weird looking lady, she looks like she belongs in a circus... and she's god...
anyway, i just turned on voyager, the star, sky software thing that i like, that i've got set up like a astrologer would have it, the planets and the sun (but no moon for me, she moves too quick) arranged around the ecliptic...
and i see that mars is right on the border between cancer & leo, my sign and my brother's sign...
i'm curious which direction it's moving in so i press forward in time, and it drifts into leo proper, i press backwards in time and it drifts into leo proper...
which means it's balancing, right now, between moving backwards and forwards.
it turns out that it's been moving backwards (retrograde) for almost 3 months, and in almost 2 hours it's going to stop moving backwards and start moving forwards again...
it didn't quite make it back into cancer, it's teetering right on the edge...
dinah & her mum & dad are astrology people and all i know about astrology comes from living with dinah, she used to speak of mars being in retrograde as being a difficult thing... so i'm all for an end to a difficult thing...
ok, the talented mr ripley... which now i remember is based on the same book that plein soleil is based on, and i think i didn't which this one when it came out because i felt i should watch the older, french one 1st, alain delon...
which i never did, and now here i am watching the talented mr ripley... and i might have read that book...? and mars will reverse it's direction (relative to the earth) in less than 90 minutes... and i've got to be up for work in the morning... i'm a fool x
it was great, bless kevin smith...
alanis morrisette is a weird looking lady, she looks like she belongs in a circus... and she's god...
anyway, i just turned on voyager, the star, sky software thing that i like, that i've got set up like a astrologer would have it, the planets and the sun (but no moon for me, she moves too quick) arranged around the ecliptic...
and i see that mars is right on the border between cancer & leo, my sign and my brother's sign...
i'm curious which direction it's moving in so i press forward in time, and it drifts into leo proper, i press backwards in time and it drifts into leo proper...
which means it's balancing, right now, between moving backwards and forwards.
it turns out that it's been moving backwards (retrograde) for almost 3 months, and in almost 2 hours it's going to stop moving backwards and start moving forwards again...
it didn't quite make it back into cancer, it's teetering right on the edge...
dinah & her mum & dad are astrology people and all i know about astrology comes from living with dinah, she used to speak of mars being in retrograde as being a difficult thing... so i'm all for an end to a difficult thing...
ok, the talented mr ripley... which now i remember is based on the same book that plein soleil is based on, and i think i didn't which this one when it came out because i felt i should watch the older, french one 1st, alain delon...
which i never did, and now here i am watching the talented mr ripley... and i might have read that book...? and mars will reverse it's direction (relative to the earth) in less than 90 minutes... and i've got to be up for work in the morning... i'm a fool x
Sunday, March 07, 2010
before time 1980 techyness dream eating
on friday morning i just missed a call from a student... i knew roughly what he was going to say...
sorry i'm late, or, sorry i'm not coming...
anyway, the answerphone message he left remained unlistened to until this morning...
also on friday i finally got my windows 7 computer to sync up to my HTC Hero phone...
which means that:
a - i could install the new ROM that came out for the hero (on orange) a few weeks back
& b - i could back up all my text messages that would have been deleted by this process..
they all got backed up onto my gmail... which is really odd, seeing text messages in gmail...
so anyway, it all happened, it all works, which is pleasing...
i woke up this morning and looked at my phone, and it told me i had an answerphone message from june 22nd 1980, this being the answerphone message from friday morning,
from before my phone got it's ROM changed and therefore before my phone's current conciousness came into being,
like imagining events from before i was born...
anyway, i like the fact that it chose june 22nd 1980... pleasing x
but while i'm talking about things working, i have a few positive and one negative "things working" stories to tell,
1stly the negative, the mopho is not responding to treatment, or at least, not the last bout of trying to fix it that i gave it, with the arrival of the soundcard with it's MIDI in&out i can now talk to the mopho, and i've tried a few different ways of getting it back on it's feet but it's resisting...
but in a positive way, i was able to take the sound i use in an SJP song, put it into the computer, then load up the Tetra sound editor and manually program that in so i have the exact sound now... and all the original mopho sounds i programmed are all similarly in my computer now, in code, so i can get them into the tetra slowly... and maybe someone @ DSI will tell me how to load them onto the tetra in a much easier way...
but sad for the mopho, i can't help be struck by the fact that it broke (or i found out that it was broke) on the day i ordered the tetra... to anthropomorphise my mopho a little, either it knew it's old age was coming and it just managed to hold on until i had a replacement, or it saw that i was getting the tetra and it broke itself in a fit of anger..
so, fantastic that i have the tera now, but what would i have done if i hadn't been buying the tetra when it happened?
my other (partial) success concerns the tetra and the spin doctor... the spin doctor being a purple object with 16 knobs on it that you can plug into any MIDI device and set those knobs to controlling the device, i got it from D (moog drummer D) on thursday...
i'm currently plugging it into the tetra, which is a beautiful synth, but it doesn't have that many knobs on it, you can assign 4 of the knobs to whatever you want, which is great, but i want to be able to control more than just those...
so far i've been able to set up 11 knobs on the spin doctor to control the tetra and it's lovely...
there are many, many more settings i might want to change yet, and also i need to do a bit of learning as to how to speak in NRPN MIDI messages, but it's a really nice and intuitive way of interacting with a synth and i'm really digging it...
ok one more thing, i dreamt of bass player A last night - well - this morning, and it was the end of a long day, moving things, and suddenly he came out with this amazing veggie indian food... and offered half to me - by saying "well, you're not going to get a quote on it", which seemed to me to be inviting me to eat...
and i ate, in my dream...
x
sorry i'm late, or, sorry i'm not coming...
anyway, the answerphone message he left remained unlistened to until this morning...
also on friday i finally got my windows 7 computer to sync up to my HTC Hero phone...
which means that:
a - i could install the new ROM that came out for the hero (on orange) a few weeks back
& b - i could back up all my text messages that would have been deleted by this process..
they all got backed up onto my gmail... which is really odd, seeing text messages in gmail...
so anyway, it all happened, it all works, which is pleasing...
i woke up this morning and looked at my phone, and it told me i had an answerphone message from june 22nd 1980, this being the answerphone message from friday morning,
from before my phone got it's ROM changed and therefore before my phone's current conciousness came into being,
like imagining events from before i was born...
anyway, i like the fact that it chose june 22nd 1980... pleasing x
but while i'm talking about things working, i have a few positive and one negative "things working" stories to tell,
1stly the negative, the mopho is not responding to treatment, or at least, not the last bout of trying to fix it that i gave it, with the arrival of the soundcard with it's MIDI in&out i can now talk to the mopho, and i've tried a few different ways of getting it back on it's feet but it's resisting...
but in a positive way, i was able to take the sound i use in an SJP song, put it into the computer, then load up the Tetra sound editor and manually program that in so i have the exact sound now... and all the original mopho sounds i programmed are all similarly in my computer now, in code, so i can get them into the tetra slowly... and maybe someone @ DSI will tell me how to load them onto the tetra in a much easier way...
but sad for the mopho, i can't help be struck by the fact that it broke (or i found out that it was broke) on the day i ordered the tetra... to anthropomorphise my mopho a little, either it knew it's old age was coming and it just managed to hold on until i had a replacement, or it saw that i was getting the tetra and it broke itself in a fit of anger..
so, fantastic that i have the tera now, but what would i have done if i hadn't been buying the tetra when it happened?
my other (partial) success concerns the tetra and the spin doctor... the spin doctor being a purple object with 16 knobs on it that you can plug into any MIDI device and set those knobs to controlling the device, i got it from D (moog drummer D) on thursday...
i'm currently plugging it into the tetra, which is a beautiful synth, but it doesn't have that many knobs on it, you can assign 4 of the knobs to whatever you want, which is great, but i want to be able to control more than just those...
so far i've been able to set up 11 knobs on the spin doctor to control the tetra and it's lovely...
there are many, many more settings i might want to change yet, and also i need to do a bit of learning as to how to speak in NRPN MIDI messages, but it's a really nice and intuitive way of interacting with a synth and i'm really digging it...
ok one more thing, i dreamt of bass player A last night - well - this morning, and it was the end of a long day, moving things, and suddenly he came out with this amazing veggie indian food... and offered half to me - by saying "well, you're not going to get a quote on it", which seemed to me to be inviting me to eat...
and i ate, in my dream...
x
Saturday, March 06, 2010
jazzers meeting by chance
a week ago i went to see my friend J (JtJP) play a gig over in ravenscourt park,
playing with J that night were - R, student of mine, lovely singer, F a wonderful drummer who i've played with once, when i played one of those sunday jazz gigs in camden... and the guitarist who i've met but can't remember his name, lovely player, and a bass player...
on my way out there, i got off the tube and was walking up the road when a man asked me if i knew where the polish centre was...
i told him i didn't but that i had googlemaps on my phone and that i might be able to help...
a short while later i had directed him back down the road he had been walking along, and i made my way up that road towards the gig, where i met lovely D, (who sold me the moog all that time ago and who drums in many of the improvisations)... the gig was wonderful... all of them were marvellous, i had a rocking time watching them play...
also the pub saw fit to show Top Gun projected massively behind the band from film4... it started pretty much as they started and it finished almost exactly when they finished...
me & D drunkenly shambled back down that road to the tube and were waiting for a train when the man who i'd directed to the polish centre earlier came onto the platform...
it turns out he's a sax player, he was going to see a bigband, run by a man who fixes and sells saxophones, in fact at least one of the SJP's have got a sax from that man...
so we chatted awhile, talked about the musicians life... sax players... music...
got on the train when it came and before we knew it me & D were getting off and he was staying on...
so that was that... he goes by the name of BP... and it was nice bumping into him x
playing with J that night were - R, student of mine, lovely singer, F a wonderful drummer who i've played with once, when i played one of those sunday jazz gigs in camden... and the guitarist who i've met but can't remember his name, lovely player, and a bass player...
on my way out there, i got off the tube and was walking up the road when a man asked me if i knew where the polish centre was...
i told him i didn't but that i had googlemaps on my phone and that i might be able to help...
a short while later i had directed him back down the road he had been walking along, and i made my way up that road towards the gig, where i met lovely D, (who sold me the moog all that time ago and who drums in many of the improvisations)... the gig was wonderful... all of them were marvellous, i had a rocking time watching them play...
also the pub saw fit to show Top Gun projected massively behind the band from film4... it started pretty much as they started and it finished almost exactly when they finished...
me & D drunkenly shambled back down that road to the tube and were waiting for a train when the man who i'd directed to the polish centre earlier came onto the platform...
it turns out he's a sax player, he was going to see a bigband, run by a man who fixes and sells saxophones, in fact at least one of the SJP's have got a sax from that man...
so we chatted awhile, talked about the musicians life... sax players... music...
got on the train when it came and before we knew it me & D were getting off and he was staying on...
so that was that... he goes by the name of BP... and it was nice bumping into him x
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
under the sea
in a couple of hours i'm going out to meet with felinity, we're seeing micmacs....
i'm feeling a bit under things today, a sore throat and a cough/sneeze thing...
i'm about to smoke a tiny bit, which won't be very pleasant but it will produce quite a nice feeling, upon which i'll sit down at my rhodes, with the MIDI keyboard on top, the rhodes going through the BlackStar valve thing, the MIDI keyboard controlling the hammond and the tetra, and everything going into the space echo...
and i'll play for an hour or so...
still not recording because i'm still waiting for delivery of a USB sound thing, it turns out the Edirol one i ordered (and paid for) was in between names, being rebranded, and i wasn't going to get it until the end of next week...
so i cancelled it and tried to get it from someone else, phoned a few people, one man told me he wouldn't be able to get an edirol for a little while and anyway, the last one he'd sold (a year ago) had blown up...
so he persuaded me that in fact i wanted an M-audio thing, newer, for £100 less...
i was persuaded, and tomorrow morning, possibly before i leave for work, i shall receive it in the post and then it will all start to slip into place...
i will also be able to start mending the mopho, or at the very least recreating the mopho sound i was using in the SJP's in the Tetra...
x
i'm feeling a bit under things today, a sore throat and a cough/sneeze thing...
i'm about to smoke a tiny bit, which won't be very pleasant but it will produce quite a nice feeling, upon which i'll sit down at my rhodes, with the MIDI keyboard on top, the rhodes going through the BlackStar valve thing, the MIDI keyboard controlling the hammond and the tetra, and everything going into the space echo...
and i'll play for an hour or so...
still not recording because i'm still waiting for delivery of a USB sound thing, it turns out the Edirol one i ordered (and paid for) was in between names, being rebranded, and i wasn't going to get it until the end of next week...
so i cancelled it and tried to get it from someone else, phoned a few people, one man told me he wouldn't be able to get an edirol for a little while and anyway, the last one he'd sold (a year ago) had blown up...
so he persuaded me that in fact i wanted an M-audio thing, newer, for £100 less...
i was persuaded, and tomorrow morning, possibly before i leave for work, i shall receive it in the post and then it will all start to slip into place...
i will also be able to start mending the mopho, or at the very least recreating the mopho sound i was using in the SJP's in the Tetra...
x
Monday, March 01, 2010
just listening to this, being another time i was playing my rhodes through a space echo, but that time, my rhodes was in full working order and it was a real 70's space echo...
this time, my rhodes is still broke, the amp part is in need of some specific love, but the upper, harp part is currently wired into my Blackstar valve overdrive pedal, which is wired into the brand new (to me) Boss Space Echo, a seemingly faithful digital reproduction of the original...
similar therefore to my hammond organ module - the Creamware B4000, a lovingly researched and recreated digital version of an analogue classic...
week 24 of the weekly improvisation (because that's what it is i'm listening to) was recorded on the 5th of December 2006,
ok, it's just finished, and now i'm listening to week 34, from the 10th of february 2007, the day that landlord E popped over to pick up his space echo after a few months of it living with me...
i'm sharing these links with you because my old computer is dead and until my brand new Edirol USP sound thing arrives i can not record anything just yet... but when i can ladies & gentlemen you will be drowning in the deluge of music i'll be making...
earlier on i felt so completely at home playing the rhodes through the space echo (with that lovely bit of valve overdrive), i tweeted with joy, and tomorrow i'll be taking both the space echo and the brand new tetra to the SJP rehearsal, we'll see what the hammond sounds like through it...
we're practising up for a big showcase type thing that will feature dancers (including dinah):
be there or be square folks x
this time, my rhodes is still broke, the amp part is in need of some specific love, but the upper, harp part is currently wired into my Blackstar valve overdrive pedal, which is wired into the brand new (to me) Boss Space Echo, a seemingly faithful digital reproduction of the original...
similar therefore to my hammond organ module - the Creamware B4000, a lovingly researched and recreated digital version of an analogue classic...
week 24 of the weekly improvisation (because that's what it is i'm listening to) was recorded on the 5th of December 2006,
ok, it's just finished, and now i'm listening to week 34, from the 10th of february 2007, the day that landlord E popped over to pick up his space echo after a few months of it living with me...
i'm sharing these links with you because my old computer is dead and until my brand new Edirol USP sound thing arrives i can not record anything just yet... but when i can ladies & gentlemen you will be drowning in the deluge of music i'll be making...
earlier on i felt so completely at home playing the rhodes through the space echo (with that lovely bit of valve overdrive), i tweeted with joy, and tomorrow i'll be taking both the space echo and the brand new tetra to the SJP rehearsal, we'll see what the hammond sounds like through it...
we're practising up for a big showcase type thing that will feature dancers (including dinah):
be there or be square folks x
space echo
my heart is full of music making love...
i currently have AT tuning my piano, and i also have, by my side, the Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal which i picked up from the post office this morning...
so i've got my lovely DSI Tetra, going into the Space Echo, and it's just heaven on a stick...
my cup runneth over...
i am, if you haven't guessed already, going through an acquisitive month or two, what with the laptop, DSI Tetra, Space Echo... and indeed an Edirol USP Sound unit currently waiting to be sent off from liverpool...
it's all come from the marking that kept me underground for ages recently and also the fact that the very reputable company that i bought the tetra from mistakenly charged me too little for the beast...
so for once i find i have money, but of course it won't last long...
anyway... the space echo, i hit the Push It button on the tetra and turn the Cutoff control, giving a short burst of synthy loveliness... it goes into the space echo and repeats, i turn all sorts of dials on the space echo and the synthy loveliness turns mad and nutty and even more lovely to my electro loving ears...
all to the background sound of my KNIGHT upright piano being tuned by that lovely man...
x
i currently have AT tuning my piano, and i also have, by my side, the Boss RE-20 Space Echo pedal which i picked up from the post office this morning...
so i've got my lovely DSI Tetra, going into the Space Echo, and it's just heaven on a stick...
my cup runneth over...
i am, if you haven't guessed already, going through an acquisitive month or two, what with the laptop, DSI Tetra, Space Echo... and indeed an Edirol USP Sound unit currently waiting to be sent off from liverpool...
it's all come from the marking that kept me underground for ages recently and also the fact that the very reputable company that i bought the tetra from mistakenly charged me too little for the beast...
so for once i find i have money, but of course it won't last long...
anyway... the space echo, i hit the Push It button on the tetra and turn the Cutoff control, giving a short burst of synthy loveliness... it goes into the space echo and repeats, i turn all sorts of dials on the space echo and the synthy loveliness turns mad and nutty and even more lovely to my electro loving ears...
all to the background sound of my KNIGHT upright piano being tuned by that lovely man...
x
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