Bag romance — still a better love story than Twilight: #clangers
The Clangers is so synaesthetic. Everywhere there’s physical/visual representations of music.
Whether or not you like the song, the photos in this video of The Devil Went Down To Georgia are hilarious. There’s even a catbus at the end!
Recorded an unnamed #gurdy tune yesterday + saw #aurora for the first time today = easy tune name! Lights In The Sky:
Want to play it? Have a peek at the sheet music.
Trying to find some creativecommons.org licensed folk/trad recordings — any ideas?
Ordered a bunch of #raspberrypi stuff — let’s create the future of musical instruments and personal devices.
Heading over to Bergsson Delhi — I’ll be demoing my hurdy #gurdy! Pop over if you want to hear it. Also they have good sandwiches.
My old school is publishing tracks from their concerts under CC-BY-NC-SA. Good for them! soundcloud.com/sdcc2012
Brave has some of the best Pixar film music since Ratatouille, and an excellent depiction of a lute — placing it alongside Ghibli’s Whisper Of The Heart for interesting (non-tropic) #film music.
I have this bad musical habit of always hearing music in my head as sung vocal notes (dum de daa, etc.). New project is to train myself to constantly experiment with reorchestrating it in as many different forms as I can.
I’m loving the feedback loop of using the things I build.
Wasn’t blogging much → improved typography, design → want to write more and better.
Started using my tune stream → discovered a bunch of problems → fixed them, now I can practise more effectively.
Lessons?
- Hacking on stuff does have a wider beneficial effect on life, provided you’re making stuff which matters.
- Stuff which matters doesn’t have to be life changing in order to matter
Trying to think of a good reason to make a #js library called bach.js
I need some musical help! What time signature is this clip in? It’s been rolling around in my head for the past three weeks but I can’t figure it out.
K:Amin
AB cd- dc _ed cd cB cd |fe de- ec2 AB cA _ed cd :|
The problem seems to be around the 19-20th notes — that’s how I play it but it means there’s an extra quaver. Otherwise it could almost be alternating bars of 7/4 and 8/4. Any ideas?
Sitting hacking in Stofan, Reykjavik. They seem to be playing a jazz version of Douce Dame Jolie #thisisiceland
I seem to have a private little klezmer concert next door tonight #music
#listening to Ravel’s Bolero, after learning the first part on the #gurdy yesterday
Heard a good #mondegreen over lunch — not sure what the lyrics were supposed to be but sounded a lot like “I’ve got a professional… lawyer”
Create Digital Music has an excellent article on the creative values of presets in whatever context (e.g. Instagram): createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/daft-presets-reasons-audiomatic-retro-transformer-claims-to-be-instagram-for-your-music
#listening to Come When I Call You by The Klezmatics