11.5ms is optimum remote musical collaboration latency! Or so Stanford tell us: http://opensoundcontrol.org/files/gurevich-latency.pdf

Pyo tip: Turn down the master volume if you’re getting nasty scratches + pops in your recordings

I used to think that us Brits, collectively, were a bit rubbish at making trad folk songs new

Then I found out about Solarference.

Wow.

My contribution to jubilee celebrations: played at Holbeton’s St. Party. It was huge for such a small village, very impressive!

Achievement Unlocked: Successfully navigated French booking system. I’m coming to Chateau d’Ars this year.

Woah. My new hurdy gurdy’s piezo pickups are amazing. Big thanks to @Nigel Eaton and @Neil Brook for their advice.

Nice to hear a song about luthiers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8dFohVOJEM

The new Kipling ad music sounds very much like the wendigo by Steve Tyler

plastic-hill-concrete-dale

Playing with Ableton Live Lite, courtesy of @SoundCloud. Counter intuitive but flexible. I like it.

Flook have to be one of the best folk bands I’ve ever heard. I wish I had been able to see them live

I finally got a MIDI controller! No more reliance on my stylophone for synth controls.

Flook have to be one of the best folk bands I’ve ever heard. I wish I had been able to see them live

Woke up to a freshly glued hurdy Gurdy. That's a good feeling.

Secret Gurdy Feature: This image showed a secret feature, so I had to block it out in accordance with the laws of secrecy (Chapter 14, Section 47, Sub-section 19: If a photo contains something secret, it must be blended up in a manner most unusual) http://flic.kr/p/bCLGr6

Secret Gurdy Feature: This image showed a secret feature, so I had to block it out in accordance with the laws of secrecy (Chapter 14, Section 47, Sub-section 19: If a photo contains something secret, it must be blended up in a manner most unusual) http://flic.kr/p/bCLGr6

More #gurdy progress — spent the morning routing some of the keyslots http://www.flickr.com/photos/53044388@N05/sets/72157629073455152/

Here's a little video of my current Gurdy build, 1/3 of the way through: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPvyiA9MTi4

More gurdy progress: The compulsory 'photo with all the pegs in', as the top linings go in http://www.flickr.com/photos/53044388@N05/sets/72157629073455152/

Another productive day's hurdy gurdy making, although I was annoyed to find my salvaged MIDI ports only had three of the five connectors :(