week 102

It has been a heavy few days.  Let’s talk about about what is good.  The Meet The Composer podcast series, by the seemingly tireless Nadia Sirota,…

week 101

The week where you encounter your worst fear. Secret codes embedded into Google Translate. US Central Command twitter posts videos of airstrikes. Cars that people owe…

week 99

So it turns out that when you finish your thesis and don’t have money to do anything exciting, your life becomes very boring. With that…

You Can’t Go Home Again: Hush, 2000 – 2014

It turns out that you really can’t: Hush, the nightclub, is closed, and I am sad to say I missed their closing party, as I…

week 94

Basically writing to shout out Myriam Bleau and her excellent piece Soft Revolvers, which involves four giant, bespoke rotating tops, with LEDs built in.  As she sets…

week 93

– http://808cube.com won the internet this week, by a very wide margin. – Spotify now works for at least two iPad-based DJing apps.  This was coming…

week 90

– I’m really glad that someone has done the Leap Motion / conducting idea, and done it so well… though the most amazing thing about…

fractal – the weather

Finshed a new tune: This one is 100% samples, care of my friend Charlie van Kirk and his 365 x 10 sampling project.  It’s also…

week 88

– I am sure that you, like me, wanted to know how many emoji are used on Twitter. – I confess that I was not…

week 87

– RBMA continues to do sterling work in terms of club / dance culture. – Rhythm is not much of a thing in most DAWs, but…