I briefly mentioned this piece of kit earlier:
A few months ago my mate Dangerous Dave gave me a frightening-looking piece of medical equipment about the size of a microwave oven. He said it was supposed to generate tones but when he’d plugged it in he blew all the fuses in his house (not sure how [...]
I just found out about this live-in-the-studio project and I think it’s worth mentioning: www.fromthebasement.tv/home
The short version is they invite performers into this nicely decked out cosy studio and capture quite unique, intimate performances, beautifully recorded and filmed. I’ve seen a few web projects along similar lines but nothing quite like this, and nothing with [...]
Those of you in Auckland are encouraged to get along to this, beginning this Wednesday the 9th, upstairs at Handmade (the old Brazil) on K’ Road.
Experimental music, experimental instruments both acoustic and electronic, kind of an offshoot of the long-running Vitamin-S but perhaps with more of a rhythmic and melodic focus.
Come to play and [...]
I’ve had this drum machine, the Alesis HR-16b, for about 15 years. I haven’t used it much lately because although it’s a nice machine which is really quick and easy to program and a lot of fun to use, it has to be said that the sounds are a bit too clean. It’s hard to [...]
I’ve been a bit busy in meatspace lately so I haven’t posted much here. Forgive me.
Stuff I’ve been doing includes:
Repairing and circuit bending my Alesis drum machine.
Rigging a sine / square wave generator from some old medical equipment.
Making sound effects for a clown routine in the circus.
Doing my Tuesday night radio shows.
Recording new music with [...]
Tuesday’s radio show was a Ladies’ night special featuring Sharon Jones, Wanda Jackson, and my new favourite singer Betty Davis.
There’s a dedicated feed for the shows now too, so I won’t post them all on this feed as well unless there’s a particular reason to do so.
The page: http://bsidebeats.com/podcast/
The feed: http://bsidebeats.com/category/podcast/feed/
Righto.
Just posted last night’s radio show here, the theme this week is the spoken word in 20th century music.
Found the first two shows and posted them as well. Now all that’s missing is last week’s show when I recorded two hours of silence.
Live streaming coming soon.
Couldn’t quite say Raglan is starved for live music but it’s not exactly Mecca for touring bands either. There’s a fairly steady diet of competent-but-very-ordinary reggae and somewhat-less-than-ordinary house, so last night was a rare treat.
The Shrugs are humans, made from flesh and The Trons are robots, made from Meccano. They’re both (mostly) from Hamiltron [...]
I host a regular Tuesday night radio show here in Raglan (more about that later). I’m going to post recordings of the show here. You can download them or listen online.
It’ll also be streaming live over the interwebs every Tuesday night (NZ time) in a week or two, I’ll let you know when, where, and [...]
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