Soundseeing in Lively
July 10th, 2008 No Comments
Here’s a field recording from my first visit to Lively, Google’s Second Life style virtual environment. I picked a random room and ended up at the island pictured above.
Sounds can be streamed to objects in the environment from elsewhere on the ‘Net. I’m not sure if this audio comprises a single stream or sound from a number of sources (or if the Lively client was functioning correctly, for that matter):
Download: lively_wtf.mp3 (3.82 MB)
Posted in: General Field Recording
The Henry Moore Foundation
July 3rd, 2008 No Comments
Here’s a selection of photos I took recently at the Henry Moore Foundation’s Perry Green site.
I don’t know a great deal about Henry Moore, or art in general for that matter, but it was cool to see and touch the sculptures first hand.
Posted in: General
Yamaha PSS-560 Drum Samples
July 2nd, 2008 No Comments
A little while ago I acquired a Yamaha PortaSound PSS-560. I bought it mainly for nostalgic reasons - it was the first keyboard I owned (actually the second if you include the Casio PT-1) and also my first introduction to FM synthesis.
Posted in: Samples
Aviary: Peacock
June 16th, 2008 No Comments
Peacock is the pattern generator in the Aviary suite of online creative tools. Compositions in Peacock are created by connecting together various nodes.
Posted in: Create
Crewe Percussion
August 22nd, 2007 No Comments
These people were making some noise in Crewe’s town centre a couple of days ago. Here’s some audio:
Download: r09_percussion.mp3 (4.35 MB)
En route I also recorded some sound on board a train pulling out of a station and getting up to speed. At the start of the recording is the sound of another train on an adjacent track:
Download: r09_train.mp3 (4.57 MB)
Posted in: Field Recording