Archive for September, 2007
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007The laws of simplicity is a great book, and I was reminded this morning of one of it’s key points. John Maeda explains more:
Think of the power of Google which runs from a simple, lightweight text input box in your web browser to access Google’s vast network of computers and databases. You are spared [...]
Radio Reverb Orchestra
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007On the 29th of September I’ll be performing a live sound track to the 1920’s film ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ as part of the Radio Reverb Orchestra. The 20 plus strong orchestra will be conducted by Grant Newman the images and the performance will be pretty much free form with little rehearsal. I’m not [...]
The future - as seen from 1910
Monday, September 10th, 2007I love this website. ‘Paleo-Future - A look into the future that never was’ finds amazing films and images from the past that attempted to imagine how the future might be. The latest find is a series of French postcards from 1910 credited to an artist called Villemard. There are some fantastic images like [...]
Tenori Off - No music and no light
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I went in to Edgeworld Records in Brighton (one of the record stores mentioned in the Yamaha press release) today to check out the Tenori On. As you can see from my picture they have a very nice stand and they even have a Tenori On in a box, but as the owner of [...]
Tenori Off
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007I’ve been tracking some of buzz thats around regarding Yamaha’s new sound gadget the Tenori on. I thought it was cool how they decided to test the market in the UK by giving them to a few musicians like Graham Masey from 808 State and installing them in record shops.
So, today was meant to [...]