Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Rare Sightings

This is Dorothy, who I have been feeding. Not exactly a floozy, in fact not even the slightest hint of affection until my last day of responsibility, when my finger was momentarily sniffed, then customarily rejected.
She can sometimes be found in the fireplace behind the easy chair, waiting for everyone to clear off, so she can get back on the chair.
She crouches on her belly till the last moment, then leaps past me and out of the door, which I have just left open to indicate my non-predatory status. I wonder what I can learn from this manner of blanket suspicion. It certainly has me hooked, and determined to prove my innocence.

Monday, 20 February 2012

Music making

"We shall not cease from exploration 
 And the end of all our exploring 
 Will be to arrive where we started 
 And know the place for the first time."
 TS Eliot.

Monday, 6 February 2012

Back in the USSR!

VERY analog, VERY photogenic, VERY temperamental, and VERY good fun, this is a right one. Mine needed some repairing when it arrived, so maybe it's not as strong as it wants you to think it is. The filter envelope was doing nothing, and the keyboard had snapped loose from its fittings. In fact beneath the bullish exterior and intimidating screeching, there is a fragile lonely soul, just waiting to be discovered.
Polivoks: 2 oscillators plus separate LFO, noise generator, external input, envelope repeater for filter and amplitude, ring mod (which doesn't really give the usual result).
Tuning: unstable but usable with patience.
Filter: very agro. Hi or lo pass with terrifying resonance knob I'm too scared to touch.

Sunday, 15 January 2012

The Casio VL Tone

Click on the pic for zooming in on this little beauty

Monday, 21 November 2011

The Dietary Requirements Of The Average Conspiracy Theorist

> One of those happy Oxfam moments. Came across a box of very rare JFK assassination books and research papers. One single donation according to the person on the till. I happen to know of two little girls whose care and maintenance depends upon income from The JFK Assasination Bookstore so I bought the lot and will donate at Christmas. That should get me some goodwill credit for a change. Anyway inside one of the books was a receipt from 23rd March listing "export cider, Belgium Guez, Armagnac, W/Indian Rum and 1.53 Ib bananas"

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Thursday, 27 October 2011

News : All noisy on the western front...

We are currently working on a new project. Here's us rehearsing one of our new ideas...