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Travel Vlog: Kawasaki Daishi
Long overdue, but I had a day off yesterday, so I thought I’d cut this together. In my last blog post I talked about the influence of Buddhism on my music making. That led to some really interesting conversations, so I thought today I would go deep and share this quite personal story of what […]
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NEW INTERVIEW: Talking Tech @ Light Audio Recording
My old chum Ronan – *very* keen fans will remember him opening for me on The Gloves Are On tour in Coventry – has an awesome blog about recording and music making. It’s an interesting space to occupy; in my news feed dominated by Waves Plugins and CLA tutorials, Ronan pops up with a refreshingly…
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Zanshin: Making Peace With My Body.
I’m always looking toward the next thing. A new way to do things. A new place to play in. Thanks to my recent Developing Your Creative Practice award from Arts Council England (Yay!) I’m about to start my next big creative adventure. No time to sit still. Under the working title Zanshin, this new work…
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The BuJo.
It didn’t sound like my kind of thing at all, but at the start of this year I thought I’d give the Bullet Journal thing a try. It’s *really* revolutionised my life and work. I couldn’t imagine a notebook and pen replacing apps like OmniFocus and OneNote, but the analogue process is why it works.…
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Recording, Capturing, Moving.
I’m still making things. Things you listen to. Things you listen to that are made in a computer. It makes less and less sense. Making music with computers can be – for me, at least – incredibly frustrating. I don’t particularly enjoy using electronic devices screens with screens. In fact I find it really annoying…
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Hand At Emotion – As It Was Written.
Here’s a version of Hand At Emotion I shot earlier today. This is as I wrote it – long before the gloves were a thing…
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Test Memberful
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Hello, Patrons!
This is a test! If it works, Patrons will be able to find it. Also email subscribers shouldn’t be updated about it. If either of those things are not true, please let me know! So if you’re an email subscriber and you just received this post via email, please give me a shout!
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The Holotype: Log II – Entry 3
Just a simple tweak to this today. I’ve added some pretty chuggy chords w/ a 7-String, and a cool little chorus pedaled arpeggio. It’s evolving; it feels like the scenery is in place now, next it needs vocals, structure… to become a song, basically.
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The Lyrical Process. Part One.
It starts by not thinking. If I sat down and tried to think up a lyric, I’d look like a dog being shown a card trick. Blankest of blank expressions. My approach to lyrics is just to capture enough stillness of mind that whatever words are there (and they’re always there) can come into focus.…
