The bowed piano ensemble

Found this video on Youtube and wanted to share it.

Wordle, freesound, and easter holidays..

I found this cool tool on the internet called wordle. It does crazy stuff with text.. I pasted in some blog text and got these among heaps of other results. More pleasing to look at than boring paragraphs..

One is created from text from this blog, the other from the text on my sounz biography page. It creates bigger words for the words that appear more often. Would be cool if you could do this with sounds..

Another cool website i've been using a lot lately is freesound project

where I've managed to collect a lot of the sounds I needed for moonfishing. I got some lovely soft frog calls and some sounds of scraping concrete and creaking doors. It's a free creative commons based sharing website that is an excellent tool for sound designers when foley options are limited.

I have been recording my own foley for some of it though, which involved throwing things into the bathtub, crinkling crunchy bar wrappers and plastic bags, and cracking ice and pinecones.

Finished this week two arrangements for the Hamilton 'play it strange' show, a song by Annah MacDonald and one by Maria English, both talented young song writers from Hamilton girl's college. Their ensembles included everything from brass to strings and piano..and hopefully will sound great.

Emma's coming over for Easter, so will have some nice family time in the next week..probably not much work done, but ah well. I'm also moving into a new flat in waterview, which looks amazing.. very quiet and perfect for music creation. And a cute jack russell called cash.




Bye for now.