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Category Archives: Opinion

Presentation

Take the average film soundtrack including what could be described as music and musical sounds, dialogue, atmospheres, foley, ambience, all other incidental sounds.
The average person’s perception of the story will be partly if not pretty largely due to the overall effect of the soundtrack.
Now lets take away the picture completely. We’ve probably cut the ‘average […]

An interesting point - Martyn Ware

“There aren’t so many people sitting there, listening and concentrating and paying attention to sound anymore…. We have to regard sound as a way of enhancing an overall experience now and acknowledge that, and take it as a positive thing and actually try and build on that as an idea.”
YouTube link to the original […]

So embarrassing

Okay, I’ve edited out my bitchy comments - I feel too guilty and in no position to judge… but this is still a funny video to watch. mmwoohahaha!

War at the Old Blue Last

Thursday 17th of January 2008. Old Blue Last. 3 bands.
The Dirty Money A nasty scally hardcore band who called people faggots every few minutes and told the crowd to punch people they don’t like… “if you don’t like girls then punch them, it’s every man for himself”… hmmmm?
Heartbreak 80s anthemic synth disco duo whose songs […]

Swimming with Dolphins

I saw Radiohead play a live show at 93 Feet East at around 9:00pm. They were originally scheduled to play in Rough Trade East and I queued from 11:00am. Some people laughed at me for adopting the behaviour of an obsessive fan, which I am clearly not but, why would I care? I’m unemployed (free, […]

3 rules that I made up but would quite like to abide by in 2008…

Listen to Radio 3 as often as possible
Never laugh at other people’s dancing
Have respect for tomorrow

Feening for Hexalite

Not since my Kent pikey days have I felt the urge to own some garish Reebok. When they’re designed by John Maeda with what looks like Processing, it seems slightly more justifiable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15980883@N08/show/
Seeing as they’re only limited to 100 pairs, it’d seem silly to wear them at all but in all honesty, if they were […]

Horses for Courses

If listening to a Led Zeppelin record is an approximation of the experience you get when seeing them live in concert, then hearing Sawako and Richard Chartier live (just I like I did at the ICA last night) is an approximation of the experience you get when listening to them on record. Although this can […]

Opinion

Eradicating my desire to form opinions will give me some kind of spiritual freedom. Ironically, that WAS my opinion over the past year or two. So comes the winter depression in which even the strongest moral boosters aren’t enough to keep that grey cloud from over my head and so my thought patterns begin to […]

Pownce

It took a while but finally, Pownce makes some sense to me. It is one of those great things in life that is so simple it just can’t be justified in a basic description, you just have to do it. The more you do it, the more meaningful it becomes.
Who wants an invite?