I'm running a few days behind, but I contributed to a BonkWave Allstars track celebrating 1 year since BonkWave arrived on the scene. It was fun getting involved and the timing happened to work as I had a little free…
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Jul 24 2024
Jul 24 2024
I'm running a few days behind, but I contributed to a BonkWave Allstars track celebrating 1 year since BonkWave arrived on the scene. It was fun getting involved and the timing happened to work as I had a little free…
Read moreJun 18 2024
Season Four has begun today with episode one - This Train Is. In some ways, it's an enormous relief. As a weekly audio diary, I don't feel like I need to keep writing things here every week while it's going…
Read moreJun 16 2024
I watched this documentary today - Chris Packham's “Inside Our Autistic Minds”. I thought it was good, and as someone with some autistic traits, really interesting to see people I have some things in common (or close enough) with. But…
Read moreJun 1 2024
This year has not gone according to plan. It's not even like I make plans, but even vague ideas just got abandoned really. Things got in the way.
I wasn't sure that there would be a season four. I took…
Read moreMay 27 2024
At the bottom of my pages it says “I am being sociable on Mastodon”. I have been, and I'm not leaving there - there's really good conversations and really good music people and ideas and information and so on over…
Read moreMay 26 2024
May 21 2024
I've been thinking that I've not been very socialable on Mastodon recently, and I've got out of the routine of posting updates here a little. As a result, I thought I'll pop a few updates on the socials, start a…
Read moreMay 14 2024
As I continue to recover, I thought some tidying up might help a bit. My music page has grown a lot and seperating out podcast soundtracks from albums helped, but the names seemed weird and I wanted the navigation to…
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May 2 2024
Apr 28 2024
I took an enforced break.
Nothing too serious, but it did make some things a bit tricky and give me a lot of time for thought, albeit not entirely coherant.
Apr 13 2024
Strange Textures is the name of the podcast, the name of the website, the name of the project. It isn't the name of the band. The question is, does the name limit the ideas? The original project has run its…
Read moreApr 10 2024
The Hiperad Series is here!
I had prepped Hiperad for release on Bandcamp in May (and other services June). So as I came to set up the release here to be a bit earlier I noticed the message had gone…
Read moreApr 6 2024
So, after discovering that my approach to being self-contained on Mastodon leads to me disengaging from the community, I've been on a different instance and I feel more engaged, more part of something. I see other people not being impacted…
Read moreApr 4 2024
So I did - I find it tends to improve my mood. I thought I'd do this quickly and make it available with a CC license and free to download. Just to cheer myself up.
Read moreMar 30 2024
I've deleted the merchandise store. Its another thing that I always felt I needed as a professional musician - because loads of places say that, and loads of people sell merch. I really like all the podcast merchandise for example…
Read moreMar 23 2024
The Hiperad cover art is all done, and so is Orbits. In theory I could release them all now, but that would be an awful lot in one go. I think I might do each as a collection of 3…
Read moreMar 16 2024
Saturday morning. An electrician is here doing some work and I'm waiting for all that to be done before I get on with my stuff properly. In the meantime I'm doing a bit more cover stuff for Hiperad, so some…
Read moreMar 9 2024
It's 3:14am at the moment and I've been up a while, so I thought I'd write a few things down as it's nice and quiet.
Mar 2 2024
Now the reshuffle of Season 3 has happened, I'm working on a few things at once:
Feb 28 2024
In order to work on editing Season 3 down to publishable albums I thought I'd start by separating out the different sections of each episode. Effectively that means I've shuffled the episodes round.
The final (roughly 20 minutes) section of…
Read moreFeb 21 2024
In order to work on editing Season 3 down to publishable albums I thought I'd start by separating out the different sections of each episode. Effectively that means I've shuffled the episodes round.
The middle section of each episode (usually…
Read moreFeb 14 2024
In order to work on editing Season 3 down to publishable albums I thought I'd start by separating out the different sections of each episode. Effectively that means I've shuffled the episodes round.
The first section (usually around 20 minutes)…
Read moreFeb 8 2024
At the bottom of each page, in the footer, there are some links. I've just updated them to remove things like Spotify and Apple Music. Partly because I'm feeling more independent, partly because if you use that sort of thing…
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