http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7464584.stm

This is Bunny Colvin-esque levels of thinking outside of that box!

And then, to make matters even more spooky:

“We’re determined to cut red tape and ensure police officers are best placed to make decisions about local policing,” Mr McNulty said.

That’s a Tony McNulty, not a Jimmy.

The doodle of a colleague

Originally uploaded by pigsy

The question is, can you guess which colleague?

http://www.moogmusic.com (there’s a vid currently on theie homepage).

What I don’t get, is if what you hear is the result of post processing, why not just release the processing unit, and let the guitarists ride their preferred axe? I don’t get what about the processing (essentially sustain and/or gate) can’t be achieved by playing a foot pedal? (This is not rhetorical - I would like to be proved wrong)

Also, why isn’t it called the Moogar?

Here I am riding my preferred axe the other week:

It’s a Fender Nashville Telecaster, made in Mexico. The Nashville’s have an added Stratocaster pick-up between the two traditional Tele pickups. The switch is probably in the neck position in this photo, and several pedals are turned on to create a soundman’s worst nightmare/mask the odd bum note/make girls cry.

A ridiculously cute puppy that we met in Koh Tao, Thailand on a boat.

Ecce is proud to welcome Dom Hoare of Echaskech to the fold. Dom will be helping me out performing the Ecce songs live, providing sequencing, Monome-ing, backing vocals and percussion. Bask in his open chested tweed glory.

The intro to the Ecce song ‘Alison’ performed on the Monome 128, using the program MLR in Max/MSP.

I’ll be playing a gig at Concrete @ The Hayward Gallery on Saturday 31st May.

I should also be playing at Synthetic:
http://www.myspace.com/syntheticnight
soon. More details to follow.

Walter in a tree

Originally uploaded by pigsy

wishing us well on our way to work.

tom

Originally uploaded by pigsy

Meanwhile, across town in a cafe, Emma was talking about rugby.

Following on fron the setup tutorial for Enableton, here’s a quick tutorial of how to use this to get MLR style functionality in Ableton Live. MLR is a sampler written by the Monome source himself, Tehn, for Max/MSP. It’s one of the Monome’s flagship programs, but unfortunately, while Live users would like to be able to use it alongside their Live projects, Max/MSP does not midi clock sync well with Live (though it works well the other way around). This tutorial will give you MLR style functionality within Live itself, cutting out the middle man, so to speak. (Read on …)