sound art experiment number 8

well it turned out to be quite a geek week over here didn't it.

let's remedy that by sorting you out with some free music, the latest installment in the much delayed SoundArt project.

we're up to number 8 and i have already recieved the artwork for number 9 and am brainstorming ideas at the mo, but lets not let this one pass us by too quickly.

may i present to you, the Art and the Sound of SoundArt8



SoundArt8 by Hunchbakk

and for those of you that aren't quite sure what you are looking at, the above piece of artwork was infact a CD case with cassete tape wound tightly inside, to give the impression of something resembling a Reel to Reel, but also looking like a CD at the same time.

which didn't exactly fill me with inspiration.

instead i decided that it would be a blank canvas for me to work with and decide what i was going to do, which was also rather fitting considering the nature of a blank cassete.

so i set about gathering ideas and even up until the last day working on the track i was still adding ideas as they came to me, much like a cassete tape would be recorded onto over and over.

so i sampled tracks that i heard that appealed to me most, i dug through a pile of minidiscs and snatched short snippets of audio from shows i'd recorded off the radio, i actually sampled a very worn out tape which has quite clearly seen better days.

and although the finished item may not exactly sound like a track that has been worked on for a number of months it still stands as an experimental piece drawing inspiration (and samples) from a number of sources and i would like to acknowledge Big Audio Dynamite, Instra:Mental, D-mob, David Rodigan, John Peel, Steve Lamacq, Eddy TM, Jo Whiley, Akira The Don, Thom Yorke, Bill Hicks and Paul Kaye who all unwittingly contributed.

wrong

i'll admit my mistakes, and when i bitched about the mind-rotting continuity that cripples comics a while ago i had not properly done my research

how was it not obvious to me before? that in my time away from comics Wonder Womans place in the history of the DCU had been restored when Wonder Woman's mother took up the mantle of Wonder Woman and then embarked on a little adventure back in time to the World War 2 era in which Wonder Woman had originally frequented before being retconned and replaced by Black Canary.

it is quite clear now.

thanks Wikipidia

geronimo part 2

ok, i promise not to lay into Matt Smith too much. there has only been one episode and i will reserve judgement until a later date.

but since there still isn't much to go on, lets just take a quick look at an image shot at the filming of 'The Eleventh Hour'

it seems to me that Matt Smith is rather excited (perhaps he is mouthing the word 'Geronimo') possibly down to the fact that he has found something resembling eyebrows in the props department.

it is also a rather good excuse to feature Karen Gillan in her police uniform again.

geronimo

so, Doctor Who has started again, which means i have to find another hour each week to fit in some telly watching, having only just gained an hour when Skins finished.

new season, new doctor and new partner!!

i watched the first episode on the ketchup telly last night, and despite my initial dislike of Matt Smith's Doctor, i think i might grow to like him, or at worst, tolerate him, but only time will tell.

i didn't bode well from the start, ok, you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. but i just don't realy like the look of him. but i'll keep an open mind. alot has also been said so far of his lack of eyebrows, this also bothers me.

but onto the actual episode, and it seems that Matt Smith is trying to do his very best David Tennant impersonation - kinda hoping this is just transitional, either a slight homage to the recently departed Doctor, or the after-effects of the regeneration, or just akward acting til he finds his feet and knows how to become his own doctor.

and i'm already slightly bored of this yelling 'Geronimo' nonsense, just because Tennant had the occasional recurring exclamation of 'Allons-y' doesn't mean we need a catchphrase which has already outstayed it's welcome after barely more than one whole episode.

and what?? this Doctor doesn't like bacon?!??!! i'm realy not liking this chap so far.

but despite all this the episode was enjoyable, i won't give up all hope just yet. hopefully the bacon thing was just a mere oversight too!

what about the new partner? a 'kiss-a-gram' in a kinky policewomans uniform? great!

do kiss-a-grams actually realy exist? or would a Doctor's companion that also works as a stripper been a bit too risky for a BBC family programme?

lets hope she remembered to take her nun, french maid and nurse outfits with her when she hopped into the Tardis at the end of the episode.

so what does the future hold? Doctor Who has hardly been subtle when building up stories in the past and it seems we may be straight into it this time too... i'm certain i caught a quick glimpse of Davros, the laptop used in the episode was quite clearly manufactured by Myth and we have already been given the foreboding warning that 'silence will fall'.

just a handfull of teasers that i'm sure will play out across the season in the same way that similar set-ups like mentions of Bad Wolf, Torchwood and Saxon had echoed throughout past series.

we'll see soon enough, i'm sure.

stray sofas 9

R.I.P Moff Tarkin

ok, Star Wars raps are hardly a new thing, but this well thought out parody track and it's video should make good blog fodder

foolio

has it nearly been a week without a blog post? sorry guys

sometimes the real world gets in the way of the fantasy life i wish to lead and the best of intentions go to waste.

there has of course been the online publication of my Frank Turner review that i mentioned last week, which you can read over at glasswerk.

and i couldn't realy let another month go by without mention of the SoundArt track i have been working on, did i say it may be here in march? well you'll just have to wait a little longer cos i'm still tinkering with bits here and there to get it the way i want it to sound.

i have already been slogging away it it today so i promise that it is getting ever nearer completion.