The other night I really enjoyed listening to the blues band 'Split Whiskers'. Especially the harmonica player who had a great sound thanks to a little handheld mic called the 'Harmonica Honker'. I have a mic called the Green Bullet but it's heavy and cumbersome and gets in the way of playing. Looking around online there are so many options. Some looked simple enough to hack together and so I was … [Read more...] about Homemade Harmonica Microphone
Music
Hunny Yum And The QT Bum Fairies – Didums
I have been looking for a copy of this single for a long time now. Not because I particularly like the music. More for sentimental reasons as my biological Dad played on it. Yup, he was a bit of a hippy. Anyway. Googling 'Hunny Yum And The QT Bum Fairies' very surprisingly brings nothing up. Till now I guess. No doubt this post will feature pretty highly. So if you do come across a copy, or … [Read more...] about Hunny Yum And The QT Bum Fairies – Didums
Rachmaninov
Prelude in C minor by Rachmaninov. Recorded with the Zoom Q3. … [Read more...] about Rachmaninov
Longplayer Live at The Roundhouse
Longplayer Live is an incredible endeavor. I first blogged about it here. A single composition playing for 1000 years. It started in 1999 and on the 12th of September I was invited by Artangel to blog about it live. It was a great day. It was a long day. 1000 minutes of 1000 years. You can find some Audioboo's by myself and others tagged with Longplayer here and some of my Flickr images … [Read more...] about Longplayer Live at The Roundhouse
Longplayer Live
On the back of a bus in 1995 a guy called Jem Finer had an idea. Nearly five years later in 1999, on the verge of the third millennium that idea came to life as a thousand year long musical composition was set into motion. Longplayer is a piece of music that’s been playing since 31 December 1999 and will keep playing until 31 December 2999. The composer Jem Finer created it in such a way that it … [Read more...] about Longplayer Live