May Oh Eight - Analogue To Digital

I'm back in Armidale after being away for nearly 3 weeks. During that time I was up in Queensland on two separate missions. The first was a road trip out to Birdsville with R. The second was some obligatory participation in R's family events. So

Birdsville wasn't …

Soundevolution Competition 25 - Freedom

After years of experiences that have mostly ranged from bad to worse, I have a personal rule of "no song/music competitions". It doesn't seem like my rule is firm enough, as every once in a while I get roped into something. This time Mick Rippon convinced me to do a …

Complexity Crawling Forward

This post is an apology of sorts. I somehow have got involved with quite a few collaborative projects and all of their members deserve a 'sorry'. I am dragging the chain. Life is full of a myriad of necessary daily rituals that chew up the small amount of left over time …

Galloway Street Studio

A quieter weekend has allowed R to kindly take some photos of my studio space at Galloway Street. These photos are not an extensive catalogue of 'every single bit of gear I have', but more or less show the space I work in. You can see more older shots of my gear here, …

2 Smargaid Maerd - Buy It Now

Who would have thought that these days to even attempt to become a successful musician you'd have to learn HTML, PHP and CSS?! Whatever happened to just strumming a guitar? Nevertheless, I have finally got up and running The Shop for this website. Go have a gander: …

Sorry

On behalf of the Australian Parliament Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said sorry for the past injustices against the Stolen Generation and the Aboriginal people of Australia. You can watch the entire speech here. A little excerpt:

Today we honour the Indigenous peoples …

Flash Mp3 Player

W00t! I now have a little flash mp3 player up and going on the mp3 page. I've loaded a few songs into it and will load more soon. You can now stream my music live while being bored at work!

Myspace and Facebook Deleted

Yes you read right. My Myspace and Facebook accounts have been deleted. My little foray into the world of popular web 2.0 is over (although I'll be keeping on with dA and Virb for a bit). If people is at all interested in what I am doing, then they perfectly capable of …

Myspace and Facebook Deleted

Yes you read right. My Myspace and Facebook accounts have been deleted. My little foray into the world of popular web 2.0 is over (although I'll be keeping on with dA and Virb for a bit). If people is at all interested in what I am doing, then they perfectly capable of …

Renoise Loop Project

Mick Rippon has done some great work in getting together a community initiative called the Renoise Loop Project. The aim is to showcase percussion loops made in Renoise so that the wider music making community can see it's potential and also use the loops royalty free …

2 Smargaid Maerd Update

Some more information for you on the recent album release. You can now download the entire mp3 collection from one link:

http://m.thequietrevolution.net/mp3/2_Smargaid_Maerd_mp3s.rar

The above is a 213mb rar file, which will need un-compressing once you have …

Armidale Animal Shelter

Hello everyone and welcome to 2008. Much going on to be written about, but I might as well start off with a little project I've been involved with. Behold:

http://www.armidaleanimalshelter.blogspot.com

If you are a New England resident this is well worth checking …

2 Smargaid Maerd

It has come time to bite the bullet and make public a project that was originally intended for 'commercial only' release. It's time to be less precious about this and present the work in a way that's a little more in-form with the progressive web movement away from …

The ReSelektor 1

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The ReSelektor! This is the first of many monthly "best of" roundups of the songs released by Renoise artists. The aim is to showcase these tunes to show the community how Renoise can be used to make amazing music. These songs are …

Twilight Dreaming

Download Mp3: Twilight Dreaming

Done quickly over two afternoons, this is a "off the cuff" remix for the Nine Inch Nails community remix project. You can find out more about this at http://remix.nin.com/ - but in brief: the multi-track files have been made available …

Uneasy

Download mp3: Uneasy

During an atmospheric rainy evening a few months ago Alex Strain messaged me saying he was in the mood for jamming melody. He sent me a little snippet of reflective notes, moving freely through quiet and dark introspection. It got suggested …

Facebooked

In yet another act of shameless conformity I've joined the socially networked masses at Facebook. You can view my profile here.

Thankfully the experience so far has been infinitely more smooth and easy than the dreaded MySpace. Already I've found some cool widgets …

Nullarbor

Download mp3: Nullarbor

In late 2005 Mum donated a gift in the form of Aajinta's album "Harmonic Spheres". A combo of cello (Michelle John), didgeridoo + clarinet (Jason Day), and harmonic-throat singing (Dean Frenkel), it's an album of sonorous, ambient and dreamy …

Spring Gets Things In Order

The mp3 page has been cleaned up. Hope you enjoy the slicker look as much as I do (who am I kidding, I'm such a web-hack).

There also has been some minor amendments to this blog. Spring cleaning continues...

Growing Old

Download mp3: Growing Old

First composed during 1999, using the old music-software Fast Tracker II. Due to a lingering fascination with the song, and some demand to re-release it (along with other old songs like Student X) I have remixed and remastered this for …