Been very busy of late - the CORBA stuff at work finally works and is now in load testing. CORBA is not a good thing to retro fit to a project - it really needs to be in at the start. Oh well lessons learnt. It shoul give me a lot more freedom in my architecture I think.
Done a lot of travelling this last week - down to Leeds last weekend to see my mate Em. Most enjoyable. It was odd being back in Leeds again - somethings (like the Oak) haven't changed a bit. Others (like the station) have changed a lot. Got to see the Angel of the North at long last. Most impressive - I have always liked Anthony Gormleys work and this is a very powerful piece. In the week I went upto Aberdeen - odd place if you ask me but there you go. Went to watch some of our guys doing a sales presentation - the product is really "there" and people do seem to get it. Very satisfying.
Here are a couple of new tracks - mostly just messing with new ideas. I swapped my old Terratec EWS88MT for a Fostex FD8 hard disk recorder while I was in Leeds. Its nice having a dedicated multi track recorder - rather than setting software up I can just press play and record. The built hard disk says there is 16 odd hours free on it (and thats after recording a number of things). The coolest thing is that it is connected to the pulsar with fibre optic cable - instead of 16 heavy cables like my old mixing desk there are two thin fibre connectors and thats it.
Winterland ( mp3 , 4,457KB , 4:45 )
A seasonal offering - although its more hogfather than Father christmas. The wind is a new modular patch on the Pulsars modular. If you listen to my old stuff (particularly Black Atlantic) you will hear an older wind patch on my Nord Modular. I think the new one is a bit colder sounding (its meant to be). This track is intended to be one of a series but until I have recorded the rest you never know....
Prague Blue (mp3 , 2,063KB, 2:11 )
This a very short piece messing about with a physical modelling sound source (the bangs and clanks) to this I added a trumpet solo and some other percussion noises.
Posted by Mark at December 3, 2001 01:33 PM