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A couple of fridays ago I did an phone interview with Adrian Arratoon for Different Class Radio. It’s now up live on their website for a month, so you can go and listen to me talk about my jazz and stamps and stuff. According a friend who listened to it, I sound like I have a beard. He meant it as a compliment.

Go listen!

YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC

[As titles for radio shows go, I am so behind this one]

Nearly a year ago to the day I posted about my New Years Improvements, my own attempt to get myself organised (inspired by the ever fantastic Christine Bougie). Whilst not immediately successful in it’s implementation, it did make me examine how I organise my time – which was both distressing and rewarding – which definitely helped me accomplish some tasks I never seem to finish, like, er, recording stuff!

The publication of Woody Guthrie’s resolutions list (I read about it courtesy of the awesome Brain Pickings site), which I saw sometime in December, made me ponder about the whole idea again. His list seems so humble and yet so inspiring. These little things that make such a big difference, sometimes even just thinking about them….

Learn people better…..Read lots good books…Keep hoping machine running

I had a look at a few of the people who’s blogs I follow to see what they’re upto this year and felt the same ways about theirs too – please go to Crafty Fox and to There are always flowers for more inspiration.

As for me, I’m not going to be as bold as to print out what I would like to achieve this year. There’ll be ore streamlining, for sure, but it will all be to live and experience more.

Well, here’s the last post of 2011 and the last of the Stamps of the Week. Happy New Year everybody. x

I was put on to this video by my good friend Stephen Hiscox (who himself put up a great video I’ll post about about soon) and am most thankful for seeing it as it captures something incredible and fascinating. I remember in my early teens getting the bus home from school and seeing thousands of starlings doing this over Abbey Park in Leicester. Yep, in the middle of a city. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen anything like this in Leicester.

Enjoy.

In July I posted about how a snapshot recording I’d made on the iPhone using the Soundcloud app (and posted to my Soundcloud profile) had been used by the artist nojoined ( David Priestley ) as pat of his composition ‘a lack of faith‘.

The track track now features on a 4 track ep called ‘the colour of monotony‘ that is avaialable to download from aReW recordings for free now. Go and hane a listen and/or download here –

http://www.archive.org/details/ArewRecordingsPresentsrw-056Nojoined-TheColourOfMonotony

One of my snapshot iphone field recordings done with the SoundCloud App has been utilised by another SoundCloud user for their own piece of music.

This piece recorded in my works garden has been used by nojoined for his piece ‘a lack of faith‘. It’s fascinating listening to it how my original recording is altered and transformed as the piece moves on – this is probably due to me remembering the actual sounds whilst there, the mind trying to put the two together.

I really like the SoundCloud app and the way it allows you to share spur of the moment sounds like this and identify and log them to their location and time. That they can then be used as inspiration for something else through the sharing of is also brilliant too. A score for creativity.
Enjoy.