Inspired is an awesome way to feel. A wee while ago that’s just how I was feeling, so I set up my iPhone to take some video – precariously balanced on a cardboard box, which was precariously balanced on the back of a couch; then plugged my wee recording device into the headphone jack of the last Kaoss Pad in my signal chain. Then I just jammed on one of the songs I had been working on recently to see what would come out of it. This video is the result – with some compression on the mix and a limiter to bring it up to the correct volume I'm fairly pleased with the sound. There’s a bit of a wierd electronic squeak/hiss behind it but overall I was pleased with how it came out...

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Posted: 10th November, 2011

I love experimenting with new toys. This new toy was a birthday present, and it makes some really cool sounds. It’s a Novation Xiosynth 25 – Virtual Analogue Synth. I spent the day of my birthday playing around, trying to find every sound that it could make and ways to use it with my looping set up. Then I decided to have an ‘expression session’ and video it. At the time there was a world looping championship being run by Boss, and I had been watching some AMAZING looping videos by some ridiculously talented loopers from around the world. This inspired me to give it a go myself, even if Boss weren’t going to run a New Zealand leg of the contest.

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Posted: 10th November, 2011