Another Green World
I’m pleased that Amy has started a new blog, Sparklecloud, yesterday. She’s made me realise how much fun I’ve been missing. Fun is the best reason for blogging that I’ve heard anyone come up with. Even...
View ArticlePrimeval
Here are a few Hipstamatic shots taken on my way home this evening on the road up from Hathersage to Burbage. This is one of three road routes out of Hathersage village. The road mentioned in my,...
View ArticleForge Valley Footpath
For those that don’t know, Sheffield is famous for its steel. In days gone by this valley which I grew up in had a string of water mills. The millstones used to grind cutlery were water powered. It was...
View ArticleChinese Stream Mixed
Chinese Stream Mixed 5.12 minutes. 12.7 MB mp3 file. 320 kbps. Nothing new here really. Just a remix of Chinese Space Shanty including the running water and children’s voices audio which I used on...
View ArticleAmbience, Moorland, River, Sky, Helios
I am increasingly taken by ambient music. I don’t know if it’s old age, a clear head, meditation or my increasingly simple, clean life-style but I am finding lyrics and even melody increasingly...
View ArticleBurbage Rocks in Autumn Mist & Sunshine
The view as I drove across Burbage Moor round the head of Burbage Brook this morning was spectacular. Burbage Brook despite it’s name is actually a glaciated valley with a little stream in the bottom...
View ArticleForty Hertz Rumble, (Rusting Piano Frame Drone).
Click on the arrow/speaker icon below to listen. Download: forty-hertz-rumble.mp3 This is my second drone piece. It started as a field recording of a rusty piano frame in someone’s garden though I’ve...
View ArticleWintery
It’s starting to feel very wintery round here. First two shots taken just before dark. Second two early morning. Look at the sad little trees… and that big cold sky!
View ArticleFrom Sea To Sierra – Video
I have cobbled together some Hipstamatic photographs taken on the 3MP built in camera of an iPhone 3GS into a video. The pictures show the area around Burbage Moor in the Peak District National Park....
View ArticleAlmost Without Form
This is derived from a recording I made some time ago of wind chimes. I like the peaceful sound and feeling and would like to develop this further. It’s actually the idea from the Disquiet Junto...
View ArticleE Minor Blues
Last weekend I went up to Burbage which is in the Peak District National Park just a few miles beyond the city boundary from where I live in Sheffield. On a warm sunny afternoon it’s a beautiful place...
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