Hebden Bridge: Brass weekend

Hebden Bridge: Brass weekend, june 2010, a photo by phil openshaw on Flickr.

DSCF6985

DSCF6985, a photo by phil openshaw on Flickr.

Undone by philopenshaw

Ambient atmospheric track... enjoy
http://soundcloud.com/philopenshaw/undone

Posting some free sounds/samples

Going to start posting some free samples/sounds i've made over the past few months. I use a lot of generative software and have more electronic bleeps and loops then i could ever use.

Some of them are made with image to audio software such as audiopaint http://www.nicolasfournel.com/audiopaint.htm or coagula http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/Coagula.htm. Both are worth experimenting with if you like bleepy 70's type sounds made from your phone pictures.

Anyway feel free to use if you like anything.

Might start posting up some loops and other bits and pieces if anyone's interested.

Anyway i will be posting via twitter/twitwall for now so if your interested, have a look here
http://twitter.com/philopenshaw or here http://www.twitwall.com/view/?who=philopenshaw for a direct link.

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Dreams

Was listening to a 1964 BBC 'invention for radio' I downloaded from Newstalgia. Its a strange radioplay/electronic composition/montage piece that runs to about half an hour and is worth listening to if you're interested in the tape splicing/music concrete era Radiophonic Workshop.

Its interesting what was considered mainstream listening back then...but maybe that's just common to any era. Anyway the original posting is here.

http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/weekend-galimaufry-bbc-radiophonic-wor

And the montage stuff and sound effects is Delia Derbyshire apparently. So that probably makes it worth a listen...

Glitch DS - Cellular automaton sequence drum machine

Finally got this one working on the Nintendo DS it works by using cellular automaton patterns to trigger multiple samples on an underlying grid...Like most homebrew DS its slightly fussy about what folders go where on your memory card...but apart from that - brilliant. Makes drum loops you would never think of doing manually (not sober anyway). Lots of samples on the site to get you started. You could probably use this for something more melodic if you turned the BPM down...if that's your thing.
It also works on Mac (if you must) and PC now.

http://www.glitchds.com/

Elephant Talk Trades Club

Saw Elephant Talk at the Trades on Saturday...rather good stuff.
have a look at the website at http://www.elephanttalk.co.uk/ .

Transpennine Express

Finished the LP last week...10 tracks of electronic loveliness which can be found to download at:
http://www.last.fm/music/phil+openshaw/Transpennine+Express
It will be on iTunes etc in a few weeks but if you want to listen to listen to the tracks you can also pop in at http://www.reverbnation.com/philopenshaw or have a look at http://www.philopenshaw.com .