Free music here!!!

It does depend on what you call music but, it is free because it’s mine! Like all others before it, it was “crafted” [ahem], in just a few hours and I’m absolutely sick of hearing the loops over and over, the same sounds, the same samples, the same noise – but I’ve heard it for the last 5+ hours so it’ll be fresh to you.

chipko – bounce and break.mp3 [3.24Mb]

Christmas will be over with in exactly one week, that is if you go by GMT-0. I still have to get stuck in on Christmas shopping but now with working a lot over the next week, I am going to have to plan carefully. There are more than just wolves in the shops at the moment…

It’s now getting too late considering the time I have to be up tomorrow!
Hmmm, that ad to the right looks interesting, I think I might click on it! Feel free to click as many as you like!

Random picture time:

Animaniacs: One of the lost but not forgotten cartoons!!!

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Mental note: Take big stick when shopping tomorrow at West Yorkshire Retail Park …

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Update [30 Aug 2006]: You can now buy Animaniacs Volume I on DVD (region 1 only) – you can buy it here: http://www.playusa.com/

Animaniacs is © Copyright Amblin Entertainment/Warner Brothers Television Animation

New and Improved! No not this site, a tune!

I made “telly phony” in one day, start to finish but I forget when I awoke, or when the day started as I’ve not been sleeping and getting up at ‘normal’ times. The track grew and grew as I played and I tinkered, to what has become a monster! It’s a little dark, it’s a little weird, but the samples from the Matrix work well with the track.

I’ll no doubt end up going back to this in the future to better it even further, but until that day, you can enjoy the newer version. The link below will download the same version, but if you are too lazy to scroll down:

chipko – tellyphony.mp3 [right click and save as a small creature on your desktop]

As it costs money to host these files, if you don’t mind just checking out some of the links on the right, I’d really appreciate it!

I’ll try get some design work done on the site tomorrow so I can start taking it further. Again, too much to do, and so little time!

One tune becomes two tunes (albeit very similar)

Wow, another update!

I woke up and I really need to get on top of some chores like going to the laundrette to dry my clothes. I am working tonight and so since awakening an hour and a half ago, I have managed to stumble to the shops, sit down and work on my One Tune track. I’m getting better at using the tools I’m presented with, and now I’m at a height up the learning curve where it’s easier to see where I’m going (and where I’ve been).

chipko – One Tune Two.mp3 [6.7Mb]

There’s only one loop ripped from another track – see if you can spot it. Answers on a postcard called e-mail to the usual address. If you get it right, you can have a silly vocal track made about you (1st attempt coming up).

It’s where I need to go play next .. with some vocals…. Any singers out there fancy a shot? Elizabeth?! 😀

Enough for now, there’s some shopping to be done, some chores to work at and then I have to work 12 hours! The good news? I’ve hopefully got a new mattress coming in the next day or two….

* dum .. tish .. dum .. dum .. tish .. *

BBC Radio One giveaway free samples! [nothing new but you know…]

I made another track, this time, not by ripping loops from existing tracks but by downloading free samples from the BBC websitehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic/studio/

I’m getting better and more productive at making some music but it’s still got a long way to go. It’s not unusual for me to leave a piece and pick up days, weeks or months later, and “fix” it up a little. Without further ado, here’s One Tune.

chipko – one tune.mp3

Again, right click the link and choose Save As…

Some music I’ve been making…

Here’s another PlayTrack(tm) track I’ve made. It’s not too bad if you like your dark breaks and electro peaks (or something like that anyway). It’s 5.some meg in size and to obtain a copy, right-click the following link and choose Save-As .. or whatever you have to do…

An Eon Away

I know there’s not been any updates for almost 2 weeks now, but I’ll try get something up on here in a while… it’s the silly season once more …

A Digital World

To most people, being able to get up at 6pm would be heaven, but tonight, it means I have a whole night to work away – and it’s only 10pm. In nine and a half hours I shall be free to go home but the temperature is dropping more every day. The nights are getting longer so much so it’s now dark when I start work, and dark when I finish. This was as I was waiting for the bus home this morning:

I’ve made my first DVD, complete with a DVD menu but now I am left with too much of a canvas and not enough ideas! It amazes me that within the last 10 years, we as humans, have started to take more digital photos, have welcomed the ability to burn CDs cheapily and easily – and now with DVD burners being so cheap, being a DIY director is in the grasp of millions!

Whilst I can take photos of what I see, I would much prefer to capture video – videos show so much more character than their still counterparts. Whilst you can take a photo of what you see without drawing particular attention to any one thing by just holding the camera and hoping for the best, it’s harder to get video that way. I want video but I don’t want to carry a video camera around looking like a tourist or something… not out and about. Maybe a crew, safety in numbers as they say!

Incidently, I got a few photos before the sun came up this morning. It’s a magical time to be outdoors, if you time it right, you can see the higher clouds change colour from orange through to yellow, and eventually white (or grey). Then, the lower clouds until the sky is [patchy] blue and white[/grey]. Unfortunately my camera is often blind to the many colours of the world, but from a defrosted portion of a bus window, I got a couple of interesting ones…

If you have any good advice on how to affix a video camera to a car on a tight budget, please email me! More to come later, I have work to do 🙁

When you sit in front of your screen trying to think of something to type for several minutes and achieve nothing – it’s better off not to type!

Enjoy these instead:

PS: The first person to email the description of the first (red glow) picture wins an email postcard. Click m@il me next to the time at the end of this post to enter!

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small print: Competition closes when I feel like closing it. The judges decision is final and no correspondance will be entered into.. etc, etc, etc…

Silly Sunday Shopping

Yesterday, I was rained upon, I found some cows (underneath a power line pylon of all places), I trekked through domesticated, wild grass and found a spiked fence. Sadly, I didn’t get photos of all those but I did get a lucky shot…

In this day and age, most of us rely heavily on power and I guess I’ve always found the power pylons(tm) to be rather majestic. I set out to get some pictures of those but I’ve yet to do anything with those I got. What I did find was a field of cows grazing beneath very high voltage power lines. I don’t know the latest findings of scientic research into the effects of high voltage overhead power lines on living tissue but for the safety of the cows, I hope they don’t try and climb up for a better view (and there are some nice views around there…)

With it starting to rain and with the grass already wet, it didn’t take long for my feet to get soaked. Onwards I trekked to the most dangerous jungle of all .. a retail park on a Sunday afternoon. It was scary!

I was on a mission, to get in and out as quick as possible. I found what I was looking for and browsed over the overpicked food in Boots. It didn’t take long until I was ready to leave but by then, there were lions about! And their offspring! They were making their ways to the checkouts so I had to think quick – I couldn’t get past them to be first at the tills .. arrrgh! I was trapped. In an orderly fashion they all followed each other, behind the customers in front of them, sheepishly, to the main cash registers. They were lined up, waiting to be served.. What do you do in a situation like that? Look around you!

It surprises me that people won’t look for alternative payment places.. I’m glad they don’t! I had a nice chat with a nice lady who worked there and if you happen to read this, I still don’t know when Habitat opens! Oh and I got served straight away…

It was leaving there to take a picture of the madness in the carpark that I stumbled upon a lucky snap. I saw a parking attendant dressed in yellow (yes, a parking attendant directing traffic in a car park is madness!). I didn’t want to stand out taking a picture with my phone so I walked away, this one parking attendant in the corner of my gaze. I pointed to my left and took a picture of this one attendant. I checked my picture and another had appeared further away, and they’re both doing the same thing! Magick!

Enough talk, here’s the pictures – you’ll also see more greenery, the road back from the madness, and a pet food phactory!

I’ll have to leave it there. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so there’s a little reading for you. I have to do some chores and rest, maybe tomorrow, I’ll get more done on my other page http://study.theworldatlarge.net

Doei!

Expecting Some Snow for Winter!

The UK may see more snow this winter! To me, that’s some of the best news I’ve heard all day but some people don’t like snow. They’ll see it as nothing more than a chore. I’ve lived in Australia for 16 years in the best kept secret that is Perth and whilst the south may see snow flakes, they last little more than a minute.

More news of snow and the cold winter for 2004-05 can be found here [BBC]

and now, for something kompletely different…

I’ve been creative again, so it’s not completely different but this time it’s aural [dis]pleasure – well make you own mind up! Before you think it might be any good, consider the fact I am not a musician, I’m am a mere tech support monkey.

Stay for a Cry
::: It’s 9.3Mb! Right click – Save Target As …

The name was nothing more than bits of song titles that morphed to what it is now. if I were to have left all the bits, it’d be something like Bruce Lee, Stay or a while, light, reactor, cry baby. Stay for a cry seems apt since a close friend is travelling away…

Corinna is a brilliant woman whom I’ve know for just over 2 years – the amount of time I’ve lived in Leeds. She’s off to travel the world, to see Perth(!), Australia, Africa, Thailand, loads of places, white water rafting, safari tours, etc, etc, etc .. and THEN – she’s not even coming back to Leeds! She’ll be down in London doing really well for herself.

Random pictures of the day?

I got these from a bus, travelling home after a nightshift, a few mornings ago.