Emptying the Haunted Air

I will no longer be posting things called travel diaries, because I was never really travelling in the first place. Hell, it’s not even a working holiday – my salary here doesn’t translate too favourably into my home currency, as XE.com is alsways quick to remind me.

Jourmedian – a delightful coalescence of the words journalist and comedian – refers to the twats who present the new ABC TV show, Hungry Beast, while also indicating its structure and tone. It combines didactic (albeit occasionally informative) journalism, lame sketch humour, ill-conceived blog-style rants and general wankery into half an hour of incomprehensible television. [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m well and truly back into AudioMulch, to the extent that I feel frustrated just looking at Ableton Live, and its big stupid grid of grey rectangles. Mulchelton Live The truth is that Mulch and Live represent my two distinct tastes in music – on one side, Tim [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dance? Electronic? I don’t know… I bought Ableton Live recently, and haven’t been able to get enough of it. The software sits perfectly in the middle of my two other favourite pieces of production software – the delightfully modular AudioMulch and the fantastically… something Adobe Audition. Ominously, it [...]