Reading 2025 - black and white photos taken doing the Kennet & Avon Canal. Includes the old Gas building, former employees homes for the Huntley Palmer biscuit factory.

A very wet day in Cornwall bleurgh. E we had two really nice days though. You have to take the rough with the smooth after all.

The weather yesterday at Newquay was vicious and this photo doesn’t do it justice! We had to wring ourselves out when we got back to our accommodation.

The Cornish weather stone is hilarious

If only the Arcades in Cornwall worked with bitcoin!

We kayaked around this yesterday. Not right up to the boil, that would be very dangerous but we had fun in the fast moving water that it created in its tail. We’ve been kayaking for a number of years now and this was the first time in years my wife or I had done anything like this. We had coaching and learnt a lot and took a little trip around the islands in the river at Shepperton, Thames.

Gonna have a go at making beats on my sampler outdoors. Something I see a lot of Americans, Mexicans and peoples in warmer climate than me doing on their YouTube channels. I’m looking for new sources of sounds all of the time, whether outdoors, vinyl records or sometimes Tracklib for example. If anyone can recommend some for me to check out that will be super.

Always enjoy these and there are some lovely tracks on here. Wondering if all of these originate from Wavlake and other similar places. Interested to learn of others always.

Fountain

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Taking these two gadgets with me to Cornwall this week to do some sound recording. Well it is a family holiday but a man needs to escape for awhile or three. I’m hoping to capture some cousin Cornish sounds and create some beats on the SP using them. I’ll document my process a like bit with some video (maybe). If you are not familiar with these items , let me introduce them to you. On the left we have the Zoom H6 a handy recorder with interchangeable microphone and line inputs to record various things. On the right is the Roland SP404 mk2 a versatile sampler and effects system.

Don’t think I’ve posted this one here so far. A few weeks ago we headed down to Portsmouth and I recorded this video with my X3. I walked from old Portsmouth in the direction of Southsea and it was a glorious morning. Added some of my own music to the video mixing in the sound of the wind and the sea lapping against the shore.

It’s high time I shared some of my musical experiments again on here. I’m driving my Hydrasynth here with Logic Pro for iPad and making live tweaks to the synth on the fly.

Cheeky request. Can someone send me a few sats, testing that I’ve fixed my wallet.

It’s very orange and it sounds beautiful. The hydrants takes pride of place on my desk! Here are some sounds I’ve recorded so far -

Samply

Hydrasynth Explorer Jams

From Nick Lewis

Using ChatGPT I generated a Simpsons version of myself. I loved the result!

If you live close to Reading like we do, you’ll be familiar with this wind turbine. Turns out that there is a path right alongside it and you can get very close to it. On a calm day like yesterday, I couldn’t really hear it until we stood further away from it.

GM everyone. Lovely day out there. Too nice not to go for a pre-work walk!

Taken yesterday using the Leica Lux app on my iPhone, exposure-3 of an old tree root. It looks like something out of a Tolkien story. @PappasBland thanks for your post on Substack that reminded me of this great app.