Posts Tagged: music

Weekendy / Worky — No Comments
24
Dec 09

So here’s my Twelve Links of Christmas

Fol­low­ers of my tweets may have noticed their twit­ter­ing calm punc­tu­ated by the occa­sional #12linksofChristmas over the past couple of weeks.

These are like­able links that I’ve found enjoy­able, enlight­en­ing or just plain inter­est­ing over the past 12 months.

Humbled by its appar­ent pop­ular­ity, I’ve been asked to pub­lish the Twelve Links in their entirety (with apo­lo­gies for the inclu­sion of the bit.ly links, but speed is of the essence on Christ­mas Eve). So here they are; all in one place.

To read­ers of my blog — because there are some (!) — con­sider this my way of saying ‘thank you’ for paying atten­tion to my sporadic posts from time to time in 2009. Next year, I plan to be a little bit more fre­quent in my postings.

Res­ol­u­tions eh?! Con­tinue reading →

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4
Jul 09

Anyone for Pogo?

I posted a link to Pogo in a tweet a couple of weeks ago but think he deserves a post on the blog.

Aside from the fact that I have a per­sonal pref­er­ence for the kind of music he is cre­at­ing, what I also love is his abil­ity to take some­thing as ubi­quit­ous as speech and, by lay­er­ing more and more excerpts of dia­logue one upon the other woven together with a bass line and melody, trans­forms it into some­thing extraordinary.

(Glan­cing back to my ‘Some­thing for the week­end’ post a couple of weeks ago, I spy a theme emer­ging here.)

Pogo him­self mod­estly says: ‘The track is com­posed of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recor­ded from the Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’.

I con­sider the man from Perth, Aus­tralia, to be an artist of real skill; his com­pos­i­tions just happen to be painted in sound and video.

There’s more from Pogo at his You­Tube and MySpace sites. I recom­mend it if you need a dose of uplift­ing optim­istic ideal­ism as part of the daily grind.