Reasonably pleased with this one. An exercise in playing over changes I don’t usually play over, as much as anything.
A recording a week for a year – week 8
24 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted A recording a week for a year, Music
in24 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted A recording a week for a year, Music
inReasonably pleased with this one. An exercise in playing over changes I don’t usually play over, as much as anything.
22 Friday Feb 2013
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Byker, Charlton, child poverty, Liisa-Sirkka Konttinen, quantum cloud, Recommended reading, Time Out, Woolwich common
And a photo from (almost) a year ago today:
19 Tuesday Feb 2013
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Posted by Neil Clasper | Filed under London, Photography
17 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted A recording a week for a year, London, Music
inA different kind of recording for this week’s A Recording A Week For A Year:
Just past the midpoint of February and suddenly: a break in the interminable cold. Over to East Greenwich Pleasaunce on Sunday morning; kids and dogs playing, the birds singing. More of this kind of weather, please.
PS, for this kind of thing done properly, I can’t recommend London Sound Survey highly enough.
12 Tuesday Feb 2013
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E1, East End, iPhone, london, Middlesex Street, Petticoat Lane, photography, textiles
A day when even the African textile shops struggled to cheer the place up.
More photography from Aldgate and around here.
10 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted A recording a week for a year, Music
inAt the start of the year I set myself the challenge of making a new recording every week; so far I’ve managed it, though I’ve rarely had more than a couple of hours on a Sunday to produce something. I can’t say I’m wildly enthused by any of the things I’ve recorded but it has had some benefits: a general sense of achievement (or at least productivity, which may be a different thing); a getting to grips with Garageband for iPad; and – I think – some improvement in my guitar playing. The hardest part (apart from writing melodies…) is balancing the desire to just get something rough and ready recorded so as not to get bogged down, but not to bake in sloppiness which can’t be removed at a later point without starting from scratch (spot the ropey timing in some of this week’s effort). At some point I’m going to have to raise the stakes in the challenge, and tackle some actual songwriting, with words and a tune and all that.
In the meantime, here’s this week’s effort – a result of too much listening to mid-period Teenage Fanclub, I suspect:
Here’s the set so far:
05 Tuesday Feb 2013
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Anthony McCall, art, exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, light, Light Show, Southbank, You and I Horizontal
To the Hayward Gallery for ‘Light Show’. Came out feeling slightly as though I’d been beaten up, and not a little travel sick. Recommended.
04 Monday Feb 2013
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