John V Willshire's recent posts to audioboom.com
Finishing this year's #AudioMo, my first, with a reflection on the impact and outcomes of a public commitment of a daily creative task.
The one where I get schooled by a ten year old. It's probably like my Dad felt when I set the video recorder for the first time...
Making the most I can of a beach recording that I knew would be terrible, but captured a moment.
An experiment - choosing a random drum pattern off Garageband, not listening to it, then choosing a random instrument to play over the top. Then recording it in one take. Not totally successful, but a lot of fun...
The thing I've definitely learned most about during #AudioMo is how to use the free music software that's been bundled in my devices for forever and an age. I kind of know what I'm doing now. Kind of.
This one is for all the other AudioMo peeps still going - you're doing great, almost there....
Trying a bit of subtle cricket noise capturing, and getting rowdy foxes instead. I'll take 'em.
Thinking about the benefits of the daily ritual of ¢AudioMo. Making yourself do a thing a day... well, it really does help, doesn't it? Practice, practice, practice...
A short fiction piece, made up on the way home.
Doing something on a Saturday I used to do some 25 or more years ago...
Reflections on some workshops I've been to over the last few weeks, and how long things take, and therefore how long you might plan for...
Using one of the tools that fall under the loose term 'Prosthetics for Thinking' - how to make things that usually happen inside your head happen outside in a useful way.
I have, with 2 mins 35 seconds to go, managed to write, record, export and upload this whole AudioMo piece within one Pomodoro cycle of 25 minutes... ah, 1m 36 now... ok, I have some seconds left... ok, let's just hit upload early. The Infrastructure of work, eh?
Waiting for transformative moments, and a small snatchling of Pixies' 'Carabou' at the tail end...
From up on the hill behind where we live.
An imaginary soundtrack for a great film you just missed on the other channel. Not that we really have channels anymore, but you get the idea.
A recording from the garden on the phone, hence a bit of wind noise and a backing track using the smart strings on GarageBand. #AudioMo 2020, day 13
A post-call exploration of a phrase that came up in conversation with Rob Phillips at the RCA. Featuring guest synth from Miss C. Willshire.
I was surfing through the #AudioMo hashtag, and was inspired by a phrase that Hope (https://twitter.com/hopeslife83) used when talking about the world around her and her family... "In Our Area". I guess we're all very much "in our area" now, and so it seems we are more attentive to it.
@scottlo on twitter said he'd be interested in hearing more about 'The Certainty of Delivery at some point, and so this is that. Plus, a tiny treat for Frances Ford Coppola fans at the end.
Recording out in a field, under an oak tree, then adding a little accompaniment back at home in the evening.
Rediscovering an old Audioboo account, matching everything up, and thinking about an age of podcasts and newsletters.
Still trying to work within an hour, but trying to up the craft level... Thinking about the importance of words in songs and social audio, and what that means in prioritisation for a working process.
Sleepy Saturday evening, after a full-on day.
Learning some new tricks in a very basic way, and just being a part of the rhythm of conversation on #audiomo.
Left to the last minute, and something a bit different.
Continuing reading from an introductory piece of writing for a Smithery project, and also noodling in Garageband for an hour to make a soundtrack in the background. Trying to limit myself on time to spend less than an hour a day on the whole thing, writing, recording, editing. Hopefully the sound balance is better today.
Second instalment of Audiomo 2020. A short excerpt from something I'm writing on a deep thinking dove into futures, design, information and understanding, and all the things you need to think about in constructing projects around these things. This excerpt though is essentially texture to the piece, but using Audiomo as an experiment to help refine the words seems that it might be a useful practice. What does your writing sound like when you read it aloud?
The first instalment of #Audiomo 2020 - originally uploaded to Soundcloud, then pulled across to play with in Anchor, and now, FINALLY, consolidating with previous projects on Audioboo.
A first exploration of The Relativity Matrix with Scott Smith, Georgina Voss, Natalie Kane and Andrew Sleigh, at the Lighthouse Arts in Brighton.
An immediate reaction to this brilliant post - http://planninginhighheels.com/2014/01/22/the-winter-of-our-discontent/
A brief recap of what happened on day two, and what we're doing today - the theme is "Making Things People Want", and it's open house day too... http://thekeytoleadership.tumblr.com
Notes on the second day of http://thekeytoleadership.tumblr.com
Starting the first day of 'The Key To Leadership' at the Said Business School in Oxford. Today's theme is 'the Dialogic Brand'. Follow all of the project at http://thekeytoleadership.tumblr.com
Immaterials, Brighton, dConstruct, Iain M Banks, visible technology
Audiohunch, social media, marketing, media, data, big data
Artefact Cards, Artomatic, smithery, product, design
Antony Mayfield on Artefact Cards, Mindfulness, Working Practices & Marathons
More investigations on audio hunches, featuring added Columbo.
A latest audiohunch from Constitution Hill...
A conversation that starts with Artefact cards, then wanders into new forms of Audio and Video media...
Some thoughts on what #SXSW has become as an experience for those tuning in remotely...
Every week I get a wonderfully strange email from 'Ghanker', which I think might be some sort of Chinese wholesaler or middleman, offering to make me ANYTHING...
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