Tag: Music

If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.

  • A sound pitch: audio puzzler Sentris threatens to unleash your inner musician

    A sound pitch: audio puzzler Sentris threatens to unleash your inner musician

    We’re all aware the indie scene is bursting. And the onetime underloved genres – roguelikes, simulations, CCGs – are proliferating well. Filling up quietly and fast is the music genre, with Crypt of the Necrodancer, Audiosurf 2, and Soundodger all hitting recently. But Sentris makes large claims to creativity, on generating music, rather than just…

  • That Song Meme – part 1.

    There was a meme travelling my friend’s pages a couple of months ago, infecting time-rich and socially-starved brains as it went, and it was a music meme. I don’t have the musical erudition like Mister Gillen to write my life story into every song, but here’s a selection of my musical gems, shoehorned into this…

  • Science Is Real: They Might Be Giants

    http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/am3/20090812135319945/AMPlayer._V233929472_.swf Science. Is. REAL.

  • Come On Nietzsche

    Come on Nature by the Proclaimers. Why did I assume they were saying “Come On Nietzsche”? Would they walk five thousand miles to see some shadows cast on a cave wall? Would they send a letter to America declaring the death of god? The only link between them and the ubermensch is twin studies… This…

  • Islington F**k Club

    The panelling was quite obviously laid by Jackson Pollock, seemingly randomly accreted in different corners and heights around the oddly columned room that some aspiring architect with a sledgehammer has carved out above the Horseshoe pub in Farringdon. The people were odder still, a collection of people who look like they’d fought tramps for their…