Metaphysical Graffiti

I was out and about today quite a lot on my unending quest for cheap grip-fill. I have become quite a connoisseur, having consumed over 50 tubes so far this week. Anyway, Hoxton is quite an interesting place for graffiti spotting, with new Banksys cropping up all over the place and the like. I saw this astonishing piece today by an unknown vandal, which has a rather Baconesque quality to it:

Round the corner was this rather less metaphysical effort:

Walkthrough

Heres a quick walkthrough of the new bit of the studio, showing the wood panelling I am working on, now that the soundproofing is done. This is the undercoat, I will put another layer of thinner width strips on top to make it look a bit more random. The music is another sketch I made on the Doepfer modular and Korg pedals, from this post

Word of the Week #7

Pauls House

Paul sent me some pics of the house he is building in Cornwall. It brings back memories of me three years ago, when I went through exactly the same thing building my house. A mixture of total stress and total satisfaction rolled into one really long drawn out experience! Looking back it was well worth all the madness of overseeing the build and project managing a pretty big team of builders and craftsmen and tradesmen and salesmen... and it makes my efforts at the studio recently seem very small. Which I am very grateful about. But there is something extremely rewarding about creating by your own hand the space where you live or work. Nice mixer by the way

Baby Snakes

Wood

This is what I was thinking for the live room walls, made with american walnut planks...
This studio is Gilley's, built in 1978 in Pasadena, Texas, by country producer Bert Frilot. That looks like an MCI console, maybe a 400 series

20K

Saw this over on gearslutz - from a thread on 70s studios

Hoxton Electrovision

I was out and about in Shoreditch today and took a few snaps of the neighbourhood

Pedalgogy

I just got my new pedal board through from italian ebay. It took over a month to arrive, but was worth the wait. They are Korg PME 40X units in a special rack, and I'm going to try and collect them all. Korg introduced them in 1983 and the range of effects available was: overdrive, distortion (check), compressor (check), stereo flanger, distortion/wah, stereo chorus, sub-octave generator (check), phaser, waveshaper, noise gate, analogue delay (check), graphic EQ (check), digital delay and digital chorus (check)

I also got two new Doepfer modules, the vactrol-based Low Pass Gate, and a Quad ADSR, which can also act as four independent LFOs

Break all Hz

Remember my Serge Modular project here and here? Well it seems all that hard work paid off, because here you can see it in a starring role in Ladytron's fantastic new video for their single Ace Of Hz