Category Archives: Music

A Haiku for ETMooc2

Posted on 21st May 2023 by NomadWarMachine

Sitting on a Sunday afternoon, wondering what to do that is vaguely ETMooc2 related, I open up Chat GPT and ask it to write me a haiku about writer’s block. Then, inspired by Kevin’s blog post, I put the haiku … Continue reading →

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Fractal music

Posted on 12th August 2017 by NomadWarMachine

Fractals fascinate me – the mesmerising beauty of their evolving, expanding symmetry never fails to draw me in and remind me how beautiful maths can be.  Mandelbrot, of course – such mathematical cleverness, but also the numerous examples that can … Continue reading →

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Find 5 Friday songs

Posted on 16th June 2017 by NomadWarMachine

It’s Friday, I am alone on the office, and it’s that time of day. Here’s five songs that I like for #F5F The Damned Smash  It Up The Members The Sound of the Suburbs Jeff Beck  Hi Ho Silver Lining Terry … Continue reading →

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Visualising scales

Posted on 12th October 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I recently sent Wendy a string art card I’d made and she responded by playing it back to me. As I listened to how she heard my strings, I realised that I also wanted to play me making the cards.  … Continue reading →

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Who am I this month?

Posted on 10th July 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I had meant to spend more time crafting my intro to  CLMooc16 – trying out some tools I’d not used before, curating some of my digital artefacts – that sort of thing. But then Brexit happened, and everything changed. For … Continue reading →

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Nature Soundmap

Posted on 6th June 2016 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s Daily Create took me a bit of time: The Nature SoundMap site offers a fantastic way to explore the sounds of nature around the world via a map. Pick 5 sounds from places in the world you have never … Continue reading →

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You’ve got a friend

Posted on 18th April 2016 by NomadWarMachine

I couldn’t listen to Carole King for a long, long time. It was Nick’s (my brother’s) music, and hearing it took me back to a hard time of hurt, and pain, and misunderstanding. But two events recently made me realise … Continue reading →

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All join hands

Posted on 13th December 2015 by NomadWarMachine

This weekend we’ve been making music again. First Kevin invited some of us to collaborate in Soundtrap over a song that he’d written with some of us and Ron jumped in and started to add sounds. On Saturday I used Audacity to record … Continue reading →

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Playing pictures

Posted on 18th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

What does your favourite picture sound like? Want to find out? Here’s what I did: I took a screenshot of the DigiWriMo TAGS Explorer with MS Paint and ran it through Audiopaint which I had downloaded (free) a while back. I generated the … Continue reading →

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Roadtrip

Posted on 7th November 2015 by NomadWarMachine

It started with Simon’s students Etienne and Loic who wrote a song about a road trip which Simon encouraged DigiWriMo peeps to record their own version. Several did, and you can find the lyrics and links in this Google Doc as well as in Simon’s … Continue reading →

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