RSS readers might need to click through for the video.
EDIT: I recorded this video using Photobooth and uploaded it to Vimeo, but it seems that – like every video I record with Photobooth – something went wrong with it. In fact, I have a whole litany of hate just for Photobooth, as every occasion I’ve tried to use the useless, idiotically bad, prone to failure, must-have-been-drunk-at-the-time-they-wrote-it application, it truncates the video file. But! It doesn’t do it until you decide to shut down the program, leaving you with the stench of failure just when you thought you’d managed to get something done.
Nevermind. Back to eating chocolate in my pyjamas.
This was wonderful to listen to. Do you know about Longplayer? Based around the concept of, and written for, singing bowls, it’s been playing for almost ten years now and has another 990 or so to go before full circle. http://longplayer.org/ :-)
I found your blog while reading about Dorkbot Newcastle, which I attended the other night. Did you make it there?
Hey Kerrin – thanks for leaving a comment. I did make it to Dorkbot Newcastle but left pretty quickly afterwards, so you might not have seen me around.
As for Longplayer, I had heard of it, but I didn’t know that it used singing bowls. However, did you know that it was created by somebody who used to be in the Pogues? That’s my obscure fact for the day.
I left quickly, too, so unless you’re the guy who struggled a bit to get out of the door as I was walking down the stairs, I definitely didn’t see you :-)
Not sure how they’re generating the singing bowl voices – sampled, modelled sines, a combination – but it’s there, continuously, as potential. It’s quite something to be able to just drop in at any point and listen or meditate. It’s at physical locations around the world, too, one being a lighthouse down south somewhere. I’d love to visit and experience that.
I didn’t know the guy is ex-Pogues! Well, how interesting. Cool! Thank you for that :-)
Are you planning to present any projects at Dorkbot? I have a few but it will probably take another visit or two to kill my nerves!
I’m not planning to do anything at Dorkbot, but I might present something at Datarama on Friday night, at the Tyneside Cinema. There’s probably a link to it on the website for http://ptechnic.org/.
I got interested in the Longplayer project as part of the reading of Anathem I was doing at the time. Since then I’ve read up on the Long Now Foundation and I understand a little more, even if they do come across as batshit crazy.