Friday 14 December 2012

Experimenting in Berlin

At the invitation of longtime friend and colleague Peter Schmidt I am on my way to Berlin for a weekend of preproduction experimenting in the wonderful Teldex Studio. We are working on developing songs of Nora Grisu, in a team of 4 guys and her. I have the DarkTime and Tinysizer with me, and have bought a new module from SchneiderLaden for the occasion - Make Noise Phonogene. Excited.

Best,
Gareth

Tuesday 11 December 2012

Polly Scattergood at Madame JoJos

Wonderful to be at Madame JoJos with lots of friends and colleagues to support and admire Polly at her London gig. Enjoying a dynamic build to the set and Polly's sparkly jacket. Also it is really interesting to hear new versions of songs from the last album (re)interpreted by Polly and Glenn. I am touched and hope Polly feels our love. Made a few photographs which I will post later.

I opened the TinySizer

My new room at Strongroom

Thursday 23 August 2012

Wednesday 4 April 2012

Red Bull BassCamp Italy

A short Video Diary overview in which I say some stuff.



Saturday 3 March 2012

Dictation vs Typing

I am finding that when using Dragon Express to express my thoughts, there is a real difference in the result when I speak to the computer or when I type on the keyboard. Not only is there a different quality to the way that I express the idea, but also, beyond that, the ideas themselves are different. Perhaps ideas is too grand a word. The e-mails, the communications, the notions are genuinely different. This is deep. Speaking, for me, is a much more natural process (and one that dates from much earlier in my life) and typing. It has become clear to me through the use of Dragon Express dictation that I express myself better by speaking.

Wednesday 29 February 2012

David's Lyre in the Pool

Great session with Paul in the Pool Studio (Thanks to Miloco) yesterday recording the songs that he has been performing live. Just Vocal and Electric Guitar. A real session with filming (videoing?) too. Coming your way soon we hope.

Sonoma Wireworks

I endorse DrumCore and the new GuitarJack2. I did a short interview with Daniel at SWW. Available here

Die menschliche Seite der Plattenproduktion

I enjoyed a lengthy Skype interview with Lilian Franke on Skype last week. We did the interview in English but she has translated to German and uploaded to TrueTrash (in German) - “Die menschliche Seite der Plattenproduktion”

Sunday 19 February 2012

FAN

FAN - a short (Depeche Mode focused) film from Poland including interviews with Alan Wilder, Adrian Sherwood and Myself

Saturday 14 January 2012