Tom Ellard

Belgium. Absolutely Final. Right?

Oh goodie. Zack Parsons has flipped his wig again and is running, well not an ARG, but certainly some weird shit delivered over multiple levels. Start here, read very carefully…

November 15, 2011Game Design, Severed HeadsNo Comments

Ranting Uncategorized

At the heart of Visual Music is…

Thanks to people for the sympathy for the olds. But they passed on a month or so ago (obits take time to write) and I think they were unhappy waiting…

November 6, 2011Ranting, UncategorizedNo Comments

Man Cave Ranting

The Joan: Finale. + IL Groove Machine (sponsored review)

The mountain did not come to Mahomet. I suspect that I have yet again thrown heart and soul into a bucket too small to hold them. That’s my fault; I…

October 26, 2011Man Cave, RantingNo Comments

Ranting Uncategorized

No one gives a damn about your PhD

First of all two notes. THIS COMING WEEKEND WE PLAY AT THE JOAN SUTHERLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE AND THEN NOT AGAIN! SO BRING YOUR TROUSERS! Also Thanks to Image Line…

October 17, 2011Ranting, UncategorizedNo Comments

Ranting Uncategorized

Top 10 ways to GET in TOUCH!!1

1. You have sent 99 mails but still no reply? Maybe I have not noticed! Email #100 is sure to grab my attention and get you a speedy response! Perhaps…

September 17, 2011Ranting, UncategorizedNo Comments

Ranting

The Joan: Technology works, technology delivers

Hey look, it works. OK what have we here. On the left is a new DELL, because the poor old Fujitsu music laptop died in agony trying to hold the…

September 8, 2011RantingNo Comments

Technology Critique

A Serious Post

There has to be one every now and then. Back in the 1980-90′s I used to go on the TV very occasionally and talk about the great things coming up…

September 7, 2011Technology CritiqueNo Comments

Ranting

CDs are dead…

CDs are dead. Dead dead dead. No more CDs and…ooh, courier at the door with box. Whatsis?Oh, it’s the Plastikman CD box set. Bloody hell. You could use this to…

August 27, 2011RantingNo Comments

Uncategorized

Samples I don’t need anymore

MOOG BASS 1 That was the thing in 1990 something. Borrow that Moog you could never afford and sample the crap out of it. End up with a floppy full…

August 15, 2011UncategorizedNo Comments

Technology Critique

Software! Feck! Arse! Parts 1 and 2.

PART ONE In which your host is summoned by Apple to answer for insubordination, and learns how little he knows about Ableton Live So the various imps and demons of…

August 7, 2011Technology CritiqueNo Comments