John V Willshire's Posts

Finishing this year's #AudioMo, my first, with a reflection on the impact and outcomes of a public commitment of a daily creative task.

The one where I get schooled by a ten year old. It's probably like my Dad felt when I set the video recorder for the first time...

Making the most I can of a beach recording that I knew would be terrible, but captured a moment.

An experiment - choosing a random drum pattern off Garageband, not listening to it, then choosing a random instrument to play over the top. Then recording it in one take. Not totally successful, but a lot of fun...

The thing I've definitely learned most about during #AudioMo is how to use the free music software that's been bundled in my devices for forever and an age. I kind of know what I'm doing now. Kind of.

This one is for all the other AudioMo peeps still going - you're doing great, almost there....

Trying a bit of subtle cricket noise capturing, and getting rowdy foxes instead. I'll take 'em.

Thinking about the benefits of the daily ritual of ¢AudioMo. Making yourself do a thing a day... well, it really does help, doesn't it? Practice, practice, practice...

A short fiction piece, made up on the way home.

Doing something on a Saturday I used to do some 25 or more years ago...

Reflections on some workshops I've been to over the last few weeks, and how long things take, and therefore how long you might plan for...

Using one of the tools that fall under the loose term 'Prosthetics for Thinking' - how to make things that usually happen inside your head happen outside in a useful way.

I have, with 2 mins 35 seconds to go, managed to write, record, export and upload this whole AudioMo piece within one Pomodoro cycle of 25 minutes... ah, 1m 36 now... ok, I have some seconds left... ok, let's just hit upload early. The Infrastructure of work, eh?

Waiting for transformative moments, and a small snatchling of Pixies' 'Carabou' at the tail end...

From up on the hill behind where we live.

An imaginary soundtrack for a great film you just missed on the other channel. Not that we really have channels anymore, but you get the idea.

A recording from the garden on the phone, hence a bit of wind noise and a backing track using the smart strings on GarageBand. #AudioMo 2020, day 13

A post-call exploration of a phrase that came up in conversation with Rob Phillips at the RCA. Featuring guest synth from Miss C. Willshire.

I was surfing through the #AudioMo hashtag, and was inspired by a phrase that Hope (https://twitter.com/hopeslife83) used when talking about the world around her and her family... "In Our Area". I guess we're all very much "in our area" now, and so it seems we are more attentive to it.