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SHINDIGGERY NEWS

2009-04-22T05:32:00.000-07:00

Henry and I are currently working on artwork and rewriting shindiggery. But not in blog form, no. It's going in one word document, for easy reading, we're taking out SOME of the in-jokes and the story might just be a little bit funnier, insaner and more mind-meltingly awesome than ever before. Expect more shindiggery, including Will on the moon, Pam spencer and her curry-powered car and a continuation of Will's knitting saga! Unfortunately, you're going to have to wait a while, because I'm a slow writer. And I forget to add to it. There will also be an audio version, acted out by Henry and myself, with sound effects and music by the MIGHTY microkorg XL! And we may end up with a youtube video of it, but it's gonna be a LONG TIME before we get round to it.

Get ready for funsies, and get a laugh on!

In other news....

2009-04-22T05:26:00.000-07:00

People I DON'T hate right now:
Jon, Adam, Kris, Henry, Sam and Nicole, Pam Spencer, Karl, Guy-manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Pete Burns, Buck Hollywood, Jory Caron, Jonny Paula, Riley McIlwain, Everyone at scouts except Joe, Holly and the smalls, . I think that's it.

Brief Rage Moment....

2009-04-22T05:22:00.001-07:00

HOMOPHOBIA. What does it mean? I am sick of people constantly calling people who make negative comments towards gays homophobic. homophobes have genuine FEAR of gays, not just dislike, to the point where I even shouted at the old head of year about it. LEARN ENGLISH BITCHES! If you don't know what a word means, don't say it! Literally, somebody called someone else a faggot and suddenly they're a homophobe!?!?! This reinforces the fact that I hate EVERYONE because EVERYONE I know has said it at some point.

Piss off, all of you. You're annoying me.

Hello again Léon!

2009-04-15T08:51:00.000-07:00

Gakken have just released a little mini theremin, it looks like an etherwave standard but white and smaller. Only about £70, and I fully intend to buy one! It sounds lovely, and I can put it through the effects on my synth. So prepare yourselves, the theremin is back in town! Only £20 and I can buy one! SCORE!

Also, I went on a canal boat holiday with a cub pack at the weekend. It was amazing, we went up the rivers lee and stort, one of the boats broke down and I met the new leadersfor the 9th Orpington explorer scout group! They're really nice, I had a great time, the boat got fixed and toast was had by all!

Fear?...

2009-03-28T04:13:00.000-07:00

I'm seriously worried about Daft Punk. Busy P has confirmed they were working on their new album last year, taking their time, but I don't know what's going to come out of it. Human after all was, let's face it, pretty bad. What if this time they go for half an hour of white noise or just one note held for a whole track? I REALLY want them to go back to the way they were before, but the new album is coming out some time this year and I suppose I just have to see how it goes. But if it's REALLY bad, I might not buy it. That's a terible thing to say, but theyd better be good.

A Tutorial Moment...

2009-03-08T09:02:00.000-07:00

If you have a microkorg XL and you're reading this... coincidence much!

Find a patch you don't like, go to page "utility - init.prog", select y or yes with knob 2 or 3 and then write (which should be flashing). go to oscillator 1, and change the waveform to pulse wave, and that's it! You might also want to put a bit of highpass filter on, for the crappy 8bit gameboy speakers. set common - assign to mono.

Also, an initialized patch with a sine wave (monophonic), some portamento and vibrato on the mod wheel. Lowpass filter, but with cutoff at 120 - 127 so it warms it up but you cant really hear. Thats a theremin sound!

again...sorry, I think

2009-03-08T08:31:00.000-07:00

My microkorg XL was delivered 2 or 3 days after ordering. It's awesome. Fellow musician Jon Boutell (epyks.co.cc) has been helping me rewrite daft punk songs with slightly different lyrics. We've got "Atour le Monde" (around the world in French) "Cuban after all" (Human after all) and a slightly racist version of harder better faster stronger (which is going on HIS youtube channel if uploaded). I've been vocoding constantly for days, playing around, changing, writing my own programs. I've got theremin sound (problem 1 solved) and and 8bit sound i made myself (for techno into-ey things, sounds like a gameboy, with filtering to simulate the crappy speaker). I will post some more later on. Over and out, blogbitches.

Erm....sorry?

2009-02-22T00:08:00.000-08:00

The theremin. Since before I decided to save to buy one, I have been thinking about the microKORG synthesiser. Its a hardware synth, and it has a vocoder. But so many people complained about it, I though the theremin was a better idea. Since my birthday (12th February 2009), I have been able to afford the theremin, but recently korg released the microKORG XL. It seems that all of the old problems (The crappy keyboard, crappy vocoder, crappy vocoder mic) Have been sorted out, and they've changed the editing system to one I understand (With a screen that can show words!).

On Friday, I ordered it. From digital village at DV247.com. I am (I believe) One of the first people in the country to own one of these (I bought it just hours after it came into stock and most other websites are still only preordering). I decided to buy it because I feel it is more relevant to the music I make and listen to, an extension of my love for soft synths. There will quite likely be Youtube videos, I might post them here, and the aidin project may still survive (albeit without the frantic waving at a little black shoebox, or screaming noises every time I high-five someone).

Latest musical news-age

2009-01-14T12:31:00.000-08:00

As of hristmas, I now have a korg nanoKEY usb MIDI controller. This means an end to all that playing stuff on a computer keyboard, and everything's lovely. I am also now 80-ish quid away from buying a theremin and all of the bits to make it work, since finding a lot of small change in my there-tin. The "project" arising from the purchase shall be called "A.I.D.I.N." (All I Do Is Noise) and will involve music, and theremin-related experiments. enjoy

Pray silence for the synthesizer

2008-10-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

If you've downloaded the Pro-53 synthesizer demo, you're going to be having fun with it. So open it up, make sure you're on "Super Sync Lead" and then turn "Attack" and "Decay" in the filter section all the way to the left. Now press this sequence of keys.
y (hold) t, y, i, e (hold) , w, e, t, q(hold), m, (comma key), /, n (hold), m, (comma key) and then Repeat. You should end up with something like "Da Funk" by Daft Punk. Godbye...

And now, a brief moment of sanity

2008-10-28T07:59:00.000-07:00

Yes, after pasting all those little nuggets of...something from my Bebo, I feel extremely tired. To inform those who are interested, I am now £45 away from buying theremin and sitting staring at it because I wont be able to afford a mic stand, cable or amp. But anyway.

Soon there will be a new Maplin's electronics in Orpington, at the Nugent Estate. I will go there with my friend Hnery, and we will buy little switches and circuit bend little toys from charity shops. And you will hear about it. Also, I'll try and find a compression horn driver, and make me a talkbox.

And if you can bear all that, go over to http://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=pro53demo&L=1 and download the Pro-53 synthesizer. It's great. You can buy it if you want. If anyone finds a good talkbox sound setup, do tell me.

Will Brearley, signing off.

Shindiggery 5

2008-10-28T07:54:00.000-07:00

As the slightly peculiar trio ran through the ship, round and round in circles through the same bloody corridoors over and over again beacause SOMEONE forgot the bloody map, Jenny had a thought. This was far too much for her, so she exploded. Henry stopped and took off his shoe. It was full of bailey's which he drank and continued. Will didn't do anything nearly as interesting as the other two.Then they arrived at the control room. They listened in to number 10 downing street, and heard the code. The code was: 018372752851724059874369017651093470958 247935173 Which henry noted down on his tongue for future reference. Henry, will, Jenny's body and her head walked back to the ship, and were unspectacularly catapulted back into space, on the way back to Earth. During the journey, Henry ate a total of -7 apples and Will took up knitting, and made Jenny a new head.

Shindiggery 4

2008-10-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

"Prepare to dock with the satellite" came Betty's voice.Henry took the controls. He expertly manouvered the spacecraft into the docking station, until Jenny spat some chewing gum at him and he lost his aim. Apparently, cillit bang, chewing gum and saliva cause a small electronic storm within one's brain, causing them to spit chewing gum at people. Henry tried again. It worked.

* * * *

As the three entered that space station, they noticed how white it was. very white. Imagine paris hilton's teeth, then make them whiter, then shine a white laser in your eyes. that white.Will ran towards the control panel, holding the srewdriver. As he opened the fuse box, he removed the penis-shaped screwdriver from the set and prepared to fix the satellite. Then he fixed it. He hit the box again and again with the "dick-driver" as Jenny had named it. There was a hum. The space station was alive. Suddenly, a strange figure appeared around the corner. It was a resusitation (spelling?) dummy, called anamatronic anne! "Every day, a person is brought back to life through mouth to mouth" said Anne "And I'm bloody well getting bored of it. I want to die!" So Henry wheeled her into the airlock and opened it. She died.

Shindiggery 3 and a half

2008-10-28T07:51:00.000-07:00

I know that the 1...2....20 million people out there who read my blog really give a toss about the events elsewhere in the universe, so I will explain, in a little bite-sized chunk of bullcrap about the mysterious appearance of the screwdriver set in the rocket.
So...In south France, a dog ran into an office. He shouldn't have been there, so the people in the office chased him. When the dog was out side, he sat down on an onion. This hurt. A lot. So the dog ran around screaming. While a small french man was about to fart in the dog's general direction, a woman in england knocked over a desk lap. The onion turned into a screwdriver, shot out of the dogs arse and disappeared, materialising back inside the spaceship.

Shindiggery 3

2008-10-28T07:48:00.000-07:00

It was a chavvy alien who appeared to called Vinny! "alien creature detected." said the alien creature detector siren.
"The alien creature detector siren is going off!" shouted Henry
"Jenny, the alien creature detector siren is going off!" shouted will
"This is mission control" said Betty "I'm detecting the alien creature detector siren going off." There was a whoosh from the radio "Betty, I think were losing you!" called Will
"No, its not that, signals are at 100%" replied Betty.
"Where are you?"
"By the side of the M25, the car broke down and you went off without me. Anyway, you've left your screwdriver and I was going to bring it to you, but I'm sure you have one. oh,crike."
"We need to get to the satellite to listen in to Gordon's conversation and find out the abort code. Without that screwdriver, we'll never fix it." Said Henry.
"Why, is it broken?" asked Jenny.
"Yes."
"uuggghhh.... Can I come in please, I'm outside of your 'spacecraft'" came Vinnie's voice
"Why should we let you in?"
"Because I have these!" It was a set of screwdrivers, containing the exact same one we needed."I just popped down Tesco 'spress 'n Grabbed em innit."
"Shut up." said Henry, and electrocuted the strange creature using the handy tazer Will had built into the windscreen wiper. Due to an incident in France involving an onion, a dog and a rather small desk lamp, the screwdriver set appeared in a puff of convenience, through a gap in the space-time continuum/plot. Read shindiggery 3 and a half to find out about this incident.

Shindiggery 2

2008-10-28T07:47:00.000-07:00

Henry, jenny and Will were in the rocket. A voice crackled over the radio. "This is mission control. Yes, Betty, from Dartford". It was Henry's auntie Betty, from Dartford. "launch in 3,2,1 Blast off".
"that was rather unspectacular." said Henry.
"I agree" agreed Will
"who's dropped one?" Questioned Jenny.
"It's nature Jenny. Just like this". Half of America collapsed into the sea due to the golbal warming from Henry's fart. but no one cared. The rocket was now in space. Henry began to sing a rather annoying song about Grunt Futtock's amazing musical Hobgoblins, and Jenny passed out every few minutes. We won't go into what will was doing. A flash of beige flew past the window. Henry looked up. "Was that... Burberry?" he asked nervously. Then, the hideous creature rose up toward the window. "'Ave it ma homies, word up to all ma family in prison innit!"Henry threw up.
"It's a..... Space chav!!!".....

Shindiggery 1

2008-10-28T07:43:00.000-07:00

Revel in the insanity (copied across from my bebo)

The earth is in crisis. A whopping great missile is about to be fired from a satellite that someone put in space, and will destroy the whole world. The only people with the abort codes are Gordon Brown and his minion, Ken Livingstone. The Orpington council has decided to fight this, using state of the art technology, a hacksaw, a squirrel and a lawyer. The have decided to fire a rocket up to the Orpington satellite and use it to listen in to Gordon Brown's conversation. Unfortunately, Orpington's rocket is broken, so the local MP asks the US to borrow one of theirs. America says no. Then, a boy conveniently enough named Will remembers that he was building one in his back garden a few years ago. As far as he knows, it works. He offers it to service on the condition that he goes on the trip and gets to wear a jazzy uniform, and that there will be lots of fire. Orpington agrees, so Will is shoved on the focket with his friends Henry and Jenny...

Do not feed the cretins.

2008-10-27T13:57:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog. Here you will find small snippets of my life, the story of my ongoing quest for a theremin, my epic story "Shindiggery" and probably a few other oddities that you could have done without. Keep your hands and feet inside the browser at all times, play responisbly and always exercise modulation.