The Spaces Between
Setting the sounds and pictures of a trip to Thailand in 2012 to some chilled music.
Birds
Covering a wonderful song by Dominique Fils-Aimé, a piece rich with harmony, paper percussion and a soulful bassline.
Returning Home
For my brother, Luke
Kalimantan dusk walk
A short moment of a walk at dusk captured and repeated under ambling kalimba and vintage scratches and pops from an old empty record player held up on a bed of interfering bass.
My True Ambition
16 years ago, a view to the future.
Truthfully, the title is wrong. There isn’t just one ambition I’ve got for the future, there is actually over 10! The title should be: ‘My true Ambitions’. If I were to write an essay on each of the things I want to do in the future, it would be so long and boring you wouldn’t want to read it. So I’ll just write about a few of the main things I want to do.
I really like playing on the computer, especially using flash. I think the main good thing about flash is that it’s easy to use and I can make websites and games without my dads help. – He doesn’t have a clue how to use it so even if he tried, he wouldn’t be much help. – My dad runs a busyness up on the 4th floor of our house, – which I think is quite handy because I can walk up and see him at any time I like – we also have over twenty computers for all my dads staff to work on. When I’m older, I plan to work for my dad by making lots of games for my dads websites. Although I’m not that good, over the years I will get better at it and be able to do more complicated games. I am making a website right now, its called: www.spacegames.co.uk. It has got over 6 different types of games on it and access to many other websites made by me. (of course, I haven’t go around to making them yet, but it will only be a matter of time before I start.) I am also thinking of taking over my dads busyness, but that is a long way away yet and my dad said to stop thinking about the future and concentrate on my present life as a 10-year old.
My other favorite hobby is drawing in great detail. I consider myself to have an artistic brain. I also quite enjoy drawing modern art as I have a great imagination and can exaggerate the things I draw so far it looks as if they were from another planet! My favorite type of paint is either watercolor or oil paints. They are both good if you like to put in vanishing-points and shadows. The best painting I ever did, was one of a dirt path going in-between a couple of trees. It looks as though it were a window to another world if you look at it from far away!
The only watercolor paint-set I have is quite a big one, even though most of the paint from all the tubes is gone. The other good thing about being able to draw so well is that I can draw a picture and scan it into the computer. I can then use it as a background for my movies and games on flash. I really have to keep my artistic skills going for all my life!!
Another thing that would help me with flash is music. I can record things on my keyboard, transport them across to the computer and load the onto my games. In the website I’m making, it would be essential to have music or it would get very boring! Its also helpful to tell you whether or not you lost. My mum says to keep the musical capability inside me keep going, (in other words: keep on playing a musical instrument.)
In Our Time
An improvisation on two pianos and percussion assisted by loops and live manipulated effects through Ableton. The improvisation then had video clips set to it that were captured on a short walk from home to Reading town centre and back.
Listen to the entire piece on Mixcloud.
To Rotonpur
There are no fields of cattle, there are just cattle. Everywhere. Roaming the streets and gardens, sat in front of butchers and vegetable markets.
A dusty bookcase stood just inside Solomon’s parent’s house with books in Bangla strewn across the shelves. Leafing through I found a rare few texts in English: ‘One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back’ by V. I. Lenin, missing a cover and inscribed within to Mr James David Ghosh; ‘Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Terror’ chewed on one edge by a wood bug; an old copy of ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe which I read for the nth time during our stay there; and a large volume containing the Customs Act, 1969, in Bengali and English