Great news. The full series of The Tone Generation is now available to download in MP3 format or as a podcast. The series has come to an end now and it was a real pleasure to work with Ian Helliwell putting each episode together. A mixture of fun and education as I discovered a huge amount of music I’d never had the opportunity to listen to before.
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As we prepare for the broadcast of the final Tone Generation episode on Resonance FM tomorrow at 19.30 GMT I am still unable to upload show 9 and it looks like I am going to have problems getting the final show available for online listeners. Odeo are still having technical problems and not offering any kind of explanation as to why. If anyone does know whats going on please feel free to let me know. The end of the series has been a bit bumpy on the scheduling side with Resonance broadcasting the wrong show and then celebrating their birthday and changing their Friday evening line up. This means that there has been a 2 week gap in new shows being available and the Odeo technical problem is only going to increase the wait for online listeners. Please hang in there as the last two shows are well worth checking out. We will probably take a little break once the series is over and then come back with something in the Autumn. In the meantime shows 1 through 8 are available here. UPDATE - I have now had a chance to speak with Eric at Odeo. He explained that they are currently migrating all of their shows to a new system and this has caused the problems that have stopped us getting the final shows online. I had expected it to be sorted by now but I’m sad to say I still can’t get shows 9 and 10 online. Also apologies to podcast subscribers who have had duplicate shows downloaded. I imagine this was caused by Odeo’s migration procedure.
This show is packed and to be honest we couldn’t even scratch the surface. I know Ian has enough material to do a whole series on American composers. Who knows? Maybe we might just do that! Thanks for your patience in waiting on this latest episode and of course part 9 will go live tomorrow. Just as soon as Odeo sort their problems out. I have spent all weekend trying to upload the latest show and I’m still getting error and invalid file messages. I hope that come Monday the Odeo team will fix what ever is causing the problem. Thank you for your patience. UPDATE - Apparently Odeo are aware of the problem, caused by fixing a related issue with uploads. No idea how long it will take to sort but I am keeping my fingers crosses. USA is a damned good show too! in the Noisy Matchbox/simonsound studio. Can’t say that much about this project but it launches next week so we’ll spill the beans then. It was a lot of fun. Preparation gathers pace for the Welcome to Mars live performance at Interesting 2008 in June. Find out more here and see the video.
So what about simonsound? Well it will continue to exist as an outlet for the less commercial work I like to be involved in such as The Tone Generation, Welcome to Mars and the upcoming SAN Expo electronic ensemble. These projects are equally important because they feed into my commercial work, keeping it fresh and original. There is also the simonsound album that is nearing completion and I’ll use this website to keep you updated as the release date nears. There may well be some crossover with the Noisy Matchbox website and I’ll no doubt be posting about what we are up to here.
Next weeks show focusses on Italy and is broadcast on Resonance FM at 19.30 GMT. Podcast and download will be available shortly after.
You can find out more about Expo 67 at Ian’s web site and lots of Tristram coverage here. Tristram was an experimental composer who worked at EMS studio co-designing the legendary VCS3 (Putney) synthesizer. He wrote music for films including Quatermass and the Pit, The Ladykillers and composed music for early Dr.Who episodes. He composed all of the music for the British Pavilion at Expo 67 and you can hear lots of this in our montage. He was a true pioneer creating fantastic sounds using hand built equipment left over from WWII. His music is stunning, sometimes challenging but always original and his experimentation paved the way for the current electronic music scene. |
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