Wednesday 20 March 2024

Sunday 4 February 2024

When live recordings are over engineered

 If you look back at old TV shows from the 60’s and 70’s that had “live” musical performances, the musicians were often lip synching to a recorded track. By the 80’s and 90’s, this was considered tacky and fake.

It looks however, like we’re getting back to that sort of thing with tools like auto tune and pitch correction being used in live performances.

This video analyses a classic song recently recorded love and looks at the use of these tools,  I hope you find it interesting.



Tuesday 16 January 2024

Squirrel Parkour

 I’m sure a lot of you are already fans of Mark Rober. His Squirrel Ninja Warrior Course is legendary. This video comes as a recommendation from Kenna:



Monday 15 January 2024

Blowing out a fire with sound

 This is a great YouTube channel. He is very good at making abstract concepts clear and understandable. He’s also good at creating experiments to test ideas using simple tools and equipment. Always a worthwhile watch:



The Hat Historian

These are the sorts of finds that give me hope for the Internet…