Auditory Canvas

Thank you

I would like to say thank you to all that contributed to the Fabric of Life Kickstarter project, without you, it wouldn’t have been possible.

Sincere thanks to:

Art, Matt, Ken, Charlie, Nesha, Max, Sarah, Andy, Tina, Kristen, Darren, Raja, Nico, Barbara, Timothy, Aaron, Gemini, Matt, Joshua, LaNae, Peter, C Merry, Mikosuave, Kieron, Devin, Pyrolator, Visinin, Pascal, Niklas, Halcyon, Andrew, Griffin Crafts, Mr. Coco, Aaron, Blacksunshine, Kendra, Shone, Georgette, and everyone else that was kind enough to believe in, and support the project.

You’re all amazing! Thank you so very much.

David.

Thank you to @gcrush for an awesome blog over at bohocrush

My amazing roomate Georgette (@gcrush), just posted an awesome blog post about my album, shows, and music over at bohocrush.com, that had tears welling up in my eyes…..

You can read it here: http://bohocrush.com/blog/2010/04/auditory-canvas-fabric-of-life-cd-release-party-saturday-april-17th-at-the-treehouse-lounge-bollocks-plus-more-info/

Album finished….coming soon

I haven’t posted much lately, but there’s been a good reason for it, I have been busy focussing on finishing my long awaited album….. I’m pleased to say it’s finished. All that’s left is to get the tracks mastered, sort out the play order, and finish the artwork.

It will have a full worldwide CD and digital release some time later this year, hopefully Autumn providing everything gets finished in time. I’ll post another update on it’s pending release nearer the time.

I’m pretty excited, most of the album was written in the past year, all new tracks, with only a few previously released favourites being on there too.

More news soon….

10 random facts about me

I love pancakes, especially blueberry ones

I don’t have a favorite color, but I do have a least favorite – purple

My eyes change color frequently – from blue to green to grey

I never watch TV but I love films

I love water – lakes, the sea, rivers, streams

I never learnt to swim

My favorite time of the year is Autumn/fall

My favorite number is 8

I’m left handed, I write without a hook (don’t curl my hand)

I love train journeys

busy busy busy

Today I managed to finally get myself on twitter (www.twitter.com/auditorycanvas), also a plurk profile (www.plurk.com/auditorycanvas), as well as setting up a soundcloud account (www.soundcloud.com/auditory-canvas), not to mention a friendfeed profile too (www.friendfeed.com/auditorycanvas)……

Now I just have to keep them all updated…..oh boy.

monome finally built and complete….

So after originally building the monome kit I ordered in December, after spending many an hour with it and playing a live gig with it in January, I ended up falling in love with it so much I decided to build another one, and combine them to make one big monome…..

After running through several case desing and attempts, I finally finished the end result, which is basically a leather bound tray as the base housing, with a hand crafted piece of MDF for the top plate. Into which i drilled and filed 128 holes for the buttons, then cut 128 holes out of a piece of cream leather to cover it.

The end result is in the pictures below. I’ll post some video of it in action soon.

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Time to update….

It’s been quite a reflective month of January, and as a result I haven’t posted here much, and now I find myself in the middle of February already, and the year flashing past me quicker than ever….

So I need to get back to my music, and remind myself why I do this in the first place, because I love to, because it brings me peace, enjoyment, and expression.

I’ll be posting some updates over the next few weeks, along with new tracks, more free downloads, and other bits and pieces.

It’s snowing….

….that makes me happy….more tracks coming soon

Buy nothing day…..

Did you buy nothing on buy nothing day?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

Burning Man – Reflections

So it’s now been a few weeks since I got back from my second Burning Man festival.

My mind has finally caught back up with reality, and I completely miss being there.

Not because of the crazy parties, not for looking up from the DJ booth to see a sea of smiling, dancing, happy people, not for the freedom of being out of touch with the rest of the world, neither because of waking up to music, sun, and crazy people expressing themselves everywhere the moment you step out of your RV, but simply because of the way people interact with each other and treat each other.

Before my first Burning Man people would tell me it was a life changing event, something I would politely shrug off as hippy talk, thinking it’s just a festival, but as soon as I experienced it I was overwhelmed with emotions, thoughts and feelings I would struggle to put into words even now.

It really is life changing because it reminds you what life is all about, expressing your inner self without fear of persecution, interacting with strangers from all over the world who treat you as a friend, as an equal, sharing, giving, and receiving, and letting your guard and defenses down.

Ignorant glances away are replaced by welcomes, handshakes replaced by hugs, frowns replaced by smiles, and stresses replaced with positive and creative energy.

Even though I had anxiously waited to return all year, I didn’t expect the overwhelming warm feeling of being ‘home’ as soon as I stepped foot onto the dirt and filled my lungs with playa dust this year. At that moment i fully understood the words of the people at the gate when they said ‘welcome home’.

Coming back from a life less ordinary for a week to what we call home is a somewhat depressing experience, and at that point you start to see what’s wrong with the world. People too wrapped up in their own stresses and woes to care about others, ignorance and selfishness ruling the day, people battling and arguing over things that really shouldn’t matter, and people being rude, bitter and defensive.

And then you slowly get bogged down in the stresses and tolls of reality, and you slowly forget the new energy and intentions you returned with, until you look at photos from the week, and replay memories in your mind, and you realise that most people haven’t seen the beautiful side of humanity that you experienced for the week, and it helps you tolerate the shit from the ignorant, selfish ones…..for a while.

We all need to change the way we interact with each other in this world. It doesn’t have to be this way, it’s only our blindness and apathy that stops us from making it a better world to live in.

Every action has a reaction.