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Things are very busy right now - lots of interesting little projects going on. I’m working on a package of branding for an online radio station, creating a guided musical tour for White Night in Brighton & Hove, preparing to release the latest Simonsound single, getting ready for some upcoming lectures at Ravensbourne college and playing with my latest electronic sound module, ‘The Wogglebug’. Enjoy.

Just completed this package of branding and music for Heineken.

Heineken Green Synergy 2009 branding and music by mynoisymatchbox

The Tone Generation has evolved beyond its initial 10 part run for Resonance FM, and as we prepare to make episode 16 available there are plans for many more episodes and even a Tone Generation live show. I’ll keep you posted on the live show but for now get the latest episode here.

Every year Heineken run a huge DJ competition across the Caribbean islands. I have been involved in the Green Synergy DJ competitions for a number of years and one year I was even lucky enough to run music production workshops with the finalists and ‘A Tribe Called Quest’s’ Phife Dawg.

This year I was commissioned to create the branding and music beds that would be used across radio, tv and online to promote the event.  I spent time immersing myself in the latest music of the Caribbean and had a lot of fun exploring the quite different approach to production and mixing. The package is due to go live very soon and I’ll post some clips as soon as I can.

I just found out Australian radio station ABC have commissioned a fourth episode of the radio drama Flickerman. I produced the third episode earlier this year and I am excited to be invited back to produce the latest installment of Cornelius’ adventures. I’ll keep you updated on the schedule for this. I’m equally excited and hopeful that some of the mysteries from earlier episodes might be revealed.

The Flickerman

In yesterdays Guardian radio review page Zoe WIlliams called the interactive flickr radio drama “new and amazing” and went on to describe it as “.. a strange and exhilarating project”. I think most of this comes down to great writing, direction and acting but I’m proud to have played my part in producing and sound designing episode 3.

Read the full review here

Check The Flickerman out at http://www.theflickerman.com/

The Tone Generation series is now back online. Listeners who have been following the series for a while and are subscribed to the old podcast stream will need to re-subscribe to the new stream to continue getting the latest shows automatically. Do that here.  New listeners can subscribe following the same link or if you prefer to download MP3’s go here.

Sorry for the small glitch but hopefully everything should run smoothly from now on. The latest Tone Generation show will go live early next week.

Having had nothing back from Odeo regarding the technical problems we’ve been having we have decided to move to a new hosting service. I am currently in the process of moving the series over to Blip.tv and over the next few days it should all be done. Be patient and you will be rewarded with a brand new episode! Programme 1 is now back up and the rest will follow shortly. I would suggest holding off subscribing to the current Odeo podcast feed until I post the link for the new Blip.tv one.

Thanks for your understanding.

The first 3 episodes of The Flickerman are due to be broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM over the next 3 nights at 8PM. I produced episode 3 and was really excited to be involved in such a well written drama, especially since it has hints of Lost (of which I’m a big fan) in its mysterious twists and turns. If you don’t catch the Resonance broadcasts see the link below to go to the official Flickerman website where you can download the episodes.

Cornelius Zane-Grey is being stalked. He is being photographed. Pictures are appearing on the web for anyone to see. Pictures of him, his loved ones - of his life as it falls apart. Who is doing this to him? And why? The Flickerman is a ground-breaking, cross-platform drama in which the dividing line between the real and the imagined is increasingly hard to distinguish. It unfolds through radio broadcasts, audio downloads, on line movies, blog entries and multiple internet channels. A ground-breaking new radio drama written and directed by Lance Dann. 

The Flickerman website

We are having further problems with our hosting service Odeo which means the first 8 Tone Generation shows are currently unavailable to download. Sorry if you have come to here to listen to the series and been disappointed but please be patient. You can still listen to shows 9 and onwards here.  More positive news is that the next installment of The Tone Generation,  ‘Electronic Music Authors’, is recorded and ready to upload - the only thing stopping me doing this is that I don’t want to upload whilst Odeo have technical problems. Lets hope they sort them out soon. Stay tuned for more news.

UPDATE - Odeo seem to have given up on any kind of customer support. After emailing them twice in the last 10 days I haven’t heard anything back from them. It looks like we will have to find and alternative hosting solution and migrate the series.