G2HW was my father's amateur radio call sign. He died in May 2012, and I've been working on this track on and off since then. It's based on G2HW in morse, plus some other sounds which hopefully invoke short wave radio and his other big passion, steam engines. Hopefully it doesn't sound like a rip-off of Kraftwerk's Radioactivity and Trans-Europe Express - I've been trying to avoid getting too close to those classics!

g2hw

More NanoStudio doodlings, this time involving fewer presets and more of my own sounds, plus a "guitar" part played using iFretless Guitar as a controller for a sound in NanoStudio using virtual MIDI.

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More experimentation with Audiobus apps and Multitrack DAW on an iPad.

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Yet more iPad noodlings using Audiobus enabled apps recorded into Multitrack DAW.

Newdrones

Reaction to the tragic events in Paris on 13/11/2015

lumiere

This has been lurking for over 3 years unfinished. Now finished, at last.
The last track I did at my old house, probably the last I'll do with NanoStudio 1.
Recorded on a sunny day in my old back garden, as an experiment to see what would happen starting with a basic drum pattern based on Faust's "It's a rainy day, sunshine girl". Hence the title!

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Second lockdown track, created using iPad apps only, in April 2020.

Third lockdown track. A comforting sound bath for my partner, when we’re separated by lockdown rules.
iPad apps only, late 2020. First use of Mononoke and Gauss.

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