mid-50s. Thought dumping and sharing making music & games for a hobby; LGBTQ+ stuff; & sometimes about libraries. Into late 1970s & early 1980s music, TV & film (especially fantasy stuff & kids TV), games, comics etc. My thoughts ramble a lot. T*BQ gender wiggler wobbler. They/them.
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Last Notes npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Another magic #Bonkwave release party. So many great tracks, and a lovely & fun live chat at the same time. Well done to all who played a part in pulling it together. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle #BonkWave release party for disc 1 of the Four Seasons of Bonk Wave - Winter Wonderbonk compilation this Sunday at 9pm GMT. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Looking forward to releasing a collaboration hopefully by the end of the week - a magical improvisation on a reworked version of an Ice Line Drift track. I love it. :) #fedimusic npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle One of the things I've wanted to do for a while is cover versions of a few of my fave songs. Started working on one over the weekend. It's ended up not being anything like the original song and not like I originally planned it. Still needs some work, but there's a droney wonkyness I like about it already. It might make fans of the band shudder, but hey ho there you go. #fedimusic npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Are there any uk retro computing users / collectors out there who would be interested in about 10 Research Machines manuals from around 1980 - things like Hitch hikers guide to Logo, Extended Basic v5, hi resolution graphics, 380z system for varitext? Happy to send them to anyone for the price of postage. #retrocomputing #retrocomputers npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle If making music with samples is your thing, the #Bonkwave sample challenge is running as part of the Winter Wonderbonk submission too. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Submitted my track for the upcoming Winter Wonderbonk open call. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…egn4 Hope you are feeling better. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…vf8x @nprofile…egn4 On the rare occasion I've been asked to do a remix, I tend to do the chopping it up thing but keeping lots of the original and adding effects. I like it when a remix is obviously different from the original, but not so far removed there's not much left of the original. I assume if someone's asked me, they want me to put some of my musical voice in there too. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I've released the re-recorded versions of the tracks I created for my @nprofile…33mf music stream last month. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…nekg Love the mood of this track. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Such a great, mellow, eerie, mystical, cosmic music stream from @nprofile…54eq over on @nprofile…g9dr tonight. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Really happy with how my facial electrolysis is going after 7 hours of treatment - even just growing out the stubble for a couple of days I can see a lot fewer darker patches. Need to remember to drink less coffee and more water before the next one, and apply the numbing cream well in advance of the session. It was a bit of an "oofyah!" at times during the session this week. There are definitely more sensitive parts on my face than others, but making sure I do the preparation helps reduce that. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle This is the general (flails arms wildly) attitude/ethos/mood I get from so many Indie Beat TV videos. So much "Indie, I'll do what I like mischief." npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Another great #bonkwave release party tonight - this time focusing on the challenge of creating tracks using a handful of samples at their core. Amazed by the variety of music created with them. Such a fun chatroom too, as ever. Lovely bonkwave bunch of people. You can listen to the release here (Autumn Waves, part 3), along with all the other Bonkwave releases https://music.bonkwave.org/ npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle This video premiered on Indie Beat TV earlier. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…s50v I loved how different your tracks are to each other. Both great, and I'm especially into the narrative and synth mood of I've been deleting your texts. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Part 1 of the latest #Bonkwave compilation, Autumn Waves, releases this Friday (10th April) at 8pm UTC. 🎉 🥳 npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle On a Trans Day of Visibility panel in work later. Nervous, but also glad of the opportunity to highlight personal positives and address the negative stuff. Mastodon is a positive - trans people and allies drifting through my Mastodon timeline is a good thing. #tdov npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Submitted my track for the #Bonkwave Autumn sample challenge. Managed to pull it together in a day. (surprised face) npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I do doubt what I create (music, games, random creative stuff) is good or of interest to anyone else ALL OF THE TIME! But what I've realised over the past few years that if you like it yourself, there is a good chance someone else will too. It may not be loads of people, but to me that doesn't matter. If 1 person likes 1 song or game or whatever I create and lets me know or downloads it, or whatever, that really makes my day. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I wrote this spoof track (Festive playlists) over a decade ago as a homage to The Stranglers No More Heroes, and also as a Chrustmas song - a less than jolly holly take on the festive season.* It was fun trying to get something like a Stranglers type song sound & style together. I say like, it's not The Stranglers. It's an Ash Noodle pastiche. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle One of the ambient melodic electronic tracks from the First Frost EP. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…m8hk Seems appropriate on such a chilly day as today to share my First Frost EP. Now streaming free on bandwagon.fm npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Seems appropriate on such a chilly day as today to share my First Frost EP. Now streaming free on bandwagon.fm npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle The World Of The Dark Crystal documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-f54lkXhbQ&t=2s - love this film. #fantasy #puppets #films npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Listening to the beautiful Holy Grail https://mirlo.space/kydia/release/holy-grail by @nprofile…vdcr (via NHAM station on https://theindiebeat.fm/nham ) #fedimusic npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…0nz2 That was a great set. :) Really enjoyed how you put it all together. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…0nz2 You're the 2nd Fedi person I've heard say that recently. :) If this is a trend, I might be able to pick one up cheap 2nd hand. :D @nprofile…mj9a npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…l25h @nprofile…4p29 Naive question. Is this based on the original Wasp synth? npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Nothing by sideSister @nprofile…udrj is such a magic song. :) And the whole album is great too. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle So many great tracks on disc 1 of the new Bonkwave release. Loved being part of it again. :) npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h It's interesting that some got rejected. Mine have varied in levels in the past. I use Landr, and they've been okay, but I know they also have mastering services too, so I wonder if they do anything to get the levels right before distributing them?!?!? npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h I did try Ozone izotope, but with songs that had a lot going on it my PC struggled - it isn't that powerful. And on some songs when it did work, it just wasn't working as I expected it to. I do like the idea of it though, and their Neutron app has really helped me to improve my tracks. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Arg!one Random Ramshackle DIY Tape https://ashnoodle.bandcamp.com/album/arg-one-random-ramshackle-diy-tape-giveaway-2025-birthday-edition npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I'm curious about how fediverse hobby /amateur / DIY musicians etc master their music. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Trying to do more creative stuff away from the screen. Had fun doodling a bit. This started off as spiral lines, as most of my doodles do (cock a doodles do?!?). Might end up doing some hand drawn music cover art for a few of my tapes. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle A few more instrumental music tracks I've been enjoying on Bandcamp , but discovered most of them via Mastodon, theindiebeat.fm , and Bandwagon.fm. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h @nprofile…lfva @nprofile…h4zl Thanks Stan. I appreciate that. :) npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Quite a lot of the music I've bought on Bandcamp over the past few weeks has been a slight step away from my synthpop interests. I suppose it's more singer songwriter focused. Been really enjoying Ben Beltran, Babu Menos @nprofile…yk3s , Ferocious Designs, Sknob @nprofile…4nzp , Stan Stewart @nprofile…9z8h , Sockpuppet, and Leigh Harrison's solo releases @nprofile…udrj . All very different - from lo-fi to polished production. And a lot of the time I'm drawn to the character of the singer's voices and the tune. And their songs make me smile. If you're looking for songs with a meaning or story, hunt them out on Bandcamp or one of your fave Fedi music streaming sites, and have a listen to them. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Mulling over the idea of some kind of abstract collagey musical Negativland type thingy. I've got a few sample based loop pieces and abstract free form doo-dads almost finished, but without a home. Maybe building something out of them would work. #fedimusic npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…yyjp Yeah. Lots of great tracks. :) npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Love the spring, but my hayfever has been full-on this week. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…x8nv I love the sentiment and mellowness of this. :) Making me think about writing something from a thankful perspective. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Distracted by de-essing on voices in the trailer for the new Bergerac. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h I only started doing this about 5/6 years ago. Partly because I previously had a habit of going through endless instrument/tools options and hardly getting any music finished. Partly because I realised that I was gravitating to a few of the same elements anyway when I was creating certain styles of music, and decided that it might be better to just restrict myself to subsets of those tools/instruments and release them as different band/project names. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h The way I've done this is restricting myself to specific tools, virtual instruments (most with limited sound creation options) and styles for different projects. And for effects I often re-use saved favourites and tweak to fit a project. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @nprofile…9z8h I just signed up to partially test their distribution, but I've not been able to get past the creating a new artist profile on Apple. It just won't let me do it. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Just watched We are the best- Swedish film about three 13 year old girls in 1982 forming a punk band. Loved it. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle My trial of Neutron 4 elements finished and I went to buy it, but according to my account I've already got it for free and authorised. Not sure why. Maybe because 5 is out now. But anyway, nice surprise. :) npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I made this Bitsy game a few years ago - inspired by the folklore of keeping the lights of winter burning for protection & a way of welcoming back the ancestors. Definitely inspired by Spectrum visuals too. https://ashg.itch.io/midwinter-spirits #ScreenshotSaturday #retro #indiegamedev #WinterFolklore npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Been having a look at the visual wave representation of songs I'm really into from the early 1980s. Initially I was curious about how they compared to modern music masters, and if there's was anything I could learn from just the waves alone. Also to see how my own songs compared. Anyway, most weren't as squashed as modern tracks. I had a look at OMD's Sealand. I knew the reverb kick was loud, but I was really surprised by how much visually "louder" it is than everything else. It's an impressive wave visualisation! :D The kick only really gets hidden (but not really) when the strings come in after a couple of minutes. Anyway, what I've realised looking at the waves from various songs is that I can sort of recognise why the waveforms look like they do because I know how the songs feel after listening to them 100s of times. And maybe this will help me develop my own mixes in some way. #fediMusician #synthpop #music #1980s npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @npub1gzd…wfsq Hi. I was looking for notes on your site about Psychedelic Ghost Stories. I could see them in the search results, but couldn't click on them. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @npub10cs…5prq Thank you. :) This afternoon was fun and we are out dancing later. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle After starting to set up a single Bandcamp page for all my music last week because the audio player I was using on itch.io was misbehaving and a faff, I discovered blamscamp for itch which seems more straightforward, and now I am back to dithering again about where to share all my music. 😆 npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Instead of Bandcamp how about Bangcamp, where we upload our fringes. Currently streaming... a bit gingery honey blonde horseshoe bangs that have decided they want to be almost wavy curtain bangs instead. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle After fiddling with the sounds on the tracks on & off for about 8 months I think I've got another Ice Line Drift EP close to release - needed to get the 3 released together as they're part of the same idea. Although to be fair, I am the only 1 who cares about that. :D They're Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis inspired, but have a bit more of an organic sound than previous tracks. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle @npub10cs…5prq No problem. :) Distrokid looks useful in itself all round. I ended up creating a profile page ony own distribution service site - which I'd not realised I could do. npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle Am I right in thinking that you have to add links manually to an Odesli page, and (unlike Songwhip) it doesn't allow you to just put in an artist link from a profile and it pulls everything together automatically from a load of different sites? npub1r4pu4jc0m8pxfwywrdjjpas5k2xpuqpgr57z4flj2m7pyh493rdqg852n0 Ash Noodle I got the notification about Songwhip free service being removed, but hadn't realised the paid service was going too. The FAQ I just boosted isn't visible from the FAQ page, so that paid service info wasn't clear. What a shame - it was a really useful service & very low effort in terms of music link aggregation and sharing. Wonder if it got bought out? Anyway, I'll need to find another option.
