Mobile phone as a dashcam

We – the collective “we” – are documenting our lives using mobile phones by now, all around the globe, using them for photos, videos, everything. And lately I saw some videos where people used mobile phones instead of action cams, like on bicycles, motorcycles, and in cars. So I thought “Why not?”, and since we all have these devices already, we might as well use them.

So I bought a car holder, an adapter for power, and tried it today. We were driving from one of the big supermarkets in Germany (Aldi) to another (Rewe), which took about 8 minutes, and I’ve used two recent tracks from Wikiloops on which I’ve played the double bass, “Colours“, and “Going down” for the video:

https://www.flickr.com/gp/wjlonien/782b8f

Got another holder for the bicycle as well – and maybe I’ll try that one tomorrow…

As always, thanks for reading, viewing, and listening. And of course thanks to my friends over at the ‘loops as well ๐Ÿ™‚

Didn’t know that I’m on Reverbnation as well…

Just found myself on Tom’s pages there:

Listen to Aaron’s beautiful guitar solo there. So this seems to be my Wikiloops track 146415, together with Haffast’s guitar from #147068 – but without Titus’ keys… and Aaron also had a video of himself playing, also featuring his cat:

Lovely… <3

I’m on more of Tom’s tracks there, here’s one from an album where he featured Shi obviously:

As always, thanks for listening.

About an upcoming virtual meeting

Later today, we’ll have another one of these virtual meetings where everyone sits at home in front of their work notebooks with built-in webcams, speaking into headsets, well I guess most of you will know the experience of that, it has become pretty normal since the last 14 and a half months or so.

What’s not normal about today’s upcoming meeting is that it’s about saying goodbye to 5 colleagues with whom I’ve been working since the last 13 years or so.

Very sad to see everyone go, and the rest of us will follow 3 months later, so all I can do for now is to wish them all luck and all the best for their future.

I’ll miss you, ladies & gents, and it has been an honour and a pleasure working with you all. Thanks for the good time.

Colours

I played on another branch of this track already, and after Oliv corrected my timing in one of his fabulous remixes, I decided to also put out a corrected version further up of the ladder, just to keep it open for further remixes – so here you go, with just OliVBee, Marceys & me in that new version and upload of ‘Colours‘.

Oh, and while exporting my combined bass tracks from Ardour 6.7 to use them in Harrison Mixbus, I saw that the export analysis in 6.7 has a new look – it’s cool I think:

Very nice, and very useful to see that new LUFS analysis section – I love it…

So thanks again to both Oliv and Marc for the fun, to Paul Davis & his crew for developing Ardour (and thus, Mixbus which is based upon it), and thanks to you for listening ๐Ÿ™‚

Colours of Marceys, Pat, & Oliv…

I was preparing to play a bit on this while being drawn into a videochat with Malaysia… anyway, I continued playing a bit on Oliv’s, Marc’s, and Pat’s cool track:

As always, thanks to my friends for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening ๐Ÿ™‚

P.S.: just published a video showing some of these tools I described in my last article, and which I was using for this track:

Thanks for watching, and for listening. And thanks again to my friends both at Wikiloops, and also from the open source world of programmers. We are standing on the shoulders of giants… ๐Ÿ™‚

Edit: got a remix from Oliv who corrected the timing of us all on this track of his:

Merci Oliv – fantastic remix ๐Ÿ™‚

Why don’t you call me?

I’ve made a rough mix of this one lately, but wasn’t really happy with it – so I sat down with it again, and also played a little bass on it. Hope you’ll enjoy:

Again, thanks to tyrece and also to Shi for all the fun, and thanks to you for listening.