Orllewin

A mess of eurorack modules, a Playdate, guitar pedal

The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be | Tractor Beam Can climate resilience and human connection<br> grow from toxic soil?

The first issue of Tractor Beam is live with my new story, “The Flowers Where 580 Used To Be.” I love the way this came together & I wish more #climatefiction had the resources for stuff like this.

Anyway, enjoy my first #soilremediation #solarpunk #romance!

www.tractorbeam.earth/story/the-fl...

My wife and I have tried to hold things together over the last couple of years, with a lot of help from our online friends, but we’re sinking now, literally and figuratively.

If you can help (even just a re-post), we really need it now.

www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

or

ko-fi.com/ccohanlon

🙏

granular synthesis with #16n in #maxmsp

Yes, the BBC Micro port was incredible, as was the intro music. It was slicker than anything else on the system.

Stoodley Pike - Visit Todmorden YouTube video by Todmorden Information for Tourists

Visit #Todmorden youtube.com/shorts/E_Eoh...

GitHub - orllewin/modularplay Contribute to orllewin/modularplay development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've open sourced Modular Play for #playdate. Purchase from itch.io to support future development: github.com/orllewin/mod...

New pedal: Pitch Fork. YouTube video by Öppenlab Yorkshire

New pedal day, Electro Harmonix Pitch Fork. It's absolutely sublime: www.youtube.com/shorts/bdJy-...

I ordered one of these as he's local to me and the price is good: www.parabolicmicrophone.co.uk/I'll post back with results when I get it.

Wind turbine, no wind

Walked up the clough to do some wind turbine geophone recordings only to find them winding down as the sun sets. https://youtu.be/1aeIAtZjd1s?si=U1V_Osfhdx__IGyc

I'd like one too but they're so expensive. It'd be a good project but I'm already doing too much. Do you have any resources for a DIY approach?

overhead view of a clear-shelled cassette tape loop filled with moss

closeup view of a clear-shelled cassette tape loop filled with moss

overhead view of a guitar pedal, synthesizer and cassette player on a wet woodland log

✳️ MOSS TAPE ✳️

° a study of cassette degradation using organic materials. over time, the cassette loop took on a soft, muffled expression.

My patching got so much better when I committed to no crossed patch cords and mastering "#" notation. I strive to make patches read like code. I'm particularly proud of this one, based on R. Luke Dubois' Jitter phase vocoder! Pic 2 is the original @cycling74.bsky.social
#maxmsp #pd #dsp #fft

A Tascam audio recorder full of wires

3 geophones magnetically attached to my metal workshop wall

The Tascam recorder and surrounded chaos

Attempting to record Storm Éowyn

A DIY momentary AB pedal (MAB) with a sticker on with the Orllewin smiley face logo, MAB (the pedal name), Orllewin across the bottom and an old royalty free drawing from a book of a comical character (who was smoking, but I edited the cigarette out).

Pedal stickers arrived from the printer, they look fantastic. I just need to find a spare few hours for soldering to make a small batch, if they sell well I might do a bigger run. MAB = momentary AB. #guitarpedal

"One of the hardest things is knowing when to stop waiting for a return of who you used to be; when to say farewell to the one who could walk better, breathe better, think better. Accepting that there are wounds that do not heal..."

– @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social

Sylphine Soporifera, by Antonina Nowacka 10 track album

Two current favourites, courtesy of Antonina Nowacka:

antoninanowacka.bandcamp.com/album/lamunan

antoninanowacka.bandcamp.com/album/sylphi...

The flying saucer shaped beacon emerging through fog. It does look like a huge UFO.

The beacon in fog again. A saucer shaped array of antenna on the moor

Closer view showing the brick building underneath the circular antenna array

The sign from the road reads: NATS Pole Hill DVOR Navigational Aid In case of an emergency contact 08000 563063 Grid ref: Latitude: 53.743767 Longitude: -2.103328

Pole Hill navigation beacon in thick fog today.

How climate-friendly waterwheels are coming around again | Hydropower | The Guardian From the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland, sustainable source of energy seems to be back in vogue

Waterwheels are back: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/17/how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again #solarpunk

handytraxx play - PORTABLE RECORD PLAYER | KORG (U.K.) Portable vinyl performance, perfected.

I'm opposed to buying new stuff where possible, but the Vestax lineage of these makes buying a pair very tempting: https://www.korg.com/uk/products/dj/handytraxx_play/

A Naim CI 102 surrounded by soldering paraphernalia with a laptop on top of it

A Naim Musu with a monitor on top of it plus a few other bits including a Pi400

A messy desk. Stuff everywhere.

Tempted to post these photos on some audiophile groups, just to give them their daily two minutes hate.

5 bare metal pedal enclosures. With a white cross marked where the centre punch will make the pilot dent/hole for the drill to fit the momentary foot switch.

Mini AB pedal production line. #guitarpedal

Unintended consequences, it's something I always raise in the workplace when some management decision or other is being considered. Not sure this one could have been anticipated though.

*Korg PS-1 - Bluesky doesn't have an edit post option?

A mini guitar pedalboard with a few pedals, notably the MXR Layers which is the central part of my current playing

I have some space on my new (to me) pedalboard, must not start browsing Reverb.... I need some new smaller patch cables, and the Korg PD-1 has a massive jack going into the Layers, need to get a small adapter and hide that underneath. #pedalboard #guitarpedal

An old man, barefoot, in a threadbare sweater, sitting in a threadbare armchair, amid the dilapidated, below-decks clutter of an old canal barge.

Actor, author and seafaring vagabond Sterling Hayden at age 65, aboard his ancient, 100-foot, river barge — and refuge — in Besançon, France.

An unsettling thought: he died five years later, at the age I am now.

[from the 1983 documentary, Pharos of Chaos]

A Max/MSP patch, lots of objects and cables.

I got a looper working in Max/MSP, I'm sure there's many better ways but this is simple and tidy. If you attempt to overdub it unleashes demons. #maxmsp #guitarpedal

It's on my itch account, but it's not been updated for a long time. I use it daily still though

Frozen trees in a Yorkshire clough

Wind turbines in the distance, just visible through the morning mist

It's beautiful this morning. The kids Saturday club has been cancelled though, we're going to drag them up the Clough to see the icicles instead

A large icicle broken off and stood upright in snow

My wife S for scale, some icicles are almost 6ft long

A closeup of loads of icicles on a cliff face

Going to miss this, but not going to miss the reduced school hours (10.25 to 2.30...).