About

JJ, Nickie & Niall

Thanks for checking this out.

My name is James, I’m a Londoner now living in the Somerset Levels. I have a wonderful 12 year old boy, Niall, and a lovely girlfriend Nickie.  I am a web producer by day and ambienteer by night.

Think of this as an abstract audio diary.

Much of the output is incomplete as a work as such, but it allows me a way of expressing my current mood & outlook. The hope is that amongst the things I come up with, there will be something that you’ll enjoy. Some of it will not be great, but that’s the interesting thing about this idea, you’ll know when a creative block has set in ;).

Ableton Live and Reaktor are my main tools. A while back I had a chance to try out Omnisphere, but my set-up can’t really cope with it yet, but it’s an awesome VSTi. I have Reason 3, and I use a handful of free VSTi plug-ins also. Recently I have taken to making instruments using Simpler in Live, using found sounds.

Everything is being run on a laptop running XP, T7300, 2Gb RAM, 7200prm drive and I have latency down to about 17ms with the internal sound card and basic USB/Midi cable. An old Novation K-Station is my trusty input device, though something smaller is being saved up for! I do have a desktop PC, but my day work has the run of that, so it plays little part in these pieces.

Feedback would be most welcome.

This is not a commercial project. If you are a filmaker, installation/performance artist etc in need of an unusual sonic backdrop, feel free to experiment with my stuff. All I ask is that you credit me if you go on to use anything. Would love to see it used in such a way.