About

JJ, Nickie & Niall

Thanks for checking this out.

My name is James, I’m a Londoner now living in Guildford. I have a wonderful 12 year old boy, Niall, and a lovely partner in 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 8, Max for Live, Reaktor 5.5, FabFilter Timeless and the recently purchased Omnisphere are my main tools. I also make use a handful of free VSTi plug-ins also.

I now have a Zoom H4n and I have taken to making instruments using Simpler in Live, using found sounds.

Most of what I a currently creating is made on a HP G62 105A laptop running Windows 7. A core i3 processor, 3Gb 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, which is used when Omnisphere is required, but my day work has the run of that generally.

Feedback would be most welcome.

This is not really a commercial project, although I am open to small donations or payments to allow me to continue making regular fee music for all. So 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 and where possible, offer some sort of appropriate donation/payment, based on your project’s budget, should you go on to use anything.

I would love to see it used in such a way.