4/10/2009

Things are musically 'quiet' at the moment, so this weekend I made a few updates to the site.

If you click around the music pages you'll notice that some of them, such as the recent Sounds of Dunedin set, are now sporting the fancy SoundCloud player. I'm trying this out as a more proactive way to spread my sound, to the 'cloud' and beyond. If you're feeling adventurous, click on the buttons on the right-hand-side of the player. One of them gives you the code to embed the player into your own webpage or blog, if you feel so inclined.

If you don't see the player on some pages, it will either be because I've hit my monthly upload limit (so that track/set is not up on SoundCloud yet), or because you don't have Flash player 9+ installed (or JavaScript enabled).

If you're curious to know what's available via the cloud, head on over to my SoundCloud page. If you're feeling vocal, you can also add timed comments to tracks on that site. I'd love to hear what you like / don't like about my music!

The other thing I did in the weekend was recode the site JavaScript to use the BBC's Glow library. Glow promises to be a more end-user-friendly way of implementing JavaScript, as it aims to provide better cross-browser support than some of the other, more well-known, libraries. If you get nasty JavaScript errors while browsing the site, let me know and if it's a problem with Glow I'll pass that feedback on to the BBC developers.

As for creating some NEW music.... well that's pretty much been on hold for the past 8 months - and believe me when I tell you that I am completely over it and hanging out to make some new stuff!! The latest word is that my current (computerless) situation may change very soon.. so if you're a fan of Panoramica hang in there! - hopefully there's not long to wait now.. :)

Cheers,
Dan