You’re given the opportunity to spend 1 year living in a cabin on a mountainside, alone.
Assuming your basic needs are provided for,
you can also choose a total of 5 items from among the following categories:
Books, Records, Musical Instruments (there is power and a turntable 
)
What would you take?
5 from each or 5 total?
Good question.
5 total
(not 15) 
Take Octatrack and be done with it. 
Given the luxury of five choices, and taking at least one from each category:
Record - Tilt by Scott Walker
Book - The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (always kept starting to read it)
Instruments - Octatrack, Matriarch, Prophet 6
Might replace one of the synths with a laptop or piano but somehow those feel like pushing it.
So when are we leaving?
Is there a sound system in this cabin? Cuz, if so- 2 OT’s, MnM, AH and Computer running Bitwig.
OT
Upright piano (if transport allows, otherwise nylon string acoustic guitar)
A good mic
Metallica - S&M (for the drunken nights)
David Byrne - How Music Works (I’ve had this for years but still haven’t read it)
Record: the wiggles
Book: green eggs and ham
Instrument: kalimba, conga, kazoo
It took me the best part of 3 years to read the 3 volumes of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ , well worth it though, both gruelling and life-affirming at the same time.
ah yes, the record player comes with an amplifier with a line-in
I’ve had enough wiggles for 4 years to allow for the ear-worms to take care of this one, only this morning whilst grating some apple for the kids I found myself singing “Fruit salad, yummy yummy”
OT + field recorder + DN + guitar + my Adam A8X
Harari’s Sapiens or a book on medicinal herbs and mushrooms.
AFX’s Syro
Guitar
Camera
Audio Recorder (Mixpre Zoom ie)
Effects board
Journal / Laptop
my basic need is to leave my life with others. we are not made to be alone!
Books:
Necronomicon - The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft.
Jerusalem - Alan Moore
Instruments:
Octatrack
Lyra 8
Record:
NTS sessions - Autechre
indeed!
You mean the opposite, right?
Oh yes, indeed : I’d rather get blank paper and pens!!
Music gear:
Contact mic
DOD death metal pedal
Octatrack
Good headphones
Book: gravity’s rainbow by thomas pynchon
So, joining in then…
Book:
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (never read it, but I appreciate having the archetypes awakened)
Music: ‘And their refinement of the Decline’ by Stars of The Lid
Instruments:
Octatrack
Field Recorder
Kalimba
Fun…
Book… that’s tough, but if just choosing one i think Lord of the Rings, a combination of something comforting and familiar, but deep enough to re-read 2 or 3 times in the year.
Record, Sylva by Snarky Puppy/Metropole Orkeste… some fantastic solos, some lovely moog playing, and a piano solo i could listen to forever.
Instruments - Ensoniq EPS and Zoom H5. That plus sampling the album above/whatevers laying around, along with the EPS sequencer and its expressive polyphonic aftertouch keybed is probably enough to occupy me musically for a whole year.
MacBook Pro
iPhone
Donald Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming
Octatrack
Manuel Göttsching E2E4