1 Year in solitary retreat (A variation on Desert Island Discs)

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#61

I throw another couple of logs on the fire. Come after the storm has eased :slight_smile:

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#62

Thank you. I forgot on my list…Pink Floyd’s Wish you were here and Louis Armstrong’s Wonderful World.

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#63

If I had to choose from current items

  1. field recorder
  2. DT
  3. A4
  4. Piano
  5. Book to learn Piano
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#64
  1. OT
  2. microphone/w cable
  3. Zoia
  4. guitar/w cable
  5. Neil Young Archives Vol. 2
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#65

Assuming there is no internet I would probably take:

A piano
A modular shared system
An octatrack (am I allowed the manual as a freebie?)
A book teaching the piano
Some pens and paper

I would then spend the year learning the instruments and trying to recreate my favourite songs - many of which I can recall whatever-the-sonic-equivalent-of-photographically is.

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#67

You can always use the Piano as firewood when the logs run out :slight_smile:

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#68

Interesting thread. I just definitely miss some sports-related stuff.

  1. a boxing bag,
  2. a fire bowl, or maybe a skipping rope instead,
  3. a large PA System (I hope that counts as one),
  4. Octatrack AE,
  5. a microphone.

Edit: I’d count some friends, family, or other mates as a ‚basic need‘…

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#69
  1. Susumu Yokota, Acid Mt. Fuji (1994)
  2. Digitone
  3. AKG K-371
  4. Whitehead, Process and Reality (1929)…
  5. … and some ADVIL.
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#70

headphones
dynamic mic
field recorder
sp404sx
drum

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#71

Any King Tubby record
laptop, OT,
David Toop : Exotica
and The Bible

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#72

The Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy on BBC shortwave Radio on Wednesdays or Thursday afternoons was the highlight of my teenager years during school break back home.

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#73

Album: Lord Finesse / The art of digging Blue note (for sampling)https://www.mixcloud.com/SoulCoolRecords/lord-finesse-art-of-diggin-blue-note-state-of-mind/

isla S2400 (don’t own one so perfect to figure out in 1 year
Panart Hang (good reason to buy one)
Book: how to instantly reincarnate as Hugh Hefner and the art of beaming play bunnies inside your cabin by unknown author (tired of social distancing and my wife isn’t watching)

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#74
#75

I’m contemplating on trying this for 2 weeks in the fall, going to my cabin for 2 weeks with enough food & water and no way of leaving. I’d get a ride there and then get picked up after 2 weeks. Bring my home studio with me & try to make an album or two. I’d bring more than 5 items, basically all of my pedals, synths and computer though, more like 50 items rather than 5 :smiley:

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