Ah, the Royal Wulff, what a beauty (though such a pain to tie). I guess the brown/gray one was called the Brown Wulff, though I don’t recall those being regularly available, at least here in Cali where the Adams was the ubiquitous grey/brown dry fly back in the day. Thanks for waking up some old memories.I use those little buggers for fishing. They work excellent. Use with a heavy float and a 4-5 foot leader and cast it as far out as you can and then sit and wait. For extra effect I use a modded Royal Wulff fly in mostly brown and gray coloration with the cicada on the hook too. That brings in the 5 pounders+.
@acbarn that's some tasty music and sounds. I use headphones although I can guess as per how that would sound on a big stereo with the imaging and nature sounds.
Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and I’m glad you enjoyed the album!Thank you, @acbarn , what a gorgeous sound world! Listening on my Sennheiser HD 660S, on track 3 at the moment, and I'm not sure if these headphones have ever sounded so expansive before! Very wide and beautiful imaging.
I tied flies for ~12 years steady maybe 3-5 days a week. It was a great hobby. I bought a fly rod and broke it within ~15 minutes... So fly fishing was not my thing. I like casting, float fishing and trolling. Ohh and creek fishing with grasshoppers is a blast too.Ah, the Royal Wulff, what a beauty (though such a pain to tie). I guess the brown/gray one was called the Brown Wulff, though I don’t recall those being regularly available, at least here in Cali where the Adams was the ubiquitous grey/brown dry fly back in the day. Thanks for waking up some old memories.
Nice, good to see. ...No base fishing?I like casting, float fishing and trolling.
Reminds me, bad experience at one place I lived. 8th floor, and one house next door, with some sort of pool - "water feature" or something, had a lot of frogs. If crickets and cicadas can be 90-95 dB, then those frogs must've been well over 100. It was really bad, like when you lie down to sleep.I posted some katydids, cicadas, and crickets I recorded on my front porch maybe like 5 years ago. The recording sounds pretty loud. Well a good sound level meter showed 90-95 db so they can be loud.
That’s a lot of fly tying for not being a fly fisherman!I tied flies for ~12 years steady maybe 3-5 days a week. It was a great hobby. I bought a fly rod and broke it within ~15 minutes... So fly fishing was not my thing. I like casting, float fishing and trolling. Ohh and creek fishing withy grasshoppers is a blast too.
Thanks for the repost!Reposted another track...I see you posted the whole album as a set, I'll get to it later. (I like to space them out, couple of hours or a day.)
Noted, Buchla Easel...I know nothing about synths but I heard of Buchla in feaures/interviews with Caterina Barbieri - very interesting musician; classical European music education, modular synths, psychoacoustics and so on. (I'll post a link/article later, maybe interesting to a few people.)
I am guessing you meant bass fishing. Where I live there are no bass. There are several+ different kinds of trout, northern pike, arctic grayling, sturgeon which we allowed to catch and release, whitefish, suckers, goldeye, walleye, burbot, sauger and perch. I wanted to take up sturgeon fishing in the river although I couldn't find a rod and reel for casting way out ~10-15 ounces and have about 200-300 yards of line on the bobbin/spool. That and I'm not sure if I want to disturb those beasties. I suppose a bait casting rod for surf fishing would suffice if it can handle a large fish. - All the fish in the river are non-edible due to mountain runoff naturally present mercury content.Nice, good to see. ...No base fishing?
Reminds me, bad experience at one place I lived. 8th floor, and one house next door, with some sort of pool - "water feature" or something, had a lot of frogs. If crickets and cicadas can be 90-95 dB, then those frogs must've been well over 100. It was really bad, like when you lie down to sleep.
Catarina Barbieri is amazing. There’s great video of one of her performances at Ableton Loop on YouTube. Looking forward to checking out the article.
Suzanne Ciani is the master on the Buchla. She worked for Don Buchla early on and went on to be a pioneer in the field. She’s 75 and still performing.
Have been enjoying your Music all afternoon today. Very relaxing and soothing. I get ambient game vibes or movie soundtracks. Nice work Sir!Thanks for indulging me here (yet again).
My new album, The Secret Garden, was released today on Bandcamp and the major streaming services. Stylistically, it’s similar to my prior releases, with jazz-inspired melodic and percussive improvisations layered over ambient soundscapes. Thanks for taking a listen! —Alan
Bandcamp: https://zenso.bandcamp.com/album/the-secret-garden
Thanks very much, Adam! I’m glad you’re enjoying my music; that completes the circle and makes the effort all the more worthwhile!Have been enjoying your Music all afternoon today. Very relaxing and soothing. I get ambient game vibes or movie soundtracks. Nice work Sir!