A real surprise find in our evening meander around the Tate Modern in London. An installation piece by Abbas Zahedi titled ‘Begin Again’ provided a combination of a very cool ambient soundscape with some very far out sculptural instruments.

Starting our trip to London with a quick evening visit to the Tate Modern & this fab little side exhibition by landscape artist Richard Long.

Maybe a day early (Equinox is tomorrow) but it definitely feels like Autumn. Who remembers playing Conkers when they were kids? Drilling a hole through these beauties & attaching a string. Let the battle commence. Your supposed to hit your opponents Conker not their knuckles.

Announcing the next DiN label release will be by the wonderful @loulayorke.bsky.social. Hydrology (DiN94) will be released on limited edition Digiapk CD & download on 21st November. For this, her debut DiN solo release, she has explored the world of water in all its myriad forms.

Fabulous review of Tone Science Module No10 The Final Patch from the always excellent @igloomag.bsky.social These compositions drift between deliberate construction and serendipitous unfoldings—organized improvisation that channels the ethereal through cables and voltage igloomag.com/newswire/ton...

Tremendous review of 'Tone Science Module No.10 The Final Patch' over at the excellent @moonbuilding.bsky.social Thanks to Neil Mason for not only this review but for his excllent essay in the booklet which accompanies the album. moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-80-1...

Today is the official release day for the final volume in the Tone Science series. After seven years, nine previous editions, one concert & 72 musicians, the Tone Science series comes to a close with this celebratory tenth volume, ‘The Final Patch’. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tone-s...

Saw this show at the Sunderland Empire Theatre in Sunderland. Absolutely wonderful. Always loved the Inside No.9 TV series and this translated really well to the stage. Referencing a couple of the TV episodes it was at times hilarious, scary, hi-tech & gothic with the usual twist at the end.

Latest read has been 'The Weapon Makers' by A.E. van Vogt. Originally serialised in Astounding SF in 1943 it was first published in 1947. This is a much later NEL edition from 1970. Another far out tale with so many different ideas vying for your attention. Enjoyable nevertheless.

JUST IN! 'Tone Science Module No. 10 - The Final Patch' by Various 2CD set on DiN, marking the final chapter in their Tone Science series with a twenty track compilation spanning a range of ambient, drone, and electronic styles. @ianboddy.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...

News: Ian Boddy and Chris Carter to release 25th anniversary of collaborative album regenmag.com/news/news-ia...

My 2000 album with Chris Carter, 'Caged', is being released on double red vinyl & CD by the Grey Area of Mute Records on 28th November. Remastered, the album includes 2 new reimaginings from the original audio: ‘Claustrophobia’, by Chris Carter ‘Uncaged’, by Ian Boddy mute.ffm.to/ib-cc-c25

Excellent interview here with @flcartographer.bsky.social (Field Lines Cartographer) chatting to SynthSpotting about the making of his new album, 'Resplendent In The Light Of The Universe' (DiN93). tinyurl.com/2694spje

This compilation goes hard!! So much so that I purchased the physical CD. I'm particularly fond of the Benge track, 'Network of Continuations' & @ianboddy.bsky.social 'LCM360'. Thanks for putting this together! Give it a listen for free on Bandcamp👇 #synthsky #modular #synthesizer #synthmusic

If you want to know the state of the art of modular music, check this out. If you want it listen to one of the best electronic music compilations of all times, grab this one. #electronicmusic #modular #eurorack #synthsky #synthfam #modularsky

Remastering this album from 1989, originally released on CD & cassette on the Surreal to Real label.

Latest read has been 'Slan' by A. E. van Vogt. His first novel published in 1946 (although originally serialised in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in 1940) is a classic story about evolved humans with the abilities to read minds. It's a bit all over the place but enjoyable nevertheless.

Incredible support yesterday for the final iteration of the Tone Science series 'The Final Patch'. Good to see it at the No.1 spot for Electronica on Bandcamp. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tone-s...

7 years, 72 musicians from 10 countries, 98 tracks spanning 796 minutes, 1 concert and 10 editions culminating in 'The Final Patch'. Double Digipak CD with 8 page booklet available now. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tone-s...

So here are my #BandcampFriday purchases. Din Label, Tone science series, such an awesome lineup here din.org.uk/album/tone-s... And taking advantage of nane you price, grabbed also this one from @ianboddy.bsky.social for £1 din.org.uk/album/chiasm... Thanks Ian! #modular #electronic #nowplaying

After seven years, nine previous editions, one concert & 72 musicians, the Tone Science series comes to a close with this celebratory tenth volume, ‘The Final Patch’. Now available as a double CD with an 8-page booklet & download dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/tone-s...

Currently playing 'Air T3m' by Protogonos. Carefully crafted analogue drones, ambiences and atmospheres with moments of beautifully under-stated chordal sections. It's free to download/name your price so you know what to do. protogonos.bandcamp.com/album/air-t3m

You can’t park there mate! Not what you expect to see on your dog walking beach stroll.

Liverpool next year on April 25th. I'm actually looking forward to the big jam session to finish the show off more than my actual set...

Announcing a rather special concert featuring an Electronic Music Triple Bill of myself, @flcartographer.bsky.social & @sulkrooms.bsky.social at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on Saturday 25th April 2026. We will all play solo sets folowed by a 3 way modular jam. tinyurl.com/4bvsstpe

A slight literary diversion from my usual fare with my lastest read being this fine volume of 'Heroes and Villains' by Angela Carter. An ambiguous blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance. At least that's what the back cover says!

Lauching this Friday is the tenth, and last iteration of the Tone Science series, 'The Last Patch'. A double CD with 8 page booklet featuring 20 of the artists who have been on the previous 9 volumes with all new modular synth tracks. Cool promo video here by Nathan Brenville. youtu.be/BnBnlQOZ3io

Chiasmata (DiN16), recorded at my concert at the planetarium of the National Space Centre, Leicester, UK, on 1st November 2003 will be available as a free-to-download / name-your-price album until the end of September. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chiasm...

Remembering Mark. 3 years today and I still find this difficult to comprehend. This atmospheric shot was taken by @chuckvanzyl.bsky.social during our soundcheck for our concert as ARC in Philadelphia in 2009. This remains my favourite concert of ours and it was such an honour to share a stage.

Cooking up a lovely, delicate Courgette & Lemon Risotto this evening.

Further to my post I have unearthed this little nugget of info which might help. It appears that using a different HS code can affect whether you get charged this tariff or not. Up till now I have used 85238090 with no issues but this generates a tariff of 10%.

I'm sure most of us are aware of postal services suspending deliveries to the USA. Well looks like the Royal Mail in the UK have solved this with a PDDP system. This adds another £1.50 to the cost for small packets under 100g (1 x Digiapk CD) but does require the customers phone number.

Listening to INDEX09, a compilation of tracks from DiN releases 81-89, compiled by @ianboddy.bsky.social #CD

So A.E. van Vogt has always been one of my favourite authors from the so called Golden Age of Sci-Fi. Whenever I'm in a 2nd hand book shop I always see if they have any in but they're becoming increasingly diffcult to get. So I couldn't resist this bundle of 28 of his books. Should keep me busy.

Latest read has been 'Consider Phlebas' the first of the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Style wise a space opera which reminded me at times of the Lensman series by E.E. "Doc" Smith or some of the works of A. E. van Vogt. And very enjoyable it was too.

Preparing a series of audio samples for Impulse Responses in a project I'm working on using various analogue tape echoes, spring reverbs and BBD delay lines. These sorts of devices, whilst perhaps fiddly to use and noisy at times, have a real sonic charm of their own.

Some incredible fungi on display during our daily walk with our dog. I'm thinking these are perhaps Meripilus giganteus, a type of bracket fungus also called Giant Polypore (but happy to be correcte dby any experts out there). Several of the local Beech trees have these around their roots.

Now playing the fabulotastic new album, 'Cosmically A Shambles' by @polypores.bsky.social released on the @crackedankles.bsky.social label. Get your (wonky) dancing shoes on as this one is a very upbeat album where tempo & timing are a malleable force to be manipulated in a myriad of inventive ways

Lovely to see this little critter on my evening walk with Wendy & our dog Lola. Really don’t see them very often these days as their population has reduced drastically in the last few decades.

Another feedback patch but this time with the Serge ResEq. Feeding it's main out back into itself & then tweaking each band produces some incredible tones. Using the two Comb outs which split the bands L/R through the Serge 2 channel Phaser with FX from the Wellspring delay/spring reverb.

One of my favourite and probably simplest patch on my venerable VCS3 is this feedback patch. Setting the resonance of the filter just below self oscillation and then routing it's output through the internal spring reverb & back into the filter you get these strange, eerie tones.

Lovers of modern sci-fi might be surprised to find that I've never got round to reading any of Iain M. Banks fabled Culture series so I thought I'd rectify that omission by getting into this troligy of novels. Hoping for good things.

Issue 6 of the excellent @moonbuilding.bsky.social zine along with a lovely new CD by @loulayorke.bsky.social has arrived at the DiN studio. Time to head to the garden, put my feet up and read what's going on in the world of indie electronic music.

Not sure what to wear this summer - then how about one of these fabulous DiN t-shirts which are on a special of just £10 each for the whole of August (+VAT where applicable & postage - no code needed). dinrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/25-yea... dinrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/the-vi...

For the whole of August the 3rd ARC album 'Blaze' (DiN15) will be a free to download/name your price album. An evocative mix of the early Teutonic synth pioneers with modern ambient electronica with the added dimension of live, acoustic drums. dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blaze-...

My 1997 album 'Jade' has just had a remastered digital edition with extra bonus track released on my Bandcamp page. Musically, it was very different from what I had composed before & indeed even today stands rather on its own stylistically from my musical canon. ianboddy.bandcamp.com/album/jade

Super day out walking along the Roman Wall near Greenhead with Wendy & our dog Lola. Beautiful scenery steeped in history.

Current read has been this nice 1st edition (2nd printing) collection of four stories by Dutch author Gerard Reve which I picked up in a lovely 2nd hand bookstore in Groningen. This is the 3rd book I've read of great Dutch authors - the other 2 being Mulisch & Hermans. All very enjoyable.

Schematic diagram showing Ian Boddy's live music set-up, 1984. @ianboddy.bsky.social Source: Electronics & Music Maker Magazine, July 1984. www.muzines.co.uk/articles/sta...

A very cool review over at Star's end Radio for 'Resplendent In The Light Of The Universe' (DiN93), the new release from @flcartographer.bsky.social. "An elusive subtlety supplies quiet chords, puzzling pulses and a background hum of cosmic origin". www.starsend.org/update.html