During the past couple of months I've been working on this Poke project for Orange. It's an amazing feat of web technology where you can record your own sounds and have them mashed up with your friends into songs.

We built this project using a Django backend, Sox, lame, ffmpeg and aubio for audio processing, amqp-js for realtime communication between flash and the server, red5 and an IVR system for note recording and lots of glue in the form of RabbitMQ.

For the song playback we use Standingwave, an open source AS3 library for sequencing and synthesising sounds.

Be sure to check out the auto tuner and phone recording, it's special. =)

Here's my incredibly silly attempt on Ting tings - That's not my name:

This is the original

I dare you to go make a better one! The Sound of Orange Rockcorps

I've been feeling wary about buying apps from the Apple iPhone App Store, but today I finally broke my defiance and got Pocket Guitar, and it is genius. It's only £0.59 and it totally rocks!

Here's a guy playing Pink Floyd:

So the night has come. The last ever (probably) gig with my band Crank. We've only done one gig before and here we are for the last one.

It's at the Grammaphone bar in east London on Thursday 17th July. 8 o'clock till late. Please join!