The Listening Centre: The Art Of Solving Problems

Good morning everyone, and happy Monday.
I was thinking on a new series and recieved a great comment yesterday under the Computer Music Magazine tape 12 post, with one series of compilations that caught my eyes and ears called Lammas Night Laments which is a series of compilations that was put out in 2005 of neofolk music. I'm a huge fan on the genre and I'm thinking of doing that next.I've not heard of most of the bands on Lammas Night Laments. However, there are a couple of post punk compilations I have been dying to hear since I found them last week. They are just one offs and not a series of tapes, but thought it would be fun to listen along.

I think I will call this "The Listening Centre" You know those parts of the classroom back in the 70s and 80s (telling my age here) and they would have a record player and or cassette player and a bunch of head phones that would connect into a box that was plugged into the audio players that children would listen to an educational record or tape on? I think I'll call this that.

I'll choose a compilation that's off the internet archive, or even bandcamp and youtube, where it's easily excessable to everyone, we all take a listen, and I pick something, and if readers want, they can tell me which they prefer, or just have fun listening to some new bit of music. Kind of like a book club for music lovers. Also always feel free to leave a comment on what you would like to contribute as well. As long as it is underground/independant. I won't do Spotify, just because I don't like how they treat artists, and their dubious corporate shennanigans, also that you have to sign up to it to listen.

So today's compilation is called The Art Of Solving Problems that I found off the archive https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-solving-problems (Sorry links are broken this morning, just copy and paste in your browser) Let's take a listen and the rule is, if you want to leave a comment, you have to only pick one track. I know this is going to be hard to do, but that's the fun of the challange. Have a great day, and happy listening! ~Nadette

Flirt

Dystopian Junk Mail Issue 18

Untitled Free-writing

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 12 (Final tape)

 Good morning, and happy Sunday. 

Well, it's the end of the Computer Music Magazine tapes. I'm going to dig around and take a look at what other series of tapes that I can listen to, as I found doing this very fun, and was wonderful to explore new music. 

The first track that came on side 1, was a collaboration between The Eurythmics and Chris and Cosey, which is amazing of course, however, the one I chose was on side 2 by Richard Attree and Alejandro Vinao (I hope I spelled his first name right, as it wasn't listed on the tape) simply called System or System track. 

So that's it. I hope everyone who was following from the old site platform has enjoyed the journey through these twelve tapes as I did. If you're new and came in just recently, you can find all of them on here, where I reposted the ones I was doing before the move. 

Thanks for reading and listening along, and hopefully we will have more series. If anyone knows of any, that can be accessed from, say, the Internet Archive, so not just myself can listen to them, but it's free for everyone to listen to, feel free to leave a comment in here, the guest book on the sidebar here under my profile, or make a post under these on my Bluesky account. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive 

Link to my playlist 

~Nadette

Estranged

Photos taken with a toy thermal printer camera.

 

Don't let go of childhood

Photo taken with a Playskool showcam. 

 

Neon Sign Baby Blues

Canadian Television Memory

 Ever wake up with a song stuck in your head? I did this morning.

I couldn't place what it was, and I just remembered where the song is from. There was this old exercise children's show, back when I was a kid called Body works, that was shown on the English CBC (I was born and raised in Montréal). If I was home to see it, I used to like doing the little exercises on it. This morning that theme song was, and still is an hour later, stuck in my head. Funny how you don't think on a show for so long, and it just comes back like that. 

 

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 11

 Good morning, and happy Saturday. 

I cheers my morning coffee to you all. 

We are just one more tape away from the end of this series, and I'm a little sad. I would love to continue doing something like this. So before, I used to just do a daily song shuffle off my phone or mp3 player, and post the song that comes up. I may go back to doing that until another series of tapes like this comes my way. 

So on tape 11, there was a few great songs on this one, but this one I listened to just was so atmospheric and, as I was working, it put me in a different world almost. It was a song I just got lost in. 
It's the side 1 track by Jim Pellatt called Discovery. 

So we now have the final tape today I'm going to listen to, which I'll post tomorrow. Then Monday, I'll start doing the daily song shuffle again, until another interesting series of tapes cross my path. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

NOTE FROM THE EDITING DESK

Just realized as I was putting the final track on tape 12 up on the screenpal channel, that I forgot to add my pick for tape 11 in there. It's there now. My apologies. 

The Reasons I Didn't Speak

Untitled piece

A Sprinkling Of Snow

There was a little dusting of snow today, so I had to bring out the toy thermal camera to capture the first snow of the season. 

 

Site updates

Since I moved over here, I thought to start decorating this new home. Off to the side you'll find a guestbook to sign, and one of the very first gifs I ever made which is the Size Small record dancing. 

Also at the bottom, I stuck in a visitor counter. 

Have a great Friday everyone, and stay warm out there if you're having a cold winter day like I am here. 

~Nadette

Goofing around with Microsoft Kids Fine Artist Studio.

I found this silly art program for kids over here on Classic Reload. I love using old art software for children. I find the limitations to be fun and challenging. This is me just having silly play time in there. 

 

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 10

 Good morning, and happy Friday. 

With listening to tape 10 yesterday, there was some great songs on it, however, the one that really caught me was by The Baptistas with their song called Revolving Peter. 

Just two more tapes left in this series. I think I'll go back to what I was doing before this, and I hit shuffle on my MP3 player and we have a song of the day. I really loved doing this series though. If I can find some more cassettes that are a series of something, I will do something like this again. It was so fun exploring these. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist 

~Nadette

Somewhere In A Foreign Field

Thermal print toy camera photos

Here are a couple of photos taken with my toy thermal print camera

My favourite toy camera to work with.

 

How To Run From Tigers

Winter In The City

 

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 9

 Good morning and welcome back, or if you're new here, welcome to the new space!

                                                              

Wow, it's good to be back on blogger after many many moons ago. Everything is so intuitive and I'm not messing with codes and I can just focus back on writing again and no hindrance of that sort of thing. 
It can break a creative flow when you are in the middle of a poem and have to code to make something italic or bold or to add an image etc. The best thing is, no bots! :D Well except for google's but you know what I mean. None are bad gremlins gremlining around my site and messing with it. 

                                           

So if you are new and stumbled on this and have not followed from the other site, I found a bunch of interesting tapes that has great synth and computer music that came with computer magazines called 
Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music Magazine, over on the internet archive where it's full of equipment demos, reader submissions, and features on prominent artists. I have been listening to these tape by tape each day and picking out the one I like the most. The past ones I've done have all been re-uploaded here and you can check them out by following the computermusicmagazinetapes link in this post, but you should be able to find them. I've not got much up here yet. 

So onto tape 9, which nothing really caught my ear except of this which I really enjoyed listening to. 
It's a song, and an interview with Severed Heads artist Tom Ellard. 

He talks about his possess of recording samples, and the creative process of incorporating them into music. Also made an untitled Severed Heads song for the tape. 

Onto tape 10 today that I'll listen to while working,  and sadly we only have 2 more tapes in the series. I'm really enjoying these. 

If anyone out there has suggestions on other tape series I could listen to that are on the Internet Archive, leave me a comment, and I'll check them out.  I love having a comment section again for moments like this. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Collide Out Of Reach

 

The Big Transfer Over

 Wow! We are practically done. 

*collapses from exhaustion of the move*

That was a bit of work. I didn't bother to do post for post, so I made pages with the archives from the other site and finished the latest series of the computer music tapes I've been listening to and picking a song out of them. Seeing how that is ongoing, I brought it over in it's individual posts, and the next post to it will be up tomorrow morning. 

The writing, I've just put into a folder in my MEGA drive account with the other things in what I named "The Vault" and you may go look at those there, or just continue fresh with what I'll be posting later with the freewriting post. 

Right now, I'm going to have something to eat and see you all later with the evening post as usual. 

Thanks for your patience in getting this all up and going. 

Hopefully this is the place we'll call home. I do like that I can directly upload video and stuff here without embedding from another site. I also like that it has comments in here, which I may turn off later if we get too much crazy spam bots or something. 

Anyway see you later with this evening's writing post. 

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 8

 Good morning and happy Wednesday!

We're on tape 8 and there was not a whole lot that caught my ear for my taste. Most were sounding a bit like the typical mid-80's pop song. However, this came on that really made me notice. 

It's no secret around here that I like music a bit avant-garde and experimental. This 16 year old guy by the name of Simon Louin, which I may have spelled the name wrong because there's no listing on the copy of the tape this time.  The song is called Vietnam. It's so gives me the vibe of a song by Coil or Doubting Thomas. Maybe an influence on the guy. So I would like to say thank you Simon for this track because you really added something unique to this tape for us deeply alternative music people. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cassette series: Tape 7

 (Originally published on Dec. 2, 2025)

Good morning and happy Tuesday. 

So I took a listen to tape 7 at work yesterday and wow. One song stuck out to me. The demo song on side one was great. I love those 80s songs with the robotic voices in it, however, the song I chose was the last song on side two. It was just so ambient and as I was working listening to it, it took me completely out of my job and to someplace else. 

So here it is. It's by The Echo Observatory/Bill Nelson with the song Sex, Psyche, Etc. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine series: Tape 6

 (Originally published on Dec. 1, 2025)

Good morning, and happy Monday!

So, picking a track off tape 6 has been very easy for me. There was no questions. I love experimental music, and when I heard Metallic Dislocation by Akihito Turuta, off side 2, I knew this was my pick. 

There was another one on side 1 at 26:14 call The Visitor by Mark Jenkins, so it's my runner-up, but I thought to only pick one, but I highly suggest you take a listen. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 5

 (Original publish date: Nov. 30, 2025)

I'm enjoying this series so much. I'm finding all kinds of awesome music out of these tapes. I'm going to clip the best in mp3s, and then maybe throw them in this site's "vault" for people to download when all twelve tapes are done. There's so much good stuff, and tape 5 was a gold mine of great music. There was an awesome instrumental track by Cocteau Twins off their Treasures album. I'm trying to only pick out a song from an artist that is not as well known (at least by me) to feature, as we know Cocteau Twins is going to be good. But I highly advise people who do like them, to take a listen to side one, about 26:46 minutes in. It's awesome. 

There's also a great track by the band SPK on side two which was great, but over all I narrowed my choice down to two. It was so hard for me to pick one over the other, so I decided to break the rules and do the two of them. 

The first song just took me to a nice place. The track was so dreamy to me. It was just a demonstration of a music program called Ample for the Acorn 500. The track was by, and I maybe spelling their names wrong as they are not listed on the tape listing, but their names sound like Andrews McCurnon...McCurnin? Then Chris Jorden. 

The song is Starflight 500. 

The next pick has that wonderful minimal wave 80s sound I absolutely love. It was a reader submission by a group/artist named Fayshall Arts with the song The Clown. 

Each day I'm looking more and more towards listening to the next tape. There's such good stuff on all of these. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes Series: Tape 4

(Originally published on Nov 29, 2025)

Good morning, and happy Saturday!

Yesterday I listened to Tape 4 and here is my pick for this one. It was tough because there was a lot of great ones. But this one stood out more for me. Maybe because I'm a fan of the band Wire. It's a track by Bruce Gilbert called UMuU (funny spelling but that's the way it was listed on the cassette listing :D ) 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cover Cassettes series: Tape 3

 (Originally published on Nov. 28,2025)

Good morning, and happy Friday! What a long week. Anyway, we made it. Now let's get into the Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music Magazine tapes. I'm having a lot of fun doing this. There's some great music on these last couple of tapes, and I can't wait for the next one. But I am limiting myself to one a day. It gives me that little thing to look forward to doing each day. 

So on tape 3, there was a lot. Especially that awesome sound sample of a BBC Micro drum track. That was awesome. But I'm not going to do the samples of things they do and advertise on there, just songs. I was struggling between a couple today, but instead of the Bronski Beat one as they are pretty well known. Unless the song by a well known artist really stands out, I don't want to do the celebrity features and find the lesser known/or home recording artist. 

This one though I guess he's a long time artist, as the host announces, but I've not heard of him here in Canada, but could be a big name in Britain. It's by Joseph Ho'maker with his song called Across Icy Waters on side 2. 

This track just has that hauntology vibe to me, but a happy hauntology vibe. It seems familiar to me, like something I heard before, but it completely captures that synth sound of an old film projector educational film back when I was a kid in school. I love this. 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my channel playlist

~Nadette

Computer Music Magazine Cassettes series: Tape 2

 (Original publish date Nov. 27, 2025)

Good morning, and happy Thursday.

Not much going on, so let's get into tape two of the Computer Music Magazine cassette. 

Taking a listen to the second one, there was a lot of great tracks, but again, I have to go with one of the songs sent in by one of the readers on side 2. It's the song Tiny People by Clawdia. This time I included the person announcing the song and the artist. I think it's cooler that way so if I mishear the names, one of you all can let me know in the comment section of the video of the song on the tape channel I'll list below.

Link to my tape playlist

Link to the tapes on Internet Archive

~Nadette

Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music Magazine Tapes Series: Tape 1

(published originally on the other site on November 26, 2025)

Good morning, and happy Wednesday. 

Anyway, other than doing a song shuffle today, and for the next 12 days, I've decided to do a little special thing. I was on the glory that is the Internet Archive, and was looking for music done with computers from the 80s. I came across this person's archive upload from some British computer music magazine called Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music Magazine, which included tapes with it, and they uploaded 12 of these tapes. 

I thought it would be fun to listen to each tape a day and pick out a song that I really like off it, and post it. So in the coming 12 days, I'm going to be doing just that. 

Yesterday I listened to the first tape and on side 2 this song stuck out to me. I love it! I still have the song in my head. 

It was some demo that a reader sent into them and though I couldn't make out the full name of this by the host on the tape who introduced it. But the person called themselves Johnny Pop, and the song is Gobble (something) Moonbeams. 

Here it is. 

I can't wait to get to work and dive into tape 2 while I'm working. There's some awesome stuff on these. I know it's going to get hard to pick just one :D 

**Links**  

The list of the tapes on the Internet Archive

Link to my Song pick playlist

~Nadette

Back Up Blogger

 Hi everyone. I my main site is over on bearblog.dev, but I have been having a bit of a concern, with an influx of bots over there, and just to be on the safe side, I've decided to open up a blogger alternative. Just encase that site goes bust. 

Its been a while since I used blogger, but it was one of my very first platforms I used when I made a poetry blog many many moons ago. I so wish I could remember what it was called, but even if I did, it is probably lost to the ages sadly. If I recall, I set it up when I believe Blogger was launched! So a very long time ago. So seeing this, and everything being pretty much as it was, except for new themes (though I had to pick the classic theme out of nostalgia), I thought to come back here to have as a back up. Who knows, if the nostalgia bug keeps biting me looking at this place, and how easy it is to use, where as, I love the way you just type and it's done without having to mess with codes and markdown etc. Maybe I may come back here. I know there is a lot of questions about google's thing on privacy, but for a free blog, and the security that comes along with this, and did I mention free for all of it, I'm really enjoying my time back. 

Anyway, I'm going to start moving everything over when I get off work. It maybe quite the project, or I may just link everything and go forward from there, like I did the last platform change I did. Who knows if I want to take the long and painful route, which in the end looks nice, or the lazy route and just archive everything in my drive and then go from there. 

I'll think it over as I'm at work today. 

Anyway, this feels like the home of an old friend that I've come over for coffee, and their house hasn't changed since the many years you last visited. 

No judgement, I'm stuck in my ways too, dear old Blogger. 

~Nadette