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Thursday, July 16, 2009 No Comments
Completed the MIDISpeak 2 Talking Toy MIDI Retrofit by Highly Liquid. The retrofit makes it possible to trigger sounds through midi. Assembly was pretty straight forward. The circuit board in my speak and math however, looked different than the photo of the speak and spell on the Highly Liquid site. I took a picture of [...]
Thursday, June 18, 2009 No Comments
I’ve been fortunate to have spent a lot of time in the company of this rare machine. It posesses a unique sound, lots of knobs, flexible sequencer, and is very useful in a live situation. I had to refer to the manual for this one. A bit more complex than your usual synthesizer. Eventually the [...]
Friday, July 17, 2009 No Comments
As a kid, I spent a lot of time with my Commodore 64. I used to experiment with the sid chip by programming a string of variables into it and playing them back. The Sidstation gives me control over the SID6581 sound chip using midi. Sure beats learning 6502 and BASIC to program the commodore [...]
Tags: chiptune, hardware, sid station
Category: gear
Thursday, July 30, 2009 No Comments
I got my triwing screwdriver in the mail, you know what that means, it’s time to open up my gameboy and add the prosound modification! Why? Well if you are into creating chiptunes, this upgrade will improve the gameboy’s sound quality, giving you better results when recording or playing over a PA or stereo system. [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 No Comments
The Nervous Dental Patient The creative folks at Spontaneous Art asked me to help create an interactive art piece for the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. The idea was to create a game in which people had to extract candy from a large mouth with braces. The player had to use a pair [...]
Sunday, February 20, 2011 No Comments
Green Brain Comic Convention Improv Set I was asked to perform a live set for the fine people at the 2006 convention. On stage, I used my trusty Machinedrum, Virus A and Pioneer mixer to create this live set. greenbrain [...]
Tags: event, machinedrum, music
Monday, February 14, 2011 No Comments
In web design, content must be made accessible so that it is usable by people with disabilities. All of us will have some type of disability at some point in our life, either long term or short. So designing products and services to be accessible is beneficial to us all. In the following review, [...]
Tags: hardware, machinedrum, review
Category: gear
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 No Comments
My live performance at Soft Marmalade at the Yellow Barn in Ann Arbor Michigan