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 [...]
Friday, November 6, 2009 No Comments
This is my third year working with Worm Farm Recordings, providing the sound system behind the musicians performing at the Ypsilanti Songwriting Festival. The annual festival now in it’s third year as of 2009, provides a motivating resource for any musician, songwriter, or music enthusiast.
Sunday, October 18, 2009 No Comments
Bring your favorite circuit bent device and be part of the Circuit Bent Cycle. This event will be recorded and released on the Cyclene Records ( www.cyclene.com ) netlabel. As part of the new “Superconductor” series, this particular session will be a continuous string of 1 to 2 minute sound recordings and will be named [...]
Tags: circuit bent
Category: events
Monday, August 24, 2009 No Comments
Several of my soundblocks are on display at the Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester Michigan. This exhibit called “Forage” is a collection of works by artists who use discarded materials to create art.
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 chip tunes, this upgrade will improve the gameboy’s sound quality, giving you better results when recording or playing over a PA or stereo [...]
Friday, July 17, 2009 No Comments
Created with my Machinedrum MKI. Multitracked in Cubase.
[audio:../../../music/resuffusion.mp3]
Tags: machinedrum
Category: music
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
This sound block contains a sampler pulled from the infamous Saw III toy, made popular by getlofi.com. The sampler is triggered by a simple oscillator. Samples can be picked up through the attached mic or through a quarter inch. There are three sound outputs. The red arcade style button is the record, the large yellow [...]
Category: sound blocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
Contact synth with six contact points on the sides. I placed the contacts and the controls so that you can hold it with two hands. The two yellow buttons on top are for the thumbs and the one on the right is a momentary pitch control, the one on the left is a chaos button.
Category: sound blocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
Another version of Galvan. Same as Mini Galvan 1 except this one has a photosensor on his chest.
Category: sound blocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
A smaller version of Galvan with almost identical circuitry.
Category: sound blocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
A space sound effects circuit board rehoused and wired in a modular fashion. The pegs above the knobs connect to pots. Many sounds are possible with different connections.
Tags: circuit, circuit bent, noise
Category: sound blocks
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 No Comments
This sound block is wired to produce static sounds. I discovered a couple new contact points on the circuit that were particularly fuzzy. It also creates some really odd sounds.
Category: sound blocks
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 No Comments
In this track I used my Machinedrum exclusively live. Just a pattern and muting. It’s a dusty track I created some years back and dug up.
[audio:../../../songs/artifact.mp3]
Tags: hardware, machinedrum, music
Category: music
Friday, June 19, 2009 No Comments
This is what you get when you combine three electronic music freaks with several sequencers. Improv without midi sync. ambit, Apres M.I.D.I, and Wicker Basket. Blowin it up.
[audio:../../../music/internetcafeset31106.mp3]
Tags: polymorph, quasimidi, raveolution
Thursday, June 18, 2009 No Comments
I completed the Static Station contact synth. This one has 5 contact points, chaos mode, constant tone button and knob, power switch, speaker and 1/4 inch audio out jack. This block really screams.
Category: sound blocks
Thursday, June 18, 2009 No Comments
I completed the Porta Synth. A contact synthesizer with four contact points, a speaker, and power switch. Made to be portable.
Category: sound blocks
Thursday, June 18, 2009 No Comments
A housey song with an unusual sound from the Polymorph. The drum machine is the Jomox X-Base.
[audio:../../../songs/lemondrop.mp3]
Thursday, June 18, 2009 No Comments
During a trip to Grand Rapids to do a show, my machinedrum suffered a dehabilitating event when I ran over one too many potholes. All the shaking caused the 5205 chip, which is attached to a heat absorber, to detach. Needless to say, I couldn’t perform my set that night, the machinedrum was out cold. [...]
Tags: circuit, machinedrum
Category: gear
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 [...]
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 No Comments
The LTX Theremin is a square wave oscillator that reacts to light. This is a fairly simple circuit and a good one for anyone starting out. It uses the popular 556 timer and a few other parts that are easily obtained. (I will supply the parts listed below in the “Parts List” at a cost [...]