Current Projects
Experimental Musical Instrument Workshop @ MakeHaven
I am pleased to announce another experimental musical instrument workshop in New Haven, this time at MakeHaven (266 State Street New Haven CT.) The event page is below. From there you can RSVP if you are interested in coming! http://www.makehaven.org/event/experimental-musical-instrument-workshop-part-i Just in case you’re still not sold on the idea of whacky musical instruments, here’s…
Read MoreVirtual Matrix Mixer (yes, in SuperCollider)
Kane and I recently dropped $170 at JameCo on potentiometers, switches, diodes, project boards, and more in anticipation of several MuCo projects we have been planning. The main project now after some op-amp FAIL last night (the FAIL being Mimms’s op-amp. Yes, there is a free version on the nets. No, we will not help…
Read MoreScott gets a Marxophone
Marxist-phone-what? Heather’s parents got me a gen-u-ayn Marxophone (a fretless zither!) for my birthday. (Thanks Jim and Karen!) Imagine my surprise when they showed up with several boxes of fantastic electronic toys to dissect, the culmination of which was this fantastic instrument. (I might add, I had never heard of nor seen one of these…
Read MoreMixer Feedback Music: 1204FX Improvisation 2
WARNING: (every good post should begin with one!) Following any of the steps below to create feedback loops with mixers can harm your gear and more detrimentally, your ears. The results are often unpredictable and almost always extremely loud. The pulse waves created by these kinds of setups and heard in the recording below are…
Read MoreAnalog Ring Modulation Circuit
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5JLWrVEQg&hl=en_US&fs=1] Above is a video and below are some pictures of a simple ring mod circuit I whipped up last night. The circuit is the classic circuit, and I’m simply running two oscillators from a hex schmidt 6-oscillator IC through the circuit as the carrier and modulator. The frequencies of the hex schmidt are being…
Read MoreMuCo and the Laying-on of Hands (and pincers)
Having purchased 9 electronic children’s toys for the purposes of evil (and paying by the pound $16 total!) Kane and Dusty set out to bend the devices to their will. With the laying-on of hands, ordinary became extraordinary. Following are some pics and a sound clip of the newly “fantastified” PC Picture Phone. PC PicturePhone
Read MoreEl MuCo: Meeting Notes and Current Plan of Action
Members of El MuCo: The intricately lain plans of this evening are here reproduced in all their glory. But, for those who could not make the meeting, some interpretation may be necessary. Here follows some of the decisions arrived at in tonight’s meeting. 1) We’ve settled on a server-client model where the server is stupid…
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