El MuCo
El MuCo: PC PicturePhone Janked (plus a little Kidtunes)
On the 27th of June, in the year of our Lord (his Noodliness the Flying Spaghetti Monster) 2009, a PC Picture Phone was janked into greatness. Additional functionality was also added to the KidTunes Keyboard with some soldering and the assistance of “The MegaPot.” The creation of the PC Picture Phone JankoCircuit ™ on the…
Read MoreCapturing the gentle sounds of short circuits
After a long night soldering in the “man room,” Kane recorded some of the gentle sounds of the the Scientific Toys Kidtunes Electronic Keyboard. By running a cable straight from the speaker (and bypassing any external amplifier circuit) the sound is surprising clean…and, dare I say it, refreshing! Kidtune Magicke Addendum: A few more samplings…
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 MoreRecommended for Advanced Listeners Only
Some goodies inspired by (and some taken from) Delton T. Horn’s book titled “The Beginner’s Book of Electronic Music.” While the book is an excellent resource as a “hole”, there are some particularly great passages such as that on musique concrete and the Discography at the end (from whence comes the warning issued in the…
Read MoreEl MuCo: Server Code
Follows the testing code: /* El MuCo “Server” 169.254.136.163 – Powerbook self-assigned IP to reset the environment (clear everything – all responders, senders, etc.) currentEnvironment.clear; */ s.boot; SynthDef(“kane”, { |freq = 40| Out.ar([0,1], SinOsc.ar(freq)); }).send(s); // SERVER: set the broadcast flag to true NetAddr.broadcastFlag_(true) //169.254.255.255 = broadcast IP: 57120 is sclang default port ~server =…
Read MoreMeeting Summary for Jan 24th
Hi all: here follows a brief summary of what went down at today’s get-together. If you don’t feel like reading anything and simply want to know when the next meeting is, it is scheduled for next Saturday, January 31st at 8pm. We’ll code seriously for 3 hours or so, then make with the drinky, and…
Read MoreMeeting Saturday the 24th
Hi all, This is a reminder that we are scheduled to meet this coming Saturday @ 1pm. Please bring a working prototype of your instruments in order to test them with the server. (It would be great to have sound working by the end of the day!) Juraj, can we be in contact about what…
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…
Read Moremeeting on the 17th
Hello all: It has become apparent, because of concert schedules and holiday plans, Wednesday is the only day this week we can meet. Lets aim for Wednesday at 5:15 at the Anchor Bar like the last meeting. We will discuss the server structure in-depth and plan for the next meeting. -s
Read MoreFirst Meeting December 13th
A reminder to all members that our first meeting will be taking place on December 13th at Juraj’s place. Be there!
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