Miscellany
Practice
This will be a quick post about my recent practice making electronic and computer music. My creative process has always been… complicated. A contributing factor may be that I rarely reuse compositional systems or take on projects that closely resemble previous ones. I have diverse and varied interests so there’s always something pulling me away…
Read MoreWebdev, fix thine own functions.php
Okay – 1) I’m no webdev and 2) the title is a bad attempt to change the old “physician, heal thyself!” to fit my purposes. Mea culpa. Mea máxima culpa. Still, here I am with a working login to my wordpress install, previously unreachable. Here’s the story nice and short because zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Read MoreExperimental 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 MoreLove Local Design: video
Here is a great little animation Heather Strycharz did in After Effects. It promotes her new business and design concept Love Local Design. I did the little piano ditty. Check it out and check out her site! [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/29996396 w=400&h=225] Love Local Design from hstryk on Vimeo.
Read MoreElectronic Music from “How Things Work” c.1970
On a recent outing to a local bookshop I encountered a 4 volume set of books titled “How Things Work.” It is a wonderful compendium of knowledge in simple but not simplistic language with really great illustrations. The four volumes cover everything from knitting to jet engines. Naturally what caught my eye were all of…
Read MoreDSO Nano V2: unboxing, upgrading, using
**UPDATE** SEE BELOW If you don’t know what a DSO Nano is, but you are in the market for a cheap (<$100) oscilloscope and don’t want to risk one of the totally awesome, but possibly janky analog ones on ebay, then you are in luck having found this post.
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 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 MoreEeePC + Ubuntu 10.04 + Arduino (Mini-Tutorial-of-Sorts)
1. I’m not good at tutorial writing. This is not because I do not have the willingness or ability to write tutorials, but because I lack the patience to write tutorials. However, because I seem to have 3x the number of difficulties that everyone else does doing anything, I have started taking copious notes whilst…
Read MoreStockhausen: Étude (musique concrète) 1952
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zFDumorPg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] I recently ran across this piece which I had not previously heard. It is the first piece of musique concrète by Stockhausen composed in 1952-53 at the RTF in Paris. A quote about the work by Stockhausen from an online source:** “First I recorded six sounds of variously prepared low piano strings struck with…
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