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(tiny) Nifty Codez
I realize from looking through this site that I need to start posting more code (and resulting recordings.) Part of my motivation is that SC3 (now 3.4!) never ceases to amaze me with its possibilities. One can, with a very small amount of code, achieve some incredibly intricate, beautiful sounds. The below is one example.…
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 MoreIntroducing The Little Princess!
What was once the hideous DJ Crappy Tunes (aka DJ Crappy Turntable) has been reborn as the beautiful and talented “The Little Princess!” To see/hear some of the genesis of this beautiful machine, please see our previous post. Below is the first video of The Little Princess. Here, Kane is taking her for a ride…
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…
Read MoreAudio/Video: Uncertainty Music – April 24th
[wpvideo PlQ8VSar] Here is some low-quality video from our show at The Big Room in New Haven. More details will follow. Below is audio only.
Read MoreAudio/Video: Hartford Artspace, April 25th
[wpvideo D3YNrBlv] The above is some low-quality video from our most recent show at Hartford’s Artspace. Below is audio only. The performance space, as you will be able to tell in the recording, was cavernous. I estimate the ceiling to be between 16-20 feet. The room was exceptionally live and reverberant. Our approach is always…
Read MoreShake Rattle and Scacinto
[wpvideo GoPw2hxb] Above is video from the April 11th concert at the YUAG. Below is a low quality video shot from a slightly different angle. [wpvideo ewIKKsYj] Below is an audio recording of my live electronic improvisation EI4 from the Shake Rattle and Roll III concert. The piece is about 8 minutes long and consists…
Read MoreEI4: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, April 11 2010
EI4 is a live performance of an interactive electronic program I wrote for SuperCollider. The performer (in this case, me) uses the built-in microphone to scrape, scratch, and otherwise agitate the system. The software configuration consists of a series of reverbs, feedback lines, and samples which are triggered at various times throughout the performance.
Read MoreDJ TOY THING (aka DJ Crappy Turntable)
El MuCo has begun work on a number of one-off instruments, one of which is briefly described here. This fantastic pile of crap was once a DJ toy whats name I have forgotten, but will refer to as the DJ Crappy Turntable or DJCT for short. This instrument had two “platters” on the top side…
Read MoreCasing the Casio SA2
There are a lot of sites/posts online with either audio or video of bent Casio SA2s. One site in specific has a lot of great, detailed information on the Casio series, and that is CasperElectronics‘s site. In fact, his site should be required reading by anyone looking to learn anything about hardware hacking. That said,…
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