Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’
FridayNightThing II (2011)
Here are some pictures and a short video from FridayNightThing II (Feb. 25th.) A big thanks to Heather for taking all the pics and video, editing them together, and putting them online. As always, a big thanks to all who came, participated, and spectated. The next FridayNightThing will be on Friday March 25th. Get out your pots and pans and plan on joining us!
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 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 MoreLost Voices of Blasphemous Friends
In 2006 I both completed recording for, and abandoned, a sound installation for 8 speakers. The work, originally titled Voices of Blasphemous Friends was intended for installation at a festival to which I was never invited. I recently stumbled upon the recordings, mostly in a state of discombobulation, and the 5 movements/excerpts I used to…
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 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 MoreEl MuCo: Birth of The Growler!
Less than two weeks after the completion of the JankoTunes (real name pending) Kane and Scacinto have finished the second El MuCo instrument! Witness the birth of THE GROWLER! In its previous life, The Growler was a PC Picture Phone: a pathetic and annoying toy whose only purpose was to entertain tiny people with underdeveloped…
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 MoreStudie II: i’d forgotten
Recording of Studie II by Karlheinz Stockhausen Studie II When I heard this piece a few days back (for the first time in years) I’d forgotten how fundamentally good this piece is. I’d forgotten the seductive, if abrasive, curves of its mellow, noisy goodness. I’d forgotten the insistent consistency of it. I’d even forgotten my…
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