Lots of work is being done — just none on this site! Kane and Scacinto have found some interesting and exciting sounds on the Casio SA-2, and a post is in process. However, dissertations must be finished, and Kane has a lot of drinking to do, so most likely some new and janky stuff will…
Continue ReadingLess 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…
Continue ReadingOn Saturday the 18th of July, the first El MuCo instrument was completed and taken for her maiden voyage. Enjoy some pics of the instrument and a sound clip of scacinto introducing her sonorous loveliness to the world (not for the first time, but for the first time as a complete and beautiful lady…) Also…
Continue ReadingOnce the PC Picture Phone and the KidTUnes were eviscerated and frankensteined back together in a manner more aesthetically pleasing to both eye and ear, it was time to re-house the KidTunes. The aesthetic of painted toy plastic is nauseating to both Scacinto and Kane so a plexiglass housing with stainless (when possible) hardware was…
Continue ReadingOn 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…
Continue ReadingAfter 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…
Continue ReadingHaving 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
Continue ReadingSome 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…
Continue ReadingI’ve been reading through Leonard Smith’s Chaos: a Very Short Introduction in my spare time (twice a month.) It is truly fascinating reading (depending on your definition of fascinating) and absolutely enlightening to a recovering philistine groping at the previously eschewed topics of mathematics, physics, and philosophy*. I’m going to post some of the algorithms/systems…
Continue ReadingRecording 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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