There’s been a dearth of posts here and i’d like to apologize for that. Life kind of got in the way, as it does, and other matters took up time that could have been spent doing the scant blog updates that I do. I suppose I fell in to the trap of thinking no one [...]
A while ago I tried my hand at no-input mixing as a sonic exploration. The results were gratifying, but I didn’t record anything that I generated with my original setup. Time, however, marches on. Recently I’ve taken up construction of devices for sound generation. These are devices inspired by Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins [...]
This recent experiment falls in to the ‘me too’ category, but I’m still pleased with the result. I saw a recent blog article describing the use of an induction mic, essentially a coil of wire, to collect electromagnetic sounds from various bits of equipment. By wiring a coil or an inductor of some sort to [...]
This is the equipment I’m going to use for an upcoming no-input mixing performance. For the past couple of days I’ve been practising, if you will, making sure that I can keep the various layers of feedback at bay, for a performance I’ll be doing on Friday. It’s very informal, but I thought some preparation [...]
Pure Data (aka Pd ) is ‘a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing’, as described on the Pd community site. By patching elements or externals, together one can build systems to generate and process audio and create video effects. Pd runs on Windows, OSX and of course Linux. Pure Data as [...]
In this photo are my netbook and a bunch of Korg stuff.
Thanks to the genius of some people in the Pure Data community, I’ve been able to assemble a very handy music-making environment.
In March Neutral Ground invited us to perform at the gallery…