BeepGlitch

New blog online

2009-08-03T18:38:00.005+01:00

Some things just takes time, this is certainly one of that cases

I try ed to put the website up, but unfortunately i have limited resources in the php and web development and also limited time, so i try ed my best but was enought. I came up with some other resolution because we were getting tons of traffic in the old blog, so i decided the wordpress solution.

New layout and a bunch of new things including interviews and a small store for some electronic devices, also for those who are interested in circuit bending d.i.y etc in Lisbon area there’s a new space its called Alt/Lab and its open to new people and new ideas.

For now thats it hope you all enjoy the new blog.

Here is the new adress http://beepglitch.wordpress.com/

No news post until new site is on air

2008-09-22T16:15:00.002+01:00

Hi all
We are currently in a process of porting this blog to a new and improved website.
This is taking a long time because its only me thats is doing all the work.
I apologise for that and in October the new site should be up and running, but until then theres should be no new posts, this process takes all my time (and im working faster i can to do this update, but this alsos messes with PHP and its so confusing ..:) )
So back to work

Tom bugs interview

2008-07-27T15:42:00.003+01:00

After the workshop in lisbon were we produced This (we put together), i thought it was a good idea to publish an interview in this blog from Tom Bugs from Bugbrand, after a couple emails ,here it is.

Tom, you have been working for a long time in music and producing your own instruments.
In your opinion whats the importance of diy electronics in contemporary music ?

The Inspiration - music is by no means a science. Inspiration comes in many forms and from many angles. A major aim for my own productions has been to make devices that will surprise you with new ideas - both in terms of sounds and also in interface, how you play the instrument.
The Process - the world moves quickly, there is a culture of throwaway or more-more-more. By making something yourself you take the time to sink yourself in to the process. By using hardware rather than software you have a fixed system that you can learn and come back to again and again. One of the problems I have with computer music today is that there is often *too many* possibilities - the controls of your instrument keep on shifting, so it is hard to learn that instrument.

Also have you feeling that homemade instruments and circuit bending are bringing more people to the electronic music scene?

Maybe! The synth DIY arena is very active today, though its still very niche too - definitely not for everyone. Circuit bending is certainly a great leveler - anyone can get involved very easily. The internet is probably the single most important factor in nurturing this as it presents so much information and sharing possibilities.

In your workshop in lisbon i saw that most people didn't have electronic knowledge, and they don´t feel threaten by it.
What your opinion on that ?

Hehe, well, the design we made in the workshop was very much designed so that it could easily be put together by anyone, even without experience in electronics. As I say at the beginning of such workshops, electronics can be a darn confusing when starting out (and beyond too) - people get put off if their first attempts at electronics don't work, so it is good to make a complete project which you can be pretty certain will work first time. That hopefully gives a good feeling for carrying on to other projects!
There is so much info about on the net for beginning electronics, but it can be very hard to see the wood for the trees - there is a lot of different things to try to get your head around, so doing a complete project kit is a good way to be introduced.

Like i said in the beginning this is a small interview, so do you have any last words for all the enthusiasts out there ?

Well, going back to the first question, I should say that I've actually only been doing electronics for about 5 years (oh, and also that it has pretty much crushed my more musical / recording output too!).
I've had virtually no 'proper' training - I've just learned by trying things out lots and lots, with info from the net and from books.
If you want to, jump on in!

Thanks for the kind words hope to see you soon here in lisbon again.

Bugbrand

Adachi Tomomi

2008-06-29T15:45:00.003+01:00

This is one of that rare finds in the net when beautiful instruments become also beautiful music.
Adachi as some of the most simplicity objects and yet simply astonishing.
I guess circuit bending dyi is this the perfect combination between hardware and music.
"ADACHI Tomomi, born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972, is performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, occasional theater director. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments. He had composed works for his own group "Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus" which is a punk-style choir. He has performed contemporary music: vocal and performance works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Dieter Schnebel, Yuji Takahashi and Fluxus including world premier and Japan premier. He is the only performer of sound poetry in Japan and has performed Kurt Schwitters's "Ursonate" for the first time in Japan. He has made several sound installations and original instruments (e.g."Tomomin", his hand made electric instrument is familiar with many musicians). In the field of theater music, he has collaborated with some experimental theaters and dancers, especially he worked in duo group "VACA" with Un Yamada; contemporary dancer, from 2000. "VACA" was exploring new relationship between dance/dancer and music/musician. He also has organized many concerts which picks up experimental music, sound art, collaboration work and inter-disciplinary performance in Japan and Germany, include concerts for Chris Mann, Trevor Wishart, Nicolas Collins and STEIM in Japan. He has performed with numerous musicians including Jaap Blonk, Nicolas Collins, Carl Stone, SAKATA Akira, Erhart hirt, Butch Morris, Jon Rose, OTOMO Yoshihide in Japan, United States and Europe. He has presented his works in many kinds venues include IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Waker Art Center and STEIM. As a critic, he has written some articles of visual art, music and performance art on papers and magazines. He had participated in the art theory bulletin "Method" 2000-2001. He started visual art (computer aided photograph, video and installation) in 2003. He directed Japanese premiere of John Cage's "Europera5" in 2007. Recently, he is focusing his activities on solo performance (with voice, sensors, computer, self-made instruments), sound poetry (especially to the unknown great Japanese sound poetry tradition), video installation and workshop style big ensemble with non-professional voice and instruments."

Adachi Tomomi

Machinecollective

2008-06-27T00:45:00.002+01:00

Im excited...are you ?
If not just see this.

"In spite of all the smart, multifunctional and state-of-the-art controllers that are commercially available today, there has always been demand for custom physical interfaces and specialized controllers. That's why we have developed a modular prototyping platform. The prototyping modules are aimed at researchers, artists, musicians, circuitbenders and performers who want to use high quality controls without spending too much time on manufacturing or trying to find a suitable enclosure.

Machinecollective understands your needs and we're here to help you out! We are working on a range of modules based on frequently used components, sensors and indicators. The prototyping modules are designed to work with development platforms such as Arduino and Wiring. The modules can also be used for other purposes such as circuitbending, DIY synths, analog sequencers or plain old electronics projects."

Machinecollective

Tom Bugs, Goodiepal

2008-06-24T16:16:00.002+01:00

This week i have been attending to a series of workshops in Lisbon made by "Um festival".
The first workshop was "building yourself a noize machine" and was presented by Tom Bugs from Bugbrand, that was simple, a kit, some soldering irons, lots of resistors and a whole lot more of capacitators, the end result ...Lots of ours of fun and a cool device with 3 oscillators.
When talking to Tom after the workshop we promised me a interview to be publish here soon.
Then came the Goodiepal workshop and the educational presentation of its book "Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra"
There we talked about music desconstrution, the music tempo and the influence of it in modern music, also some quantum mechanics theories, goodiepal mechanical birds and ofcourse mickey mouse (that is a joke).
The overall result was positive but i think somethimes the crown lost a bit of perspective adressing goodiepal.
Ofcourse a interview will be posted soon here too.
Im really glad of attending this discussion about modern music and the new forms influences to it.

Goodiepal
Tom Bugs
Um festival

Cellular Recombomat

2008-06-11T23:40:00.003+01:00

Sascha as alerted me about this cellular automata based synth, stuff, whatever i must say something, after viewing the videos and see what this baby can do ...i want one (first the klee sequencer, then Seq v3 "midibox" then this one) ah ah ah i have so much work to do..
"My main idea with this gadget was to have optical control over the three main basic cellular automata (CA) controls (which are controlled by the pots on the right side, from the top): algorithm (the algorithm used to generate the type of cell which also controls what tone is generated based on the object created), width across the grid, and speed of cellular generation, each line generated one at a time from top to bottom. I replaced the LEDs in the snake lites reaching in from behind with optical resistors and each equate to the three pot-based control parameters. Ultimately I wanted to have the optical resistors control the output to the video screen, thus creating a recombinant feedback control loop. I couldn't wait to see what that would look like! But, after casing up, only the algorithm optical control worked. Something inside must have gotten squished or shorted, which is not surprising considering the pile of spaghetti and circuit boards I had to shove into the tiny case (which, by the way, started its life as a VTECH LessonOne, a boring in itself educational toy but the perfect case for this gadget! And, a perfect fit for a 7" LCD monitor ripped from a "broken" portable DVD player.)"

Cellular Recombomat

Klee sequencer

2008-05-31T16:29:00.005+01:00

Q: What is a Klee Sequencer?

A: A Klee Sequencer is a compositional tool that perhaps could be thought of as an almagm of the concept behind (but not the implementation of) the Triadex Muse coupled to a step sequencer. Klee Sequencing relies upon the composer's innate ability to discern patterns of musical worth from a variety of rhythms and pitches produced through a method that is often impossible to predict through interaction with the controls. Often, through manipulation of a single control or switch, the Klee Sequencer can reveal a new direction or approach to an already established Klee Sequence.
And if you want to build one (good soldering knoledge, and a basic now how of circuit integration needed), here is something to start.

Klee sequencer explain
Klee sequencer build (parts and pcb)
Klee sequencer more info and parts

Peter Vogel

2008-05-31T16:08:00.006+01:00

Sascha as sent me an email about the wonderfull work of Peter vogel.
"Peter Vogel is a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic sculpture. He was formally trained in physics, and has explored technology's intersection with dance, musical composition, and visual art since the late 1960s. Vogel's interest lies in both interactive and musical structures. The interactive sensitivity of his constructions utilizes photocells and microphones that react to spectators, creating an experience of seeing and hearing unique improvisations triggered by light and shadow. Merging form and function, the delicate electronic circuits in Vogel’s artworks are elegantly arranged. A retrospective of his work will take place in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Freiburg. His work has been collected by ZKM; the Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany; Rijksmueum; Wakayama Museum of Modern Art,and Joshibi Art Museum in Japan. Vogel’s electronic sound sculptures have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Lyon, Winnipeg Art Gallery in Canada, Ruhrland museum in Essen, the Goethe Institute in Uruguay, Berlin Academy of Arts, and numerous galleries throughout Germany. He has participated in various group shows including “Ecoute” at the Centre Pompidou in 2004. "
In Bitforms website you can see is work and also Golan levin, wich i post here in january.

Bitforms
Video

Urgent: Stein in trouble and needs your help

2008-05-31T15:46:00.004+01:00

The inventors of Cracklebox are in trouble.
"Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of losing our structural funding from the government, based on a review from the advisor board which called us 'closed and only appealing to a niche audience'. The outlook isn't exactly bleak, but at the moment our future is unclear."
Please take a moment and fill out the form to write a letter to the Dutch government.

Email form
Stein
Via (music thing)

Not breathing sound systems & Carrion sound

2008-05-07T15:28:00.007+01:00

My friend Sascha renner as sent me an email about this.
I must admit that im having trouble writing this post, theres so much information that i dont really know were to start.
Theres circuit bending machines, modular instruments,lighting stuff etc...
Theres also a store were you could buy stuff.
Lots of schematics too.
Some instruments are influenced by ciat lonbarde but the cases and the wood designs are really something to see.
Without further delay here goes.
"we have worked with the record labels: terminal dusk, kimosciotic, invisible records, dagon productions, antzen / hymen, asafoetida, auscultare, instant shoggoth, pinch a loaf, visible records, little fox, sick muse, mutant music, F.D.R., haltapes, mother savage noise, brutal sound effects, DHR, hushush/hednod, labyrinth, zyon, spite, VUZ, many others...
we have toured the US several times. we have toured as support act for the following bands us tours: einsturzende neubauten, pigface, dead voices on air, flange du mal, subarachnoid space, test department, sheep on drugs, etc...
we make our own music equipment - please look at our site for info on that"

Not breathing sound systems & Carrion sound

Alpha-machine

2008-05-07T15:22:00.004+01:00

New instrument from sascha (aka SubtleNoiseMaker).
Great design, as always, this one goes for about 340€ he puts also some samples on the site, be shure to check it out.

Alpha-machine

Behold the new face

2008-05-07T15:18:00.004+01:00

Too much work in the past weeks trying to design the new beep glitch.
Its all comming great the design and the code for the site.
So here is a first pic, hope that you like it.

Bent 2008

2008-04-14T21:53:00.003+01:00

Its close one more year of Bent festival, first New yor then L.A and least but not last Miniapolis, for those you are going have lots of fun.
"This is the fifth year of the Bent Festival, and will be the most expansive year to date featuring more workshops, performers, and art installations than ever before. Sponsored in part by Make Magazine (www.makezine.com), this yearÕs festival will continue last year's tradition of taking the festival on the road, from coast to coast! The dates and locations for this year's festival are as follows"

New York -April 24-26
LA -April 17-19
Minneapolis -May 1-3

Bent Festival

The 2 mile Quadruplex

2008-04-08T02:35:00.003+01:00

The 2 mile Quadruplex is a new film organisation that is pro-magnetism and anti-narrative.
We are looking for video in the following (made-up) genres:

* noise
* video-synthesis
* video-bent
* demoscene
* trash/broken
* old media
* data bending/'Mush'-inima
* ear-eye experiments
* VHS nostalgia
* other...

for an evening of video, film and live performances in Hull, UK.
Deadline: 30th May 08

Quadruplex

Creature

2008-04-05T14:56:00.003+01:00

From Haunted house records comes Creature, a electronic circuit bending sample dvd.
"Electronic Critters is a sample dvd based on circuit bent childrens toys. This sample dvd was born during the creation of Creature's latest album Distant Horizon. At the start of the albums writing process, creature aka Stephen Haunts from Derby in the UK, spent months circuit bending and sampling childrens toys. Once sampled, the recordings where chopped up and run thorugh numerous effects to create sounds unlike anything you have ever heard before. Stephen enjoyed this process so much, that after Distant Horizon was released, he continued processing these sounds and created even more alien sounding textures. The result is this sample dvd. The package contains:"

Creature electronic critters

Nemo

2008-04-05T14:46:00.004+01:00

Another one from genoqs machines, this one is called nemo, a full midi sequencer.
Here is some info about it.
"Nemo is a high-end MIDI step sequencer, adding portability to the highly acclaimed functionality and user friendliness of Octopus. It is in many ways an Octopus in disguise, and one that feels equally well in a backpack or on your lap!

It features the same sequencing lighthouse features that Octopus users have enjoyed for years, including polyphonic steps, self-modulating and cross-modulating sequences, freely editable musical scales, user editable runtime directions, full-scale MIDI recording, and much more.

Nemo’s tactile and visual feedback, as in Octopus, is a physical experience so typical for traditional musical instruments. You know already that music is about your body as music is being felt, heard and played with Nemo. And the numbers behind it all.. no display? Well, do you really care? Yes, computers love them. We love light, color, and most of all music!"

Nemo

Phidgets

2008-03-31T13:51:00.002+01:00

"What are Phidgets?

Phidgets are a set of "plug and play" building blocks for low cost USB sensing and control from your PC. All the USB complexity is taken care of by our robust API. Applications can be developed quickly in .NET, Visual Basic, VBA (Microsoft Access and Excel), LabView, Java, Delphi, C, C++ and Python.
The coolest thing about Phidgets is that you can map it anywere in your software (like midi and osc)and play around with the sensors.
They have a lot of bundles and starter kits at a good price.
I would love to see a circuit bending instrument controled by this phigets.

Phigets

Nervoussquirrel

2008-03-10T16:10:00.003Z

Just take a look at those instruments, nice carving, great design, and great sounds too.
Nervoussquirrel aka David crammer built this wonderful instruments and a lot of good and strange stuff too (just look ate the coil winder), but what catch my eye was the built quality of this stuff... supreme.

Nervoussquirrel

This post was bought to you by Sasha renner

Sonic devices for sale

2008-02-26T22:26:00.002Z

"SNM-Chaoscillator
needs 2x 9Volt Battery
2 chaotic oscis, both with chaos on/off switch, each osci benefits of a power-starve knob.
both channels can be connected to the added passive ringmodulator, or one channel and anything amplified else
can be connected to the ringmod. or two amplified signals could go to the ringmod."

"VCacophonator - board layout @ worth ekik
needs 1x 9V-Battery"

"Weird sound generator in wooden case with low power modding:
printed PC Board from Ray Wilson (gave me green light to sell the modded wsg)
needs 1x 9V-Battery"

Just look at this instruments..:) they are so beautifull and so tasty too, and they are for sale, just check the Subtlenoizemaker website and deliciate yourself.

Sonic for sale

Quad box

2008-02-26T22:22:00.005Z

"quadripolar is collective recordings of experimental brazilian artists.
free improvisation.
live recordings.
handmade devices.
circuit bending.
home made for home listening.

Quad is not a label.
It is a collection of experimental recordings, some in my livingroom, others live.
In my home I use technics of hardware hacking and circuit bending, living behind all theories and conventions.
Old and damaged solid state tape recorders, instruments build and modified by me are some of my recording tools.
I have iniciated this collection in 2007, but I make recordings since 1998. At the beginning my motivation was just spread out my own material, and little by little other artists used to conventional studios handed up to my free creation.
The format of the disks are variable: mini cd, cd card, mini dvd, cd and dvd. The number of copyes is limited."
Hi would like to say a big thanks to pan&tone for all its hard work and for giving so much to circuit bending.

Quad box

Say hi and welcome to new collaborators

2008-02-26T21:54:00.004Z

yes beep glitch its proud to present Pan&tone and Sascha renner as two new collaborators for beep glitch blog.
First Pan&tone is an artist from brazil that explores circuit bending, he also as done some great workshops (wich as been pulicated here ), you can see the work of Pan&tone
here (Pan&tone website)
here (Pan&tone myspace)
SubtleNoizeMaker aka sascha renner is our second colaborator he as some great gadgets and also really beutifull designs too (expect great posts from sascha)he is also a circuit bending artist and you can see info about Sascha
here (Subtlenoizemaker website)
here (subtlenoizemaker myspace)
Also we are thinking of porting beep glitch to a new website full of great stuff, including a online store with you can buy some of the great instruments that you see here weekly, many things to come for the future, stay tuned.

Bruce haack

2008-02-21T14:57:00.004Z

"bruce´s world was private, and he was such a private thing"this is the beguining of the bruce haack documentary, simply amazing and so way ahead of us all.
"an interview with Philip Anagnos Director of "Haack: The King Of Techno"

FEATURING: bruce haack, esther nelson, praxiteles pandel, chris kachulis, starchildren, jean jacques perrey, money mark (beastie boys), mark oliver everett (eels), mouse on mars, cut chemist, peanut butter wolf, tipsy, dj me dj you, anubian lights, mister rogers (pbs), garry moore (i've got a secret), russell simmons (def jam)"

Bruce haack the movie
Vide bruce haack

Grooverider in jail

2008-02-21T14:45:00.003Z

Hi this is sad news, i always been a fan of grooverider, and seen a couple of shows in lisbon, it seems that grooverider as been arrested with the possesion of cannabis in dubai, and he is facing 4 years of jail.
Please if you like grooverider as much as me send it a letter of support he will need it.

Grooverider article on the guardian
Dubai and tony blair

$20 midi synth

2008-02-02T15:28:00.000Z

midi controlled cmos diy synth (prototype):
a cheap diy instrument controlled by ableton live.

Found this one browsing em411.

em411

Vid

Bending Documentary

2008-02-02T15:06:00.000Z

Some people call it "electronic folk art" or a regular-people's entree' into electronic music. Enthusiasts call it circuit-bending: opening up discarded electronic teaching toys, musical keyboards and talking animals to reveal their circuitry, then re-wiring the circuits to make sounds the original designers never imagined.

Just look at those keyboards sitting there waiting to be bent.

Vid

Colaborators

2008-01-14T18:52:00.000Z

Beep glitch is looking for colaborators.
We are looking for people you can focus on exprimental software and also hardware circuit bending and some new ideas.
So if you whant to be part of this email me.
Have fun
Trully

Instruments by Panetone

2008-01-14T18:36:00.001Z

Cristiano Rosa aka Panetone as some really great instruments that you want to check out.
Also hes making a effort to bring Circuit bending in Brazil to the knowledge of people , and so far he as secede.
He had done a lot of workshops in Rio de Janeiro and the feedback from the presents its just great.
So be sure to check is website regularly.
So back to the instruments.
1-we have this modular circuit bending machine (i hope im right)
2-joystick greenbox (its a beauty ins it ?)
3-the panetone touch one v2 (i think this is kinda cracklebox, but im not sure)

He as videos on is blog too and a lot more instruments.

Panetone site

P.s- Stay tunned for more Brazilian workshops.

Tristram Cary Electronic Composer

2008-01-14T18:25:00.000Z

I just have found 3 videos on youtube about Tristram Cary.
Tristram its themind behind Dr who series in Uk.
This superb documentary focus on electronic music and electronic instruments and avant garde sounds that he produce for dr who.
"Tristram Cary - Pioneering UK Electronic Composer Electronic Music Studios avant-garde Peter Zinovieff Dr Who VCS3 Brian Eno Hawkwind Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon Emperor Machine
Roxy Music BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Tangerine Dream Hawkwind Tim Blake Jean Michel Jarre Kraftwerk David Cockerell"

Hope you all enjoy this

Tristram cary vid 1
Tristram cary vid 2
Tristram cary vid 3

The Death of High Fidelity

2007-12-31T03:57:00.000Z

According to this post on rolling stone music quality its getting worse and worse by the minute, this is due to mp3 and low quality music engineers.
This as to do something with bending and the quality of the instruments we all produce and build, are they really great when it cames to sound quality, and what can we do to improve this same quality.
The question its for the new year that approaches in high speed.
So HAPPY NEW 2008

The Death of High Fidelity

Via RollingStone

P.s Sorry to you all for the bad images in the last post, it was our fault and we shall be uping some new ones.

AEE blog

2007-12-14T14:22:00.000Z

Its another great resource for all circuit benders out there.
"This blog shows project documentations of various projects done by members of association of experimental electronics. Some projects are very easy and suitable for beginners, some are only for more advanced solderers."

AEE

David Tudor

2007-12-14T14:14:00.000Z

David Tudor is without question one of the premier figures in the performance of new music since the middle of this century. As a pianist, Tudor gave highly acclaimed first performances of works by contemporary composers Pierre Boulez, Earle Brown, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Christian Wolff, Stephan Wolpe, and La Monte Young, among others. As a composer, Tudor chose specific electronic components and their interconnections to define both composition and performance drawing upon resources that were both flexible and complex.

David Tudor
P.s be shure to check the instruments and diagrams page, lots of cool stuff in there

Drum machine´s and youtube circuit bending stuff

2007-11-15T14:47:00.000Z

I´ve just saw a post on create digital music about a circuit bend Linn drum II.
Im totally amaze by machine drums, ive a few myself and ive decided to search a little bit further and see what i can find, so i came up with a lot fun stuff.
First its Sakata DPMi really dont knows this machine, but it got the "looks" it was made in 1983 and there are still some around ebay.
Circuit bending noize box .
Autodrummer v1, autodrummer v2 and rotodrummer simply amaizing.
broken sword drum machine lots of stuff in there but cool sounds for electronica.

Aki Onda

2007-11-09T22:37:00.000Z

Saturday ive played with my band "Tsuki" in a venue here in portugal, we are schedule to play at around 11, and then Aki Onda will play after us.
Alltrought i don't talk much about concerts and artists, ive decided to make an exception because it was a marvelous concert by Aki Onda with loads of beautifull pieces.
He normally plays k7 with a lot of effects in between, but ive notice in the concert that he is in total control of the crowd "i mean total control of the music and therefore the crowd", ive have some moments of total trance (really its true).
So im just posting this for you guys to take a look of hes website and hes music.

Aki Onda

The hydra effect, Oink death and the industry.

2007-11-09T22:01:00.000Z

The recente news talk about a large operation that had dismantle Oink (who was this large torrent place for music).
A couple of hours later two others torrent sites were created (The hydra effect as they call it).
Ive focus my attention into this and ive found a post talking about this on other related subject, read carefully because i think in my opinion all this is true and we are seeing some major changes in the music business.

""When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.""
"For quite a long time I've been intending to post some sort of commentary on the music industry - piracy, distribution, morality, those types of things. I've thought about it many times, but never gone through with it, because the issue is such a broad, messy one - such a difficult thing to address fairly and compactly. I knew it would result in a rambly, unfocused commentary, and my exact opinion has teetered back and forth quite a bit over the years anyway. But on Monday, when I woke up to the news that Oink, the world famous torrent site and mecca for music-lovers everywhere, had been shut down by international police and various anti-piracy groups, I knew it was finally time to try and organize my thoughts on this huge, sticky, important issue."

Read all

Via Deamonbaby

Favourite free vst eztravaganza

2007-10-25T18:38:00.000+01:00

PanEtone board

2007-10-13T14:03:00.000+01:00

My friend PanEtone as send me a schematic witch he will use on his workshop.
Its a simple one but a lot of soul in there.
Here is the topic on the workshop.
-Building your first oscillator
-basic electronic components
-have fun with the vactrol synth (also building one)
-basic soldering
-altering the pitch and the clock on a toy
-amplifying and distorting
-playing with body contacts and instruments.
In the final they will play a concert with the instruments build during the workshop.

Sounds like a lot of fun

About the board "you are viewing the component side"- just copy the image and glue to a piece of card them trim and make holes for the components, insert the components and solder together.
For the chips (ic) you can use 40106, 4016 or 4093.

Max/Msp 5

2007-10-13T13:53:00.000+01:00

Looks nice, sounds nice, but i will wait for information about that cooperation between cycling74 and ableton live...

"The first thing you might notice about Max 5 is the new look of the objects. We've redecorated with a new appearance to ensure you can immediately identify the basic elements of a patch. It doesn't try to be photorealistic, primarily because the interface scales so you can look at a patch at any resolution. That includes zooming out as well as zooming in."
"Moreover, we've created a new system of default colors. The system allows you to change the colors of objects that haven't been set to any particular special color value. This means that you can change all the colors to a new appearance, but you don't have to force those colors on anyone else who might look at your patch. Similarly, someone else's color scheme won't be imposed on you when you open their patches. One reason we implemented this system was to allow you to change color defaults when lighting conditions change. Bright clear colors on a blistering white background might be appropriate for a sunny day in LA, but if you're on stage in New York, you might want white on black. Watch how easy it is to change defaults merely by selecting a pre-configured file."

Max/Msp 5

PanEtone workshop

2007-10-05T16:20:00.000+01:00

My friend from brazil PanEtone is making a new workshop this time in Rio de Janeiro.
He had also be interviewed by Getlofi you can read it here
Also see PanEtone myspace and check is instruments.
We are also thinking in a new form to help new people into circuit bending, also he features in the MTV brazil publication.
I will give more info on the workshop and projects soon.

PanEtone myspace
Interview in getlofi

And, before music there is...computers

2007-10-05T16:01:00.000+01:00

At the age of 17 Raymond kurtweil went to a show to demonstrate an amazing electric composing machine that he as invented.

Raymond kurtzweil

PCB creation

2007-10-05T14:18:00.000+01:00

No more lazer printers or expensive methods to pcb creation, this is very simple and well explained according to Tom Gootee.
Here is how.
"The procedure is simple. You need some Jet Print brand Photo paper, glossy. The stuff I bought was Jet Print Multi-Project Photo Paper, 07033-0. Jet Print color codes their inkjet photo papers... look for the stuff with the green band. About $0.75 per sheet here in Texas.

The next step is to produce a positive image of the traces you want, using almost any editor, CAD program, etc. The image must print to the exact scale needed. "

PCB creation

New CIRCUIT BENDING homemade Store

2007-09-08T16:42:00.000+01:00

After this long period without no posts (vacation)ive come with a clean mind and spirit ready to face the problems with the modernized world :)
And ive come with some new ideas ready to roll.
Well let me tell you more about this, im preparing for circuit bent your stuff, after a
period of adjustment im now producing, music instruments, modified pedals, toys and everything that comes in the way..
Ive made some stuff for friends in myself in a recently past, and i really like the idea of custom instruments.
I will also open a myspace with all the info very soon.
For practical info here is an example of how its going to work..
If you live in portugal you can contact me by phone, but if you live outside portugal, and want me to made something (lets say a bent toy, a modified instrument or pedal) you can send it to me (you will pay for post, if its something that you want me to bend)and then when its made i will send to you (and i will pay for posting charges).
I think this is a good way of people have an interest's in circuit bending.
I will post more info soon.
Of course if this interest´s you please send me an email, and we will discuss you new little toy.
All the instruments should feature in this blog with pictures and sounds.
This is a part of my instruments and stuff that i do for friends.
VOLTRON
KOPITO
LIL SID
LIL SID WITH DOOZERS
SPEAK&MATH
SPEAK&READ
SCRATCHER

Im officially on vacations

2007-08-17T15:00:00.000+01:00

Yes thats right, in one or two days im going to spent my vacations with my girlfriend in Azores (Portugal).
In the mean time (since im going to be out for two weeks)i will post a variety of links
of things that interested me right now (this may keep you busy for some time...i hope).
Bookmart
Greyloge
erstwhilerecords
Runme
Fora
Voltage
Vice
Blackle
Em411
Computervideogames
Planet-mu
A-cam
Generator X
Studiotoolz
Showstudio
Ted
Yay hooray

Algorithms that generate music

2007-08-17T14:43:00.000+01:00

Im not sure were to begin with this one.
Everyone is use to playing with software, the software trough algorithms is capable of reproducing sounds and manipulate audio.
This post takes you to some basic forms of producing music, rather than playing with software, the following links show some stuff ( really cool stuff) of people working with one´s and zeros.

Alex Mclean
Slub
Karplus-Strong Algorithm
Runme

Daft Hands Punk Fingers

2007-08-08T01:50:00.000+01:00

Everyone is talking about Daft Punk, i really don't know why.
So here is a Daft Hand to cheer everyone day.

Daft Hands
Oh and some gear pron of Daft Punk too (thx to Sandeep Kumar´s Blog)

Good copy bad copy

2007-08-01T01:30:00.000+01:00

Here is a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture .
And its free.
"That said, here's a bit about the economy behind Good Copy Bad Copy. We sold the film to the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) who have been the first, and until now the only TV station, to air it. This money covered about one fourth of the total costs, so obviously we need to sell it to other TV broadcasters world wide to make ends meet. If you want to help us with this, please suggest your local broadcaster to get in touch with us."
In the meantime here is the torrent for the x-vid version of the movie

Good copy bad copy
Torrent x-vid

Hardware Top 10

2007-07-24T18:29:00.000+01:00

Im my struggle to create music ive acquire trough this years a lot of hardware equipment.
Back in 1996, ive begun to buy stuff, i was what do you call a hardware freak, ive sold a few and buy a few more , i also have filter my taste and know i buy only the stuff that its more important to my work.
So here is a list of my favorites buys.
1 hardware Synth : and the winner is.....Acceess virus B, im very proud of this machine it was my first synth and the one you as most powerful sound design.
Its capabilities, easy to use, great interface, sounds really tasty, the envelopes the lfos everything its great in this piece of hardware, if you see one on ebay buy it because its unique.
2 hardware synth : Yamaha FS1R a.k.a the drone machine, its a formante synthesizer and the sounds you could dream for days on a single patch.
The interface its not so great, but who cares anyway, the sounds of this little piece are full of ambient escapes, a must have.
3 hardware : MPC2000 XL, i really dont know what to say about this, for me its a brilliant conception between audio and midi production, even today i learn new features about the MPC and its sequencing system, one of the best things invented.
4 hardware synth : Sidstation, this little synth (no more then a box of chocolates)features are quite unique, first the chip the MOS 6581 is a legend in is time, then the idea of putting this inside a box with real time knobs ready to assign and to play, its just a lot of fun, and it sounds like no other of its kind.
5 hardware drum machine : Machinedrum another one from elektron, this guys from elektron are "packing fire" they have 3 machines in the market (Sidstation, Machinedrum; Monomachine) and all of them are really fantastic. but let focus on this one the Macinedrum.
First its a drum synth with lots of cool things like the "parameter locks" or the lfo that let you assign the lfo rate etc... to any setting in the synth like the pitch, delay etc..
The sounds inside this one are really great with a lot of kits ready to deploy :)
Any other words for this... Magnificent.
6 hardware soundcard : for those you use laptop,desktop,pc or mac the hawser its just one...Hammerfall multiface.
7 hardware microphone : Beringher B-2 PRO , nothing much to say about this microphone other then its great for all kinds of work, and i mean really all kinds, i do a lot of field recording with it and its great (big but great)i do my own samples record all my acoustic instruments (guitar, sax cello)with it and he performs and delivers like no other.
8 hardware effects : Shermann Filterbank 1 , it was pricy when i bought it, but it worth any euro that i gave for him.
The filters on the Shermann are great for live improvising music and also make my guitar sounds like Steve Vai (im not a fan of Steve Vai but he is the guitar master:)), inn appreciation this is one of the best filter that i came across, the envelopes and the lfos have a quality that you might want to have one of this baby's.
9 hardware synth : Cheetah MS6 (rare) and its all about analog monophonic synthesizer.
Ive bought this one 10 years ago in a flea market for 30 euros, it souds rich, fat,and warm and all my work passes trough him.
The interface its bad and also the design looks terrible, but the guts of this one delivers one hell of a sound, the bass section are quite interesting with a lot vca´s and lfos working togheter for a unique sound, its great also for ambient stuff.
One of the best buys.
10 hardware vocoder : MAM VF11 ,if you like robots and star wars effects and crunchy beat this vocoder/11EQ its for you (but im pretty shore that they don't manufacture this anymore)i dont sing but i pass all my beats drums trough it, the 11 channel equalizer gives a unique sound to my music and i really enjoy working with it.

So thats it TOP 10 hope you all enjoy my choices.

Squarepusher interview 1996

2007-07-20T03:05:00.000+01:00

Im a big fan of Squarepusher and ive found this amazing interview 1996.
He talks about Herbie Hancock, Buddy Rich etc... seriously you have to see it.
I like when an artist talks about is influences and is stuff, studio, music etc.. its really a gift.

Video 1
video 2
video 3 (tecktv interview 2001)

Pneumasth

2007-07-18T00:35:00.000+01:00

Pete blasser is a force of nature, ive to pay my tribute to him and also thank him for the creativity that he puts on all is works, really is amazing.
He brings a new design and instrument its the Pneumasth a sort of hybrid analog guitar.
""This is the prototypical model of a Namastitar, an analog/string hybrid. The brass frets, besides setting the intervals of the acoustic string tones, are also nodes of an oscillator. So by playing the fretboardyou articulate string tone as well as oscillator tone. This oscillator makes a ring-modulation circuit with the sound of the string so you have complex articulated tones formed out of plucked string, as well as smooth oscillator tones made by pressing on the bridge (like the sidrassi organ somewhat). There are four knobs: oscillator basis frequency, fretboard convolution, mix of affected and clean string sounds, and master volume. The fretboard convolution knob controls how the oscillator responds to the fret scale- going upwards or downwards or upwards-downwards.""

Pneumasth
mp3 1
mp3 2

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

2007-07-18T00:25:00.000+01:00

First, ive been with too much work lately, also my laptop rhapsody continues, so im sorry for not posting as much i would like.
My life in a bush of ghosts is a participative work with samples from brian eno ready to download, mix and share.
Ive post a few already and the quality of the work its simply astonishing.

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts came out in 1981. Over the last decades, hundreds of artists in genres ranging from DJs to alternative to electronic have all borrowed from its ideas and claimed its influence. It is now being re-issued in a beautiful new package, with extensive liner notes and photos, and featuring 7 previously unreleased tracks from the original album and a film by influential artist Bruce Conner.

"I grew up as a David Byrne fan. I admired his work with Talking Heads and those records then led me to 'My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts' where I discovered Brian Eno's work. The collaboration between Byrne and Eno inspired me to think outside the box and opened my head up to new musical and most importantly non-musical experiences."

Hank Shocklee — Producer (Public Enemy)

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Abletonator

2007-07-04T04:22:00.000+01:00

Yet another controller, this one its only for live (ableton).
Yes controller is cool, but whats wrong with the mouse (for me the best controller in the world)
I dont have many info about this one, i first see this in this blog (fatos fidedignos), and ive beguin to search a little bit and ive found a video in ( futurmusic ).
Like i said theres lack of info in this controller.

Video

Extreme Wood bending

2007-07-01T15:17:00.001+01:00

Im in a process to build another music, bending synthesizer and im thinking wood for the case, simply because i think its the most beautiful of all materials.
In my search ive found this "extreme wood bending" the name its very appealing (circuit bending with wood, or some sort of it).
For everyone who are reading this blog here some more info about the stolen laptop and yet another bad news, my other laptop just died (burn motherboard), whats the chance of that in only a week?
SO here is the full story of wood bending.
""VICTORIA, B.C., CANADA--Chris Mroz tied the thin length of "compressed wood" into a knot and passed out another 50 sample pieces so the crowd could give it a try. You really had to bend it for yourself before you could believe his claim of the machine that can make hardwood lumber as flexible as rubber.

Dressed in a polo shirt and slacks, Mroz was demonstrating his bendable wood last week at the Furniture Society Conference here, and more than 100 furniture makers looked on with interest.

Eugene Rubin, a woodworker from Victoria, said he can already imagine uses for compressed wood. Rubin makes traditional bent willow chairs in the Adirondack tradition. "I see this as an opportunity to build my chairs with new materials," he said.

How it works
The machine used to create the bendable wood is called a Compwood machine, and it was developed in the 1980s by the Danish Technical Institute. The patented lengthwise compression process breaks the lignum bonds in the wood essentially making it flexible in any direction. Mroz purchased his Compwood machine from a lumber mill that produced bendable wood until it went out of business."""

Read the rest here
Thanks to Tauton fine woodworking
Eugene Rubin

The Revolution of Greed and the Music Industry

2007-06-25T02:41:00.000+01:00

Hi to all this is my first post in 2 weeks, why? let me explain to you what happend .
First my laptop was stolen with all my info, songs, projects, media, masters you name it, and ive been trying to get the data back (no luck on that) ive been posting posters in my area tolding what happened but like i said before (no luck).
The second its ive done a huge effort to give a workshop of circuit bending and that wasted all my time, it was two long days of work, but it was successful i will posting some pictures soon.
It was two long weeks, with some depressing stuff in between, with brings me back to the topic of this post, if you like electronic music and some of its genres you sure have heard Sublight Records (venetian snares, enduser, donna summer, richard divine and so many others)well its going to close.....and why the hawser its right here.
""The Revolution of Greed and the Music Industry
By: Benn Jordan

A decade ago, while being an amateur musician and daytime computer technician, a tech-savvy friend of mine called me raving about MP3s. He even sent me some files on my painfully slow dialup connection. He spoke of groups on BBS systems and IRC that were ripping and trading albums. I eventually figured out what they technically were, and how they worked. The technology impressed me, but I didn’t worry about it either. I thought to myself:

“Surely nobody is going to spend 40 hours downloading an album at a horrible audio quality.”

Of course I didn’t speculate how advanced the internet would become 10 years later. Terabytes, iPods, wireless networking, and broadband internet…I just didn’t have the foresight. Those who did either fought it or became millionaires.

Now before you start getting excited about being part of a “music revolution”, I’m going to share my rendition of it, which isn’t going to be inspirational in the least bit. The point of all it all is, well, that nearly everyone involved is unethical and greedy. From the largest corporation all the way down to the consumer.""

Read the rest of it

Workshop Circuit Bending

2007-06-11T14:01:00.000+01:00

Olá a todos, no próximo dia 14 e 15 de junho na Z.D.B a info segue em baixo, despachem-se porque as inscrições são limitadas.

Workshop Circuit Bending
Circuit Bending é a criação de som através da manipulação de dispositivos áudio electrónicos de baixa voltagem, tais como pedais de guitarra, brinquedos de criança ou alguns sintetizadores pequenos, com o intuito de criar novos sons e gerar novas aproximações à estética musical.
Enfatizando as técnicas de randomização, o Circuit Bending é normalmente associado á música de ruído (noise), embora hoje em dia seja utilizado por muitos compositores de música contemporânea. A sua facilidade de execução permite aos seus executanes uma imensa liberdade criativa na criação de novos sons, sem necessitar de profundos conhecimentos em electrónica.

14 Junho: das 14h00 às 21h00
15 Junho: das 14h00 às 18h00

Coordenação: Ricardo Costa

Material necessário: ferro de soldar, chaves variadas, pilhas AA, alicates variados.
Material para bending disponibilizado pela organização.

Informações e inscrições:
Ricardo Costa: 93 3737246 | ricardo_costa@vianw.pt
ZDB: 21 3430205 | muzique@zedosbois.org

Valor da inscrição: 50€.

Z.D.B
Ricardo Costa

Electronic Musician's Emergency Adapters

2007-06-09T15:08:00.000+01:00

Or the Electronic music aid.
Ive post this because last night i was playing in a small club here in lisbon and i forgot two cables that are indispensable (i wish i had the EMEA :), but everything went well after that problem, but its a good thing to have around specially when you are playing live.
"When Radio Shack is closed, you'll feel confident that you can handle any venue's crazy sound system setup with this thorough set of audio adapters chosen specifically for the needs of the electronic musician. From the ubiquitous 1/8" to RCA adapter common to almost every laptop set (laptop headphones out to club mixer in) to the less-common-but-still-essential XLR adapters (for dealing with stage breakout boxes), you can feel confident that your sound will reach the people, no matter what the promoter or sound guy has overlooked."

Electronic Musician emergency adapters
Horsa Musician survival kit

Show me your homemade instrument

2007-06-05T22:35:00.000+01:00

I found this incredible post on youtube, this guy is asking for people to post homade instruments and so far he as got a lot of replies and there are some quite good, you have to see all the follow ups to see all the instruments so im going to link some of my favorites.

fav 1
fav 2
fav 3
fav 4
fav 5

Microsoft Surface

2007-06-01T14:42:00.000+01:00

Theres a new kid in town and its name is Surface.
Microsoft announces today this interacting table (a little like rec table and others)
First it will be put on the market mainly for restaurants,hotels, retail, but im thinking about music and entertainment markets will be a quick step.

"Surface computing is a major advancement that moves beyond the traditional user interface to a more natural
way of interacting with digital content. Microsoft Surface™, Microsoft Corp.’s fi rst commercially available
surface computer, breaks down the traditional barriers between people and technology to provide effortless
interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects instead of a
mouse and keyboard. Although customers will be able to interact with Surface in select restaurants, hotels, retail
establishments and public entertainment venues by the end of the year, the product has been years in the making
at Microsoft.
An Idea Inspired by Cross-Division Collaboration
In 2001, Stevie Bathiche of Microsoft Hardware and Andy Wilson of
Microsoft Research began working together on various projects that
took advantage of their complementary expertise in the areas of
hardware and software. In one of their regular brainstorm sessions,
they started talking about an idea for an interactive table that could
understand the manipulation of physical pieces. Although there were
related efforts happening in academia, Bathiche and Wilson saw the
need for a product where the interaction was richer and more intuitive,
and at the same time practical for everyone to use.
This conversation was the beginning of an idea that would later result
in the development of Surface, and over the course of the following year, various people at Microsoft involved
in developing new product concepts, including the gaming-specifi c PlayTable, continued to think through the
possibilities and feasibility of the project. Then in October 2001 a virtual team was formed to fully pursue bringing
the idea to the next stage of development; Bathiche and Wilson were key members of the team.
Humble Beginnings on an IKEA Table
In early 2003, the team presented the idea to Bill Gates, Microsoft
chairman, in a group review. Gates instantly liked the idea and
encouraged the team to continue to develop their thinking. The virtual
team expanded, and within a month, through constant discussion and
brainstorming, the fi rst humble prototype was born and nicknamed T1.
The model was based on an IKEA table with a hole cut in the top and
a sheet of architect vellum used as a diffuser. The evolution of Surface
had begun. A variety of early applications were also built, including
pinball, a photo browser and a video puzzle. As more applications were
developed, the team saw the value of the surface computer beyond
simply gaming and began to favor those applications that took advantage
of the unique ability of Surface to recognize physical objects placed on the
table. The team was also beginning to realize that surface computing could be applied to a number of different
embodiments and form factors.
Over the next year, the team grew signifi cantly, including the addition of Nigel Keam, initially software
development lead and later architect for Surface, who was part of the development team eventually tasked with
taking the product from prototype to a shipping product. Surface prototypes, functionality and applications were
continually refi ned. More than 85 early prototypes were built for use by software developers, hardware developers
and user researchers.
T1 prototype
“Tub” model prototype"

Surface website with videos, news and a press release

The Beat Blenders and Tecdhweeb

2007-05-30T01:46:00.000+01:00

I i fall in love the first time i saw beatblenders and i thought that i might bend it, but i never bought one (but the idea was there).
Today i was reviewing some comments in this blog and i find board scams, and a lot of info on this beauty's trough techdweeb (seems that BT "tance artist" as bought one" good for him i suppose ).
So here goes the info
Beat Blender
Techdweeb
Bend Blenders
Boards Scams

The Bend Blenders are too cool, and the designs are really great

BugBrand Drone Machine

2007-05-28T18:22:00.000+01:00

Bugbrand its one of my favorites companies of electronic instruments, today i went to they website and found this "the drone machine", it looks cool and the sound its just astonishing, well check for yourself,
"Looking a bit like a box for make-up, the new Drone Machine is powerful-but-portable fully modular synth and processing device in a compact carry case.

Featuring:

* Audio input with Envelope Follower - input preamp with variable decay enevelope follower (EnvFlw based on SynTom ideas)
* Ring Modulator - using the AD633 multiplier chip
* 3 x Voltage Controlled Oscillators (plus Low Freq Osc) - three powerful VCOs (based around the Thomas Henry XR2206 VCO) that can also run at low freqs for modulation, offering tri / sin / sqr waveforms, plenty of modulation and sync function.
* Voltage Controlled Filter - state variable (Lo / Band / Hi response) resonant filter with modulation and two audio inputs
* Digi-delay - based around the PT2399 digital delay chip that can be cranked down into very noised-up territories.
* 2 x Voltage Inverters - for audio or CVs
* Output Mixer - 3 channels mixed to mono output"

There are some videos too of the Drone Machine in action
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3

Bugbrand

Cylob live dj-set@Xltronic

2007-05-23T14:52:00.000+01:00

Ive wet my pants.
Im a huge Cylob fan and it looks that he is going to bring a special guest, (ive wet my pants again).

"Just a small pre-announcement...... Spread the word!"

What? Cylob on Xltronic radio. Yay!
When? Thursday, May 24th
Where? Xltronic Radio
Why? 'cos Cylob rocks!

Xltronic

Corrupt™ data corruption software

2007-05-23T14:38:00.000+01:00

The post as payed off, the first Data bending i publish here on beepglitch, ive read about this trought reed gazalla and i was very intrested.sure to say that corrupt as came to me...

"Corrupt™ was first built with Proce55ing. The corruption process start by reading the binary of an image file [JPG or GIF], then some bytes are swaps [the number of replacement is a random value from 1 to 20]. The file is then "saved as" a new document. Depending on the number replacement and of the original compression, the image will have a completely different and unpredictable aesthetics. So from a single image the program can generate millions of corrupted versions. And because it is a real corruption system that damages the binaries of a file, some of the results can’t be showed because they are too damaged... The project is now available online for anyone who desire to corrupt his own JPG images.
This PHP version has been realised in collaboration with BlueMelon, thanks to them."

Corrupt project

Interview: APHEX TWIN

2007-05-23T14:32:00.000+01:00

Kludge Magazine caught up with Richard D. James at All Tomorrow's Party earlier this year.
Juicy .....
"It is around 4 P.M. and I'm walking around the All Tomorrow's Festival lobby, waiting for Eddie Vedder to get on stage. A sea of people is around me, but nothing is to prepare me for who I'm about to see. You can imagine it, can you? In fact, I'm sure those who praise the genius behind the IDM/Braindance genre have imagined it many times."

Read the rest here
Klugge

Send me your info

2007-05-14T17:07:00.000+01:00

Hi to all.
Ive been running this blog for almost two years now, and im quite happy how its going.
Im also always looking for information to put here, and i pass a long time in front of the computer searching for articles that might interest you, so all the readers if you have something that you think its fun to put on BeepGlith send it to me.
Ive also want to address my simpaty to all those in 2 years of existence browse this blog and have fun.
I also want to thanks getlofi for the big boost and all those bloges that link to here, for all those people a big thank you.

Circuit Bends by Fishtape

2007-05-14T16:55:00.000+01:00

I was browsing and i found this really huge directory of bends with a lot of schematics for speak - spells and others from Texas instruments, its very well documented with photos and its pretty easy to bent any speak - spell.
I don't have anymore info on this all i know its the name of this website (Fishtape).
So have fun
"hese board scans and wire plans are all from my personal collection. feel free to link / borrow, but give credit where it's due. all designs original, created through old-school trial and error. though they will work, you are strongly discouraged from just copying these designs, since that takes all the fun / adventure out of bending. blank boards are un-bent."
Fishtape
schematics

Kid Clayton interview

2007-05-14T15:13:00.000+01:00

"Joshua Kit Clayton is a musician, developer and computer programmer who develops Jitter for Max/MSP. Jitter "extends the Max/MSP programming environment to support realtime manipulation of video, 3D graphics and other data sets... Jitter abstracts all data as multidimensional matrices, so objects that process images can also process audio, volumetric data, 3d vertices, or any numerical information you can get into the computer." (0) As a musician, Joshua Kit Clayton moved towards including realtime video in performances of his musics, musics that can be variously categorized as electronic, laptop [+/or] glitch. recording under the name Kit Clayton, Clayton tours internationally + has released music through Orthlorng Musork (the label he owned + operated) as well as through Cycling '74 (the company for whom Clayton works developing Jitter). Jitter's introduction in 2003 contributed significantly to the expansion of cinematic approaches to realtime audio + video, especially appealing to developers already familiar with Cycling '74's software product Max/MSP."

All this thanks to Criticalart that made this interview with Kid Clayton

This conversation is divided in 10 parts of audio.
1
2
3
4
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7
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Golan Levin: Experimental audio-visual artist

2007-05-07T17:24:00.000+01:00

Who should see this,Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers TED is a great way to share and to listen the most bright thinkers in the world.
The theme Ideas worth spreading its a great way to start participating on this.

"Having worked as an academic at MIT and a researcher specializing in computer technology and software engineering, Golan Levin now spends most of his time working as a performance artist. Rest assured his education hasn't gone to waste, however, as Levin blends high tech and customized software programs to create his own extraordinary audio and visual compositions. The results are inordinately experimental sonic and visual extravaganzas from the furthest left of the field.

Many of his pieces force audience participation, such as Dialtones: A Telesymphony, a concert from 2001 entirely composed of the choreographed ringtones of his audience. Regularly exhibiting pieces in galleries around the world, and also working as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Levin is unapologetically pushing boundaries to define a brave new world of what is possible.

Via TED
Golan levin Video
Golan levin Homepage

Jonh Cage

2007-04-30T15:32:00.000+01:00

What a pearl...
"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.

While treating Cage as something of a freak, the show also treats him fairly reverentially, cancelling the regular game show format to allow Cage the chance to perform his entire piece. "

thanks to wfmu´s blog
Jonh Cage video

Video bending "karl Klompt"

2007-04-25T15:31:00.000+01:00

Today ive dedicated my time to video bending.
Ive found karl kompt web site months ago and ive decided that some day i will post something about this amazing resource.
In is website you will find bending schematics, links, pictures and a huge collection of all kind of video mixers.

"Karl Klomp, media-artist - vj - theater technician ('79 - NL). His research focus on live audiovisual expressions and interfacing. With a fasination for glitch-art, visual glitch, video interruption or hyperkinetic audio visuals, he deals with video circuit bending, frame grabbing, mircoprocessing, hardware interfacing, max/assambly programming. Together with Tom Verbruggen (Toktek) they played their live av performance mnk_toktek across the country. Bookings via AllesLos agency. Also doing audio/video circuit bending workshop, often in collabaration with Gijs Gieskes via AllesLos. Vj-ing since 2001 for Lo Mechanik [electronica collective/label]. In 2005 he collaborated with dePonk collective, international holding company of artists."

Karl kompt

My latest...kopito

2007-04-14T00:44:00.000+01:00

Hello i just finish "kopito" its a drum machine based on rollz5 by pete b.
It took me almost 2 months to solder all the parts together, and believe me it wasn't easy.
My second step regarding this machine is building a sequencer for it, so stay tuned.
here are some pictures.
mp3 here

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Low Tech Sensors

2007-04-13T15:58:00.000+01:00

Low Tech was a collaborative research project to develop a suite of low-tech sensors and actuators that might be useful for artists and architects working with interactive environments. With this project we hoped to consolidate a number of different approaches we had found ourselves taking in our own work and develop both a "kit-of-parts" and a more conceptual framework for producing such works.

We were certainly not alone in hacking technology to suit our purposes and we realised that it would be very useful for others in our fields to have a good outline of this approach and indication of the types of devices they might use.

Now that the report has been released publicly and we have had many downloads (almost 25,000 at last count!) and several workshops, we are providing this wiki so that others can share, contribute and learn from similar projects by anyone else who would like to contribute.

Low Tech Sensors
wiki
instrumensts using lowtech sensors

Dance Backpack

2007-04-13T15:47:00.000+01:00

We have developed a backpack, that turns the dance of the person wearing it into music, a biofeedback instrument. We have tested and documented on 20 people from the streets of Vienna and Budapest. Something that today is more and more defined by remote stations, is generated by the physical movement of your own body.

Dance Backpack

Living Interface

2007-04-11T00:05:00.000+01:00

The topic of the project works between interactiondesign and the biology.It concerns the communication between animal and the machine. The animal represents the user of a system and has the possibility to intervene. The User of the System are the so-called „Daphnien“. These organisms are placed under a microscope and form an interface in the system cycle. Thus they have access to all processes in the computer and are able to manipulate them. The animal communicates with the computer and the borders between technology and the animal world blurs.

Living Interface

Bent 2007

2007-04-10T23:56:00.000+01:00

Well the bent festival is in its fourth year ...congratulations for all the people involved in this (i wish living in the us).
Here it goes the L.A installation begins these week so hurry up.
"The Bent Festival is a three day event celebrating the art of modifying existing circuits (and creating new ones!) for the purpose of creating music, art, and mischief. There are performances from musicians who incorporate these circuits into their live act, art installations made from these circuits, and workshops showing you how to do it yourself. The festival is all about reappropriating existing technologies - hacking apart old toys, building new ones from old parts - to create something fun and new and STRANGE.

This year we are expanding the festival to three cities across the US and have more artists and performers from around the globe participating than ever before. So come out and say hello. "

Bent 2007

Graphite Record sequencer

2007-04-08T14:47:00.001+01:00

Well seems that getlofi as posted this already, but caleb as posted more videos in is blog, im very impressed y the graphite record and im planing to do a piece of mine using the same design as caleb (i hope you don't mind).
Here is the videos and a brief description of the graphite record.
"Here are four rough clips of the Graphite Record Player in action. My friend Robin rocked out the first 3 disks that are showcased. I am using a simple 555 oscillator kit that I got online. The pitch is being changed by the amount of graphite connecting the inside and outside rings; more graphite lines makes a lower pitch. It looks like there are multiple connection points on the arm, but I'm only using the inside and outside points to brush the surface of the disks."

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Graphite Record sequencer

transacoustic

2007-04-07T22:50:00.000+01:00

the institute for transacoustic research (german: institut für transakustische forschung, iftaf) was founded in 1998 to define and research transacoustics (german: transakustik). a crucial characteristic of transacoustic research is its interdisciplinary approach; it carries out science by means of art and art by means of science; methods and settings from both areas are combined to arrive at unique lines of connection and division.

transacoustic research is concerned with the peripheral effects and tangential areas of acoustics, with their borders to other areas of research. these contours and definitional borders are necessarily blurred and vague.

the question of the essence of transacoustics/transakustik is as impossible to answer as the question of art or philosophy's essence. the success, productivity and efficiency of transacoustic research do not depend on finding an answer to this question.

transacoustics/transakustik as such, does not exist; there is only transacoustic research, which constantly circles its imaginary core and thereby arrives at the most diverse results and realizations.

transacoustic

Connecting a Joystick to MaxMSP/Jitter

2007-04-07T22:43:00.000+01:00

Max is all about making connections. The Making Connections series of tutorials will introduce you to new connections you can make between MaxMSP and the outside world. This tutorial, the first in the series, will discuss the use of HID devices such as USB game controllers as gestural interfaces for your Max patches.

Connecting a Joystick to MaxMSP/Jitter

Max/Msp roundup

2007-03-22T15:27:00.000Z

Its the first time doing a roundup of applications for Max/msp.
Ive work hard to came up with a top ten applications for Max/Msp, so here goes

1 lloopp "lloopp is a software written in max/msp, designed for live-improvising.
lloopp is freeware, open source, please note its copyleft.
lloopp is written by artists who use this very software for their performances.
anybody who is into max-programming is invited to join in. refer to the .help-section for building new patches and use our lloopp list for communication. any ideas are welcome as well."

2 gleetchlab2 "Freeware glitch music and sound design authoring suite"

3 irin "Micromontage technique allows the composer to work a musical figure point by point, shaping each sound particle with microscopic precision. The software presented in this paper combines graphic and script editing with algorithmic generation and manipulation of sound sequences. It provides several tools to enhance both creation and organic development of the musical material under this compositional paradigm using a user-friendy visual environment."in studiotoolz

4 forester "A journey into the sonic forest. As you move around the forest your position relative to the trees (the graphic discs) is tracked. This data is used to control the musical parameters of the music."

5 mawe "MaWe is an exclusive, independent, cost free patch designed for Max/MSP environment.
MaWe needs Max/MSP program in full or free version (runtime).
MaWe has been designed as a compositional and performance tool for live audio and video purposes.
MaWe in its modular form can be used on slower and faster machines running different operating systems including MacOs X, Windows XP and MacOs 9 (smaller version of MaWe)."

6 argo "ARGO is made of more than 100 real-time sound synthesis modules. A module is a Max/MSP patch."

7 cooper "The idea was to create a flexible environment which can be controlled from
meta-parameter-levels without loosing direct control of single parameters or
giving responsibility to the computer.
The audio processing is encapsulated into modules, which get connetcted
through a matrix.
Every input a user sends to a module can be recorded in figure files for later
playback.
These figures allow the generation of complex musical structures without the
need to control every single parameter by hand."

8 burn toast "live performance looping system"

9 enord///flux "Enord///Flux creates unpleasant noises and textures by multiplying signals against sine wave oscillators, and thanks to sloppy coding it also tends to rather nastily overdrive everything. This patch is a cleaned up and streamlined version of the core functionality of patches I used extensively on 102x04: As Drifting of Night into Morning, (often in a triangular configuration called DroneTrio.)"

10 autumn "no info on this one the website is in japanese, but its quite good to play around with it"

Tenorion

2007-03-22T15:17:00.000Z

Well finally its is going to be manufactured.
Much we have talk about tenorion but now its a reality.
"Not quite as impressive as the Tenori-on itself though; the brainchild of media artist Toshio Iwai, it consists of a hand-held square panel with a matrix of LED switches. Working with both sound and light, making music becomes a rather more intuitive and immediate interaction between player and instrument - a refreshing counter to the increasing complexity of many modern music tools.

OK - all this sounds very grandiose, but what's it actually like? Well, we found a very happy looking Peter Peck of Yamaha UK who was clutching the only example currently in the whole of Europe. Come to think of it, I didn't see him let go of it the entire time we were at the stand... true love or just guardian instincts? Having now seen and heard the Tenori-On in action, I'm inclined to think the former. "in sonicstate

Tenorion video
Website

Documentary by Nate harrison

2007-02-23T14:54:00.000Z

Bassline Baseline is a video essay that investigates the invention, failure and subsequent resurrection of the mythic Roland TB-303 Bass Line music machine in the last two decades of the 20th century. The narrative seeks to invite thoughts on technological mediation within product innovation and creative expression. The dead-panned 'documentary' video attempts to explore how and why creative tools fail and how increasingly more options, parameters or intermediaries devised during a tool's research and development phase don't necessarily lead to increased expressivity or virtuosity during the tool's lifetime of actual use, unless the super-structure of its cultural context is dramtically reconsidered.

Nate harrison

Zoundz

2007-02-23T14:50:00.000Z

ZoundzTM creates a fusion of self- composed music with an accompanying light show. With it, users can create musical light shows never seen before. They can create their own riffs by placing one of Zoundz TM’ pawns on an interactive “hot spot” on the sound board. Each pawn associates with the sound it makes and by placing them on different locations and in different combinations, users can compose music all their own. The music portion can be fine tuned with the mode switch which enables users to adjust the tempo of the music, raise and lower the volume, increase or decrease an echo, or sustain and draw out specific sounds. Each interactive “hot spot” lights up when a pawn is placed on it and will groove to the tempo of your music. The color of the light also reflects what type of music the pawn produces with red indicating a sharper tone while blue reflects softer more soothing sounds.

Zoundz

Tactical Sound Garden

2007-02-23T14:45:00.000Z

Given the ubiquity of mobile devices and wireless networks, and their proliferation throughout increasingly diverse and sometimes unexpected urban sites, what opportunities - and dilemmas - emerge for the design of public space in contemporary cities?

The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is an open source software platform for cultivating public "sound gardens" within contemporary cities. It draws on the culture of urban community gardening to posit a participatory environment where new spatial practices for social interaction within technologically mediated environments can be explored and evaluated. Addressing the impact of mobile audio devices like the iPod, the project examines gradations of privacy and publicity within contemporary public space.

The Toolkit enables anyone living within dense 802.11 wireless (WiFi) "hot zones" to install a "sound garden" for public use. Using a WiFi enabled mobile device (PDA, laptop, mobile phone), participants "plant" sounds within a positional audio environment. These plantings are mapped onto the coordinates of a physical location by a 3D audio engine common to gaming environments - overlaying a publicly constructed soundscape onto a specific urban space. Wearing headphones connected to a WiFi enabled device, participants drift though virtual sound gardens as they move throughout the city.

Tactical Sound Garden

Dancing Balloons

2007-02-23T14:37:00.000Z

From ELPA, a stylish Japanese lighting company, comes the Dancing Balloons, very stylish ambient lights that react to sound and change colors in a smooth and relaxing way. Made of a smooth plastic material, the Dancing Balloons make any room look modern, and are an easy way to add light and color at the same time.
You can easily choose the illumination pattern (highlighted in the graphic here) to one of 8 different types with the touch of a button, and rotate through six unique colors that are as bright as they are relaxing. The LED lights will last 50,000 hours, so there’s no need to worry about replacing them, and they run on low power as well.

Dancing Balloons

Circuit Bending Workshop

2007-01-31T15:00:00.000Z

Circuit Bending Workshop
Lisboa
Este tem sido o projecto para que tenho andado a trabalhar a algum tempo, finalmente vai para a frente dias 17 e 24(info em baixo), as inscricoes sao limitadas portanto aprecem-se.

This is the project ive been working, its a circuit bending workshop in two days 17 and 24 of february, the number of people its limited, so dont waste time.
Its in Lisbon.

(english and portuguese info above)

Modificar, esventrar, desmontar e soldar para reinventar pedais de guitarra ou brinquedos ou sintetizadores pequenos. E fazer tudo isto em busca de sons originais e em nome da investida na exploracao de material sonoro.

E o que te propomos durante duas sessoes (orientadas por Ricardo Costa) a ter lugar no mes de Fevereiro (17 e 24).

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Circuit Bending é a criacao de som através da manipulacao de dispositivos audio electronicos de baixa voltagem.

Pedais de guitarra de efeitos, brinquedos de crianca, ou mesmo sintetizadores pequenos, podem criar novos sons e gerar novas aproximacoes a estetica musical atraves da sua alteracao pelo Circuit Bending.

Enfatizando as tecnicas de randomizacao, o circuit bending e normalmente associado a música de ruído (noise), embora actualmente seha utilizado por muitos compositores de música contemporanea e tambem convencionais como Mike Patton ou Beck.

O Circuit Bending encaixa-se actualmente como uma das tecnicas favoritas de muitos artistas, a sua facilidade de execucao permite criar novos sons sem se necessitar de conhecimentos em electronica.

A aproximacao a este novo tipo de manipulacao permite-nos uma maior liberdade criativa em termos musicais)

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Duração: 12 Horas ( 17 e 24 de Fevereiro das 14h às 20h)
Local: FABRICA FEATURES LISBOA
Custo: 60 euros (pago a dinheiro no acto da inscricao)
Inscricoes: até 13 de Fevereiro (o workshop so arranca com um minimo de 8 e um maximo de 12 participantes. caso não seja atingido o número mínimo apontado, o montande total entregue no acto da inscricao sera devolvido).

Formador: Ricardo Neves Costa

Destinatarios: Todas as pessoas interessadas em musica (compositores, musicos ou nao) que pretendem ficar a conhecer o circuit bending e as tecnicas de maniulacao de instrumentos electronicos de baixa voltagem.

Objectivos: Dar a conhecer aos participantes o circuit bending - o que e, como e realizado, o que faz e como se faz. Apresentacao de instrumentos criados a partir do circuit bending. Cada participante ira criar um novo instrumento a partir de um dispositivo audio.

Material necessario:
. Ferro de soldar (15~25W)
. Alicates (qualquer tipo - tendo em atencao que se vai trabalhar com componentes muito pequenos).
. Chaves (variadas - preferência: chaves estrela, fendas)
. Pilhas (variadas, 9v, 1.5a, 1.5aa)

To modify, to disassemble and to weld to reinvent small pedals of guitar or toys or synthesizers. And to make everything this in search of original sounds and on behalf of the onslaught in the exploration of sonorous material. This is called Circuit Bending.
This is what we offer in a workshop dedicated all to explore the circuit bending "science".
This workshop will be in the 17 and 24 of February and have the limited number of participants (12), also the number of hours of the workshop will be 12 divided in two days.
In the end of the workshop the participants will have a new circuit bent instrument created in the workshop and will be invited to a concert in a venue.

Workshop info

Harry Partch

2007-01-17T19:45:00.000Z

This is a set of videos by bbc, that talks about one of the most brilliant man of all time, harry partch the inventor of micro tonal here in a great documentary.

Interested in the potential musicality of speech, Partch found it necessary to build instruments that could underpin the intoning voice and develop notations that accurately and practically instructed players what to play. His first instrument was the "Monophone," later known as the "Adapted viola". He then secured a grant that allowed him to go to London to study the history of tuning systems and word-setting. While there, he met the poet W. B. Yeats with the intention of gaining his permission to write an opera based on his translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King. He accompanied himself on the Monophone while intoning "By the Rivers of Babylon," and also transcribed the exact inflections of actors from the Abbey Theatre reciting lines from Oedipus. Yeats was enthusiastic, saying "a play done entirely in this way, with this wonderful instrument, and with this type of music, might really be sensational", and gave Partch's idea his blessing.

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The Pin&Play Project

2007-01-12T16:10:00.000Z

Pin&play is a new approach of ad-hoc networking among objects that people can attach to large surfaces, such as notes that people pin to notice boards or artifacts that people hang on the walls in their home.

It incorporates augmentation of common vertical surfaces such as walls and notice boards with low-cost conductive material to create smart surfaces as a communication medium.

The objects are attached to such surfaces by means of simple pin connectors, to provide users with a familiar mechanism for adding objects to the network.

The Pin&Play

VoodooIO

2007-01-12T16:01:00.000Z

VoodooIO adopts a vision of the physical interface as a malleable material that can be shaped and adapted, rather than a device with a predetermined form or prescribed use. The intention is to overcome the obstacles that prevent hardware interfaces from being as easily appropriable by users as graphical user interfaces (and software applications in general) have become, blurring the boundaries between interface developers, interaction designers and end-users.

VoodooIO

Rollz 5

2006-12-28T16:28:00.000Z

My friend Peter b as came with other new awesome desing.
The Rollz 5 chk it
ROLLZ-5
After creating several standalone pieces, I decided to design a group of paper circuits that combine in diverse ways as an assemblage. I intended to confront the notion of “drum machine”, which implies the sterile regimentation of time, and transform it into a collection of organic flows generated by geometrical forms. These forms and their accompanying filters can be switched, wired, or touched; the final manifestations range from a small preset switch-box, a squeezable spike-dome, or a traditional modular. My first implementation uses five slim walnut panels, connected by heavy cloth-wire, which I hang on the wall to play and fold up to store (figure 1). I exposed the nodes on the surface as inlaid brass pegs, for alligator clips to grasp.

Rollz 5

Its Xmas time

2006-12-28T16:20:00.000Z

yes thats it its x mas and ive been pretty occupied with some instruments design,i will post as soon as possible.
Also ive been working in a new music instrument called the "bronkar".
So thats it have a great x mas and a happy new year ,sorry for not posting more news,but like i said before im very occupied,also im planing a circuit bent workshop here in portugal stay tuned for more info.

Circuitbent youtube group

2006-11-19T16:45:00.000Z

Just found this circuit bent group on Youtube
Chk it

Circuitbent youtube group

Paulgranjon.net

2006-11-19T16:41:00.000Z

Chk this out

I am interested in the co-evolution of humans and machines.
I build robots and other machines for shows in performances, galleries, festivals and television. The site presents works realised since 1990.

Paulgranjon.net

MidiTronTM

2006-11-01T17:33:00.000Z

MidiTronTM is a new MIDI to real-world interface designed to simplify the process of creating sensor and robotics based electronic art projects. It is easily user configurable and provides 20 terminals of digital and analog inputs and outputs in any combination.

MidiTronTM

MIDIsense

2006-11-01T17:30:00.000Z

MIDIsense is a simple, yet extensible sensor interface system for artists, musicians and others interested in experimenting with sensors. The MIDIsense boards provide a simple way to integrate various common sensors with existing software such as Max/MSP, Ableton Live, etc. or directly to a synthesizer/sequencer with a MIDI in jack. Interface boards are available as kits and (possibly) assembled. Graphical configuration/calibration software is written in wx/Python and wx/C++ and is available for MacOS X or Windows as executable. Linux is not explicitly supported right now.

While there are other projects with similar functionality, this one is the most technically advanced, flexible & inexpensive.

MIDIsense

Arduino

2006-11-01T17:28:00.000Z

Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software. The Arduino programming language is an implementation of Wiring, itself built on Processing.

Arduino can be used to develop interactive objects, taking inputs from a variety of switches or sensors, and controlling a variety of lights, motors, and other outputs. Arduino projects can be stand-alone, or they can be communicate with software running on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP.) The boards can be assembled by hand or purchased preassembled; the open-source IDE can be downloaded for free.

Arduino

Tokes

2006-10-31T15:32:00.000Z

electro musical box television : the action is to use a bent musical box television , that will be the container of the electro shock technology , the melodie of the musical boxwill send pulses in heir beat that will flow trough the user , the televison has a film that rotates in a loop showing a picture of kids rowing at the river , this image is modified in a sutil way when the machin starts to electrocute , in the inside of the toy , will be a light shivering at the voltage , to biger a voltage faster the sparkling

Tokes

LoVid

2006-10-31T15:23:00.000Z

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Our work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. We combine many opposing elements in our work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of our work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. We are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory.

LoVid

77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno

2006-10-22T18:27:00.000+01:00

By combining and layering Eno's hand-made slides, the package is claimed to generate 77 million different artworks automatically. Paintings continuously transform and change as new slides fade in and others fade away. It's like ambient music for the eyes.

I'm guessing that a fair number of the 77 million paintings are almost indistinguishable, differing only slightly in colour or fade levels. That's not to say that there aren't plenty of images: even though one design motif has repeated in the time I've been using the software, I haven't noticed any similar 'paintings'. You're extremely unlikely to see anything that closely resembles the following pictures anywhere else.

77 Million Paintings By Brian Eno
Review

Kaustic Machines

2006-10-19T14:25:00.000+01:00

These experiments and prototypes try to accurately reference the original inventors where possible. Copyright in the drawings and documentation is owned by kaustic.net and making any content of this site available though reproduction, retransmission or republication is explicitly forbidden. If you feel that any information on this site is presented in violation of existing copyrights or patents or if you feel you ought to be (or are wrongly) credited, you can contact Hastings at the kaustic dot net domain by email.
kaustic is not responsible for use or abuse of the presented information.

Kaustic Machines

via getlofi

The Metal Monster

2006-10-01T16:05:00.000+01:00

The Metal Monster is a portable analogue distortion amp.

Buckets full of gain in a heavy duty IP65 die cast zinc alloy casing.

Circuits have been optimised for increased battery life.

Comes with rechargable battery, mains charger and enough Plug & Play options to keep you busy for a long time.

link

Been on holidays and make a lil sid

2006-09-30T16:17:00.000+01:00

Well sorry for not posting in this weeks but ive been on hollidays.
Now its back to normal.
Ive made a lil sid for my friend Tiago Miranda"loosers"
Here is some pictures of the instrument.
Also may thx to Peter Blasser @ ciat and please help him find more places to play, adress here
Also theres is an upcoming show by tsuki @ Trem azul be shure to chk it out im going to make a
little expo about my instruments follow by a concert.
I think thats it.

Speak and math

2006-08-04T19:13:00.000+01:00

Another bend, some features as the above.

Outro speak bendado as especificaçoes sao iguais ao do speak and read

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