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Sidrax and axe
Just finished a big work: updating the sidrazzi organ to become the "sidrax" shown in the bottom of the picture. Its syntax is similar to the "tetrax" which has 6 bananas for each bar:two orange...
View ArticleMy Paper on misinterpretation, ancient tunings, ends with paper circuit
First in a series of papers talking about philosophical underpinnings of circuit making and tuning:Importance of Unrecorded Music
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Microcottage @ Connecticut attic
A microcottage is an entity, constructed for the purpose of cottage industry.It will appropriate unused space, such as this unheated attic with asbestos floor tiles... It has a skylight for day work,...
View ArticleMental Map of Integer Computer Operators
In celebration of the coming arrival of my good friend Ezra Buchla on campusius, I will present a mental map of integer computer operations. They are the candy of DSP. Ezra has built a sound computer...
View ArticleQuantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part I
Barney is on the radio. He has taken up residence at the station, padding softly on the root-encrusted paths between the transmitter shack and the zither shed. He wears his monk's robes on the...
View ArticleQuantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part II
"Driving at night with my son in the car-seat, I perceived an amber light floating over the corn-fields. We frequently see such things out here in the fields, and I wanted to show these quantic...
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Cort versus Cork: Towards a Sandrode Computer
We live in a post-digital age. I will leave un-packing of that statement for classroom discussion, nevertheless proceeding upon that assumption as well as the popular lemma, that we live in...
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Friendship Bracelets: Deconstructing the Triangle Wave
A Seminar at UCSBDeconstructing the Triangle WaveAbstractThe speaker's analog circuits explore novel uses of simple components to yield chaotic and rich electronic timbres. Using examples such as...
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A Survey of Modular Folk, Summer 2014
This summer, with funding from Wesleyan University graduate program in Experimental Music, I embarked on a journey to characterize the modular synthesize industry. To do this, I participated in two...
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M : CcCCcccCCC : M
The title of this post relates to Marx's most basic theory of dissing the bourgeoisie: by pointing out that they trade money for commodities, and leverage up the value of those same commodities to make...
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Compartments, Chaos-Pack, Flambeau-Pack
Flambeau. That word incites to organize, and celebrate organization. Recently, I purchased two large, 24 compartment Flambeau boxes, to put my capacitor collection into spreadsheet-like compartments....
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yewSOL
To work with solar panels, you have to sit outside.Prototyping electronics, one rarely gets to work outside. Testing solar panels, however, is a good chance to get out, at least for a little bit.What I...
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Barre Rolzer Curry Barre
The new modules from Ieaskul F. Mobenthey should be ready to order soon.In addition there is a barre controller, which is a simple passive affair, no circuit board,just four bars with piezo and output...
View ArticleIeaskul F. Mobenthey
Just spent a full day at Control in New York, checking wares against the Eurorack standard. The modules I was checking are a years worth of prototyping and design, known as Ieaskul F. Mobenthey....
View ArticleNegative versioning
"Versioning," for me, is duplicating a file I'm working on (code, circuit board, essay) at various official and casual points in its development, and applying a number to that point in time. This is...
View ArticleFrom an Old Notebook
Qua ("kind") is the presence of feedbackand self talking thatall the nodes at leastindirectly affect each othersometimes goes inactiveif not self stimulating -uses positive + negative feedbackto...
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Cort/Cork part 2: Seeking Shards of Quartz
Seek low hanging fruit.Here's how to do it:seek the shard of quartza boy embedded years agoin the bark of the crotch of the trunk.It's at eye level but you must dig through moss and worms to get...
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Zoo Dream
Humans are the spectators at a zoo, but have you ever thought the animals watch you too? In collaboration with Teb, a landscape architect, and a sustainability expert, we have re-conceptualized the zoo...
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