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Circuit Bending for Beginners
Because unmaking something is a great way to make something new. Under development.
Posted in Circuit Bending, Circuits, Workshops
Musical Circuits Goes to Moogfest 2017
Four Days, Four Workshops Interview with Jasmin Blasco of Dublab Radio Jasmin and Elliot talk about Moogfest, the square wave oscillator workshops, the history of drawing devices as a tool for making music, making music on a Mac … Continue reading
A Postmodern Drum Machine
“How does time function in postmodern music? Postmodernism is profoundly temporal, but it uses, rather than submits to time. Its music shapes time, manipulates time. Time, like tonal sounds and diatonic tunes and rhythmic regularity and textual unity, becomes no … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, Drum Machine, Experimental Music, Postmodernism
Silence, Chance, Cage, Code
“Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard.” ~ Stéphane Mallarmé, 1897 John Cage is well known as the composer who formalized the use of silence as a compositional element on par with any other note or sound. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Experimental Music, John Cage, Uncategorized
Musical Circuits @ KNOBCON 2016
Experimental Music: Composition with an Arduino MIDI Controller Knobcon Chicagoland, September 2016 With an Arduino, a breadboard, and a handful of parts, you can build a MIDI controller that works as a sequencer or a classic beatbox. But the same … Continue reading
Posted in Arduino, Circuits, CODE, Experimental Music, MIDI
Binary Beethoven: Coding a Musical Idea
The first four ominous notes of the Fifth Symphony are well known: da-da-da-dum! That musical idea seems so obvious now, but think just for a moment about how radical it was and is. First, this is a symphony that doesn’t … Continue reading
