MTF – Sem2, Wk 4: Circuit Bending 1
This week, I have taken a radio apart and gone for some basic bends. I tried for about 40 minutes before I got anything significant and still really got the same sound from a few different points. Another couple of hours would yield more results, I'm sure. I like the idea of incorporating radio into my instrument and using the channel dial somehow bent. I still have no real idea how I am going to incorporate any of this into my final instrument. I have a feeling it is going to take some dedicated sessions over the mid-semester break to put all the threads together, but what I have been thinking about getting around to on the weekend is setting something up on the breadboard and attaching a bent toy or radio. Also been thinking about how you calculate the power requirements of wiring a few circuit boards together. My focus seems to have been on what's at hand over recent weeks; each individual project rather than the larger picture which is the instrument. Kalimba still looks good, but it changes. Some kind of hybrid is developing. Not only a hybrid re: power (still looking at alternatives), but it may have a radio bend or two, some toy hanging off the side and a rather large toy with lots of sounds I have been saving as the kalimba centrepiece. This would all be wired to one power source and audio output, with the option, of course, of wiring in separate outputs from each noise machine to unique amplification in different parts of a space. I am into the idea of an unusual housing for the instrument – I realise this has nothing to do with the electronics but it is an aesthetic matter! Don't fancy playing with a metal box; rather a brightly coloured plastic or wooden peculiarity with strange buttons, knobs and dials if possible. Starting to get some ideas after looking at the inspiring CasperElectronics website. * Note: Sorry about the spacey sound on the first part of vid. Achieved by plugging shotgun mic into camera, camera to computer, computer to headphones sitting on desk near shotgun and round again ... also vid a bit long, will tighten up the post production when I learn the editing software a little better! References: Haines, C. (Semester 2, 2007). Circuit Bending 11. Music Technology Forum, Semester 2, Week 4. Tomczak, S. (2007, August 16). Circuit Bending 11. Music Technology Forum, Semester 2, Week 4 . pp 59-63. Collins, Nicolas 2006, Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking, TFROUTL. pp 3-23, 103-129. Reed, Ghazala 2005, Circuit-bending : build your own alien instruments, Wiley pp 47-74, 353-361. Reed, Ghazala 2005, Circuit-bending : build your own alien instruments, Casper Electronics - Finished Pieces - http://www.casperelectronics.com/finished-pieces/
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