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Artist Detail. Link to home page : Tom Nunn Biography: Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1976, having received a B.Mus. and M.A. in music composition from the University of Texas at Austin and S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and post-graduate work at U.C. San Diego. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity.

Tom has designed and built over 200 instruments, representing three basic types: space plates, electroacoustic percussion boards, and skatchboxes. Space plates are metal sheets with bronze rods that are bowed; the plate is supported by inflated balloons, allowing the plate to resonate. Work-In-Progress: My most recent invention and related project is the Lukie Tube. Email: tntomnunn@gmail.com Upcoming Events: Berkeley Arts 2133 University AvenueBerkeley. Musica Globalista: Folktek electronic folk instruments | Beyond The Beyond. Electronic Music Instruments. Now that manufactured instruments that are mass produced have long outnumbered hand made instruments, the latter have been classified as folk instruments. The purpose of this is to elevate the status of mass produced objects above that of the folk object, which is generally considered to be of inferior quality.

Of course folk instruments, being unstandardized, have a freedom of range in form, character, choice of materials and quality of workmanship that mass produced objects can only dream about. These prototype synthesizers are made in the tradition of historical folk instruments, created solely for the use of its maker and need not be housed in a refined console suitable for the school, church or parlor. Folk synthesizers are as at home in the hovel or moldy basement as they are in a museum of valued folk artifacts that used to belong in barns or sheds. Roll Up Your Sleeves: A Documentary About Do-It-Yourself Counterculture (2008) Detektors. Inspiring Makers and Breakers. : : : M O L D O V E R : : : Limor.

Macumbista.net. Nicolas Collins. Leonardo Music Journal. Nicolas Collins, Editor-in-Chief Roger F. Malina, Executive Editor Leonardo Muisc Journal (LMJ) is the companion annual journal to Leonardo. LMJ is devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Each thematic issue features artists and writers from around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints.

Recent issues have covered improvisation, musical communities, live performance in the digital age, and the musical gizmo. LMJ is a peer-reviewed journal. Back issues from volumes 1-18 are available at JSTOR. New! Special Offer: Two Publications/One Subscription: The MIT Press offers Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ) and the quarterly Computer Music Journal for one special subscription price. John Richards: Electroacoustic Music. Charge/Discharge (2012) by John Richards [Documentary & Performance] Dirty Electronics. Jessica Rylan | Feminist Music Geek.

Cover to Pink Noises (Duke University Press, 2010); image courtesy of thestranger.com Tara Rodgers’s book Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound collects interviews from a variety of female musicians who work with electronic instruments, either as deejays, composers, sound artists, or sometimes a composite of all three.

Anticipation was high for this book, which began as a Web site Rodgers started while in graduate school at Mills College. I began reading over the interviews available online when preparing an encyclopedia entry on female DJs and found it an invaluable resource. When I finally picked up a copy and began pouring over the cover — which features Jessica Rylan playing a self-fashioned synthesizer — I was sold. The project takes its name from both femininity’s associations with pink and a technical term which refers to variations of white noise that contain low frequencies, resulting in an equal distribution of energy per octave.

Flower Electronics. In Praise Of Jessica Rylan. Big thanks to Dominick Colucci for alerting me to this great video of master electronics expert and synth-builder Jessica Rylan explaining her abiding love for her craft of choice. For those unaware of Rylan and her numerous fantastic recordings (both solo and under the Can't alias), be sure to check out the following performance videos as well as WFMU blogger Nat Roe's post from last year on Rylan's deranged destruction of 80's soft-rock/pop earworms that make up her Can't Vs. The World CD. Sadly, Rylan has been quiet in recent years on the release/live performance front, but I highly recommend checking out her unreally dense album of subconscious-burning synth instrumentals Prepares To Fail Again. The gallows-humor of the cover art has always been a personal favorite of mine. Fourses and Fyrall.

The fyrall has two outputs, and one input to modulate the whole instrument. It can be run on batteries or transformer. These tracks are live recordings I made in my basement, a fieldstone chamber. From each instrument, I miked the built-in speaker and took two electronic direct outputs. Later I added vocal commentary. A shadow of the cypress, Farnel is dead. Lower and thicker, Green is the colour, The sound of water. Noise Synth. Nonfinite Electronics - Your Source For Everything Game Boy Related! Tim Kaiser. Unatronics. Experimentalists Anonymous. Experimentalists Anonymous. Blackdeath noise synth. And this is the reason why it is impossible in a visitation to prevent the spreading of the plague by the utmost human vigilance: viz., that it is impossible to know the infected people from the sound, or that the infected people should perfectly know themselves.

[Daniel DeFoe. Journal of the Plague Year] *Blackdeath is now out of production.The Dark Interpreter will be released soon.* Inspired in part by Leif Elggren's Virulent Images/Virulent Sound (if images can be virulent, can sound be virulent too?) Embedding epidemic and plague simulations amongst other data generation algorithms for granular re-synthesis of incoming audio signals or self-generated feedback, blackdeath represents a virulent yet highly controllable noise/audio engine with built-in, switchable distortion. Price: 110 euros with free shipping worldwide See also: micro-blackdeath (yersinia pestis) - blackdeath algorithms, sub-bass filtering, no sampling.

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Circuit Bending

Circuit Bending Europe. CEO - with a little bit of Bend-O-Rama. Cementimental - circuitbending, experimental noise, harsh noise, rough music. Circuit Bending South America. GAMBIÓLOGOS | A GAMBIARRA NOS TEMPOS DO DIGITAL. Gambiologia.net. BEND: A Circuit Bending Documentary. Circuit Bending North America. ROTH MOBOT | TOMMY STEPHENSON | PATRICK McCARTHY | CIRCUIT BENDING WORKSHOPS | E. Reed Ghazala. Qubais Reed Ghazala, an American author, photographer, composer, musician and experimental instrument builder, is recognized as the "father of circuit bending," having discovered the technique in 1966, pioneered it, named it, and taught it ever since.

He has built experimental instruments for many prominent musicians and media companies including Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, The Rolling Stones, and MTV, among others. Ghazala's work has been covered globally in the press and can be found being taught world-wide. Ghazala's work is held in various galleries internationally.

His influence upon creative electronic design is global, having originated the planet's first "grassroots electronic art movement. " History[edit] Reed accidentally discovered the technique of circuit bending in the 1960s when he left a toy amplifier in his desk and heard it start to emit sounds comparable to those produced by expensive synthesizers of the day. Bibliography[edit] Discography[edit] Notes[edit] Reed Ghazala's Anti-Theory Workshop. Circuit Bending With Reed Ghazala. Interview with Erin Pauley | Bend. I recently had the chance to interview my friend and fellow Ex’pression Sound Arts major, Erin Pauley, about her circuit bending knowledge and experience. Erin Pauley in her Studio Although Erin hasn’t bent many things herself, she is an electronic musician and is very knowledgeable about circuit bending and a variety of other experimental techniques.

In addition, she knows many people who are directly involved in the circuit bending movement, including Dr. Rek, who is putting together the first official circuit bending documentary. Erin had a lot of great things to say about the experimental electronics community, circuit bending’s place in music, and why people are so drawn to it once they discover what it is. GetLoFi - Circuit Bending Synth DIY | Circuit Bending tips and resources for Beginners and Pros alike. Please send tips to circuitmaster. Guitar DIY. Guitar DIY Projects and Schematics from Beavis Audio Research. Gallery. Guitar FX Layouts.