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Enjoy the latest updates and musings from the studio.
A friend of ours has a vintage Acetone Fuzzmaster. My father copied and made several versions it, and was researching different versions. This is one that he selected the parts for, and that I built into a holiday canister. I didn’t have quite enough room for a switch, and I ...
New playlist for experiments with a Pittsburgh Modular synth. https://soundcloud.com/shivasongster/sets/modular-madness ...
I recently performed at the Kutztown University Computer Music & Visualization Conference 2015 at the Kutztown University Planetarium. My piece, titled “Sunspot Cycle”, with visuals by Michael O’Bannon, was loosely inspired by the science of helioseismology. You can listen to studio demos below, and see pictures of the event on Flickr. I hope ...
I had just recently watched a couple speeches and interviews by Neil Young because I wanted to understand exactly what he was doing. I heard a lot about PONO, but just hadn’t taken that time. Short answer: I’m no fan of MP3s and I have to constantly struggle to remind ...
In January 2015, I finally got brave enough to tackle the Synth in a Box project that I picked up from Michael Victor at EM2014. This proved to be quite challenging because it was the most involved electronically, with lots of wires. I opted for solid wire because I generally ...
I’ve always been interested in brain/computer interfacing, but never knew much about the field. When the OpenBCI open source platform came out on Kickstarter, I supported the campaign and signed up for one of their first boards. I thought with my Arduino experience up to that point that it would be ...
Tayda Electronics (where I get many of my parts) calls this their “Super Hard On” circuit. I used a loose tea canister for the case. My brother helped me with the drilling since he has access to better tools. It looks nice, though in terms of practicality, it’s not exactly ...
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This project was built from a kit that I got from fellow electro artist Michael Victor at EM2014’s swap meet. Michael had the unbuilt kit in the original shipping envelope, a special edition model from Steim’s 2011 run. The kit went together pretty quickly with few issues, but I do ...
At the end of August I built the SparkPunk Sound Kit, and used an EHX 8-Step to trigger the kit via control voltage. Not long after this, Sparkfun released their own sequencer, which I promptly ordered, hoping it would arrive before the next electro-music festival. The sequencer kit arrived well ...
It has been a while since I built something, so here’s a little project that was a lot of fun, and has opened up some new noise maker territory. Sparkfun is one of the top suppliers of parts and kits for the electronics hobbyist, and while I still prefer Adafruit ...
This post is for any of my listeners who are curious (or confused) about my journey into Zero Input Mixing (ZIM). Disclaimer: This isn’t for the faint of heart. Those who are used to my Blues/Roots side, or the work I do with Fricknadorable are forewarned. These are not the ...