Category: Blog
Enjoy the latest updates and musings from the studio.
SensorMote Project 3/31/13 After watching the Distributed Environmental Data: On the Ground at the Data Sensing Lab video I was inspired to take on a larger project. I also thought it would be a nice distraction from my other projects. Up to this point my focus was audio, but sensors ...
3/6/13 Rugged Audio Shield – Session 1 The Rugged Audio Shield can function as both a sound generator, and a recording/playback device, with an advertised 44.1 khz/16 bit output. It includes both a line input and microphone input, along with stereo output with a volume control that can be mapped ...
This little project has been a lot of fun. While I have played around with reel-to-reel recorders before, this is the first one I have had to work on by myself. Our friends Julia and Dan were moving to LA and had to get rid of some of their possessions ...
Seeed (sic) Studio Music Shield v1.0 (VS1053B codec chip) The first time I worked with this board, I was running the Arduino IDE from my MacBook. The original source code from Seeed was very convoluted, and neither of their demos worked. Only after finding corrected code on GitHub did I ...
After creating a more fully-outfitted workbench, I dove into a capacitive sensing noise maker, commonly known as a Theremin. Although, to be accurate, this is not a theremin in the truest sense. It beeps and makes a variety of ascending and descending tones in response to hand movement, but it doesn’t make ...
Jan/Feb 2013 After working with the Adafruit Wave Shield, I wanted something a bit more compact. Enter the Sparkfun MP3 Trigger v2.0, which uses a VS1063A codec chip. After testing the basic switch open/close triggers, I wired this to an PIR (infrared) trigger and simple switch. The PIR is a bit finicky, and couple probably be ...
Wave Shield by Adafruit – Worked the first time! I knew my interest in electronic music and the maker movement would come together at some point. It was just a matter of when. The first catalyst, back in 2012, started when an artist friend wanted to trigger sounds for a sculpture. ...
In 2012 Jeremy founded the Central PA Electro/Synthesizer meetup in 2012, which later became the Susquehanna Experimental Music & Sound meetup until 2016 when it was closed to pursue other projects. During the meetup’s four year span, the small group presented workshops, demos, jams, demos, concerts and social gatherings for ...
“Chaos Factory 2.0” from my 2010 album Chaos Rise Up, has been included in the Doomsday and Brimstone compilation by Sound for Good records. The Sound for Good record label has partnered with the Electro-Music to help help support the community by offering the new release, “Doomsday and Brimstone” a ...
Some experiments with an optical theremin and some effects pedals… used in one of my electro performances. ...
The Central PA Electro Meetup kicked off in November 2012 and meets monthly. See our site for full details and schedule: RSVP // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s); js.id=id;js.async=true;js.src="https://secure.meetup.com/890357987448484755600/script/api/mu.btns.js?id=hmkq16d93u9ld112bp1ai5ocel";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","mu-bootjs"); // ]]> Here’s a review of our first meeting: ...
“There’s nothing to do!” You’re crazy… Bloomsburg restaurant rundown (downtown unless otherwise noted): Seasons on Main – Opened in early 2013 by a restauranteur Gary Vadakin who has a lot of local experience with what works on the dining table, this is now the best place in town for an ...