Category: Blog
Enjoy the latest updates and musings from the studio.
What is the aim of the experiment? Are there specific goals? What are the materials or various ingredients? What unusual combinations might you find/create? To what extent is the experimenter guided by intuition vs established techniques? Are you comfortable with an unknown outcome or failure? What is failure? Are you ...
Yeah, my sites are looking a bit dated right now because I am just getting back on my feet after a very time consuming and logistically difficult move to Philadelphia. The studio has closed. We’ve downsized to an apartment, so two-thirds of my studio are in storage right now while ...
The following was prompted by some feedback I received recently on some music I posted to a discussion group. Numbered definitions are from Dictionary.com, the commentary is my own. “Experimental” – Adjective. Definition 1. pertaining to, derived from, or founded on experiment: an experimental science. Commentary: Sound and music, having ...
“Haunted 2016 is a dead-on perfect tribute to the scary sound effects albums of the past.” Back in 2016, Audra and I recorded a long-form Halloween soundscape, purely for the joy and experimentation of it all. Titled “Haunted 2016”, we released it on Bandcamp, just for kicks. The album ...
* The program and other elements had the wrong anniversary number – so this is actually 14, not 15! :-) Graphics by Robert Dorschel This year’s NEEMFest (NorthEastern Electro-Music Festival) was held September 7-9, 2018 in Homer, NY. Now in its 14th* year, the performance-centric gathering features three full days of ...
Teensy is a popular microcontroller ecosystem that I’ve highlighted on my site before. There are already a number of breakout shields on the market for most of the Teensy models. I’ve tried several, and written about them here. The breakout boards that I’ve tried were either overbuilt with way more ...
This is a rather old project meant as a supplement to other things I was working on in the audio realm. Adafruit notes: “As of May 23, 2016 we’ve updated this breakout to use the TPA2012 rather than the TS2012. This is an overall-equivalent part with slightly less power output. You ...
I found Daniel Gilbert’s Teensy 3.2 Breakout (Revision D) on Tindie during a web search while working on my Teensy Audio project. The breakout board was out of stock, so I put myself on the wait list immediately. As soon as they were available a few weeks later, I ordered two – one ...
The LinkSprite is an 8 x 8 LED matrix that can be used when you need something more sophisticated than a single LED to give feedback. It also opens up the world of creating letters, numbers and basic shapes. Extremely well documented, the Linksprite is very easy to get going ...