Monthly Archives: November 2009

bending the alesis part 1

I’ve had this drum machine, the Alesis HR-16b, for about 15 years. I haven’t used it much lately because although it’s a nice machine which is really quick and easy to program and a lot of fun to use, it has to be said that the sounds are a bit too clean. It’s hard to [...]

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meatspace

I’ve been a bit busy in meatspace lately so I haven’t posted much here. Forgive me. Stuff I’ve been doing includes: Repairing and circuit bending my Alesis drum machine. Rigging a sine / square wave generator from some old medical equipment. Making sound effects for a clown routine in the circus. Doing my Tuesday night [...]

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ladies’ night

Tuesday’s radio show was a Ladies’ night special featuring Sharon Jones, Wanda Jackson, and my new favourite singer Betty Davis. There’s a dedicated feed for the shows now too, so I won’t post them all on this feed as well unless there’s a particular reason to do so. The page: http://bsidebeats.com/podcast/ The feed: http://bsidebeats.com/category/podcast/feed/ Righto.

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