Built 2 new optical theremin devices this weekend, one with an LFO modulating the oscillator voltage. Here’s a quick video to demonstrate: One of these devices was built to order for a DJ who plays a lot of gigs in a lot of different environments, and from my own experience using these light-controlled instruments in [...]
The Hamilton Fringe Festival kicks off this Thursday, promising: a riotous smorgasbord of art events brought to you by over 300 local artists, performers and directors. Proudly providing unique opportunity for the exhibition of creative work, the Fringe is a stage upon which anything may happen. New and emerging talent steps up into the limelight [...]
Pics of some of the stuff I found at the tip on the weekend: The whole face is a flat panel with touch sensitive regions and the “keys” can play flute, glockenspiel, trumpet, and guitar sounds. This one is very boring but I’ve been looking for a boring keyboard to modify, and lately I’ve only [...]
Quick dirty demo of the synth beast I built last night. Recorded with echoes ‘cos that’s how I roll – no other signal processing. ———– Low bandwidth option: download audio only (< 1MB) [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
update- now with video as promised: AJ’s Mum gave me this old AM transistor radio when we were cleaning out her garage, and being a curious sort of monkey I had a poke around inside it the other night to see what I could find with an eye to some sort of circuit-bending hi-jinks. (click [...]
