Adventure in Soundland

Isn’t serendipity a fine thing? I found these little tins for mini teddies today on one of my sally anne and mountain top climbing forays. Mountain climbing forays you ask? Indeed! I’m thinking about doing a bunch of really big paintings of the old dead volcano cones of Auckland city… with a metaphorical twist, and [...]

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It’s not really my kind of website. Interesting stuff but not enough diehard info about how the stuff works. But I haven’t really had a good look about and it might be in there somewhere… but I absolutely love the aesthetic! Get Lofi.com And isn’t this poster just absolutely wonderful? Now I’ve just got to [...]

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Quick little post here. Friend Felix sent me a link to a guy called Moldover who built an optical theremin into the jewel case of his latest CD so I went looking for optical theremins this morning. Well, I didn’t want to be so obvious so I went looking for light theremins. First one I [...]

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Okay, I haven’t done the TV yet. I’m waiting on getting some more bulldog leads so I can isolate the switching to just have the TV on but also remove the radio and tape cassette. Originally I wanted them all on at once but wiring it up so they are all on is beyond me [...]

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Bit bored today so as I was going through the experimentalists anonymous forums and I came across the “turn your old TV into an Oscilliscope thread” in the articles and tutorials section. Basically it’s all there and you simply add a switch and an input to the TV and way you go. I’ve cut the [...]

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I went and got all the recording stuff outta the dusty corners where it’s been sitting un-used for the past few years, waiting for me to build a room for it, so I can get some of these instruments recorded. I haven’t tried it yet but no longer is it a matter of just plugging [...]

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