On June 4th, 2011 is the 4th Annual Experimental Garage Sale! This craft fair focuses on circuit bending and DIY musical instruments at the Experimental Sound Studio space with 12 sellers who will have plenty circuit bent devices, un-bent toys, electronic parts, kits, experimental instruments, contact microphones, guitar pedals, art, and more. The sale will begin rain or shine at 12:00 PM and last until 6:00 PM.
Here’s the Facebook Event page.
Check out this cool synth kit that’s meant to be poked prodded and programmed into whatever you wish. It’s designed by James Grahame of Reflex Audio + Retro Thing, and Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music.
Here’s a demo of the kind of sounds you can make with this little hackable blippy instrument:
Meeblip bassline demo by cdm
From James:
Oscillator A & B slightly detuned, square wave on A and sawtooth on B. FM turned all the way up, distortion on. The filter resonance turned way up (hence the chirpy squeal) and the filter cutoff knob is initially open, then twiddled a bit to help the filter chirp. At the end, I just slowly turn the cutoff down. the VCF envelope modulation is mapped to MIDI velocity, which adds some sonic movement.
Take a look, Get one of your own, learn how to make / use / modify it, and then join us in the MeeBlip group to share sounds, hacks, photos, videos, music, whatever.
I’m a big fan of fractals, starting with discovering Fractint while filecrawling on a BBS back in the day, then naming my online “geek boutique” after them, then creating a paper toy named “Mandlebot”. Here’s a cool documentary on fractals by Nova: “Hunting the Hidden Dimension.”
Here’s the .tsi file for the M-Audio X-Session Pro for Traktor Pro that I used on my latest mix: “The Consequences.” The photo shows how I set up the top knobs and the rest is pretty standard, with soft-takeovers on the faders and effect knob. The file is not backwards compatible for earlier versions of Traktor.
Submit your cutest vector desktop and you could WIN!
Definition of Cute: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness, obviously contrived to charm
Definition of Vector: the use of points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. Most people use illustrator or photoshop to make vector graphics.
Winners will be announced by August 15th 2010
Grand Prize:
$50 gift card to iTunes
$100 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$50 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac
2nd Place:
$25 gift card to iTunes
$50 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$25 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac
3rd Place:
$25 gift card to ShanaLogic.com
$10 gift card to iTunes
$10 gift card to fractalspin.com
Free promo code for Ramp Champ (an iPhone/iPod touch game)
Free copy of Frenzic for Mac
Ready? Enter now at PixelGirlPresents
The Wiimotes
Max/MSP + Wiimote to make IDM
A more technical demo of Max/MSP + Wiimotes to control Ableton Live
Here’s some news from my Quantazelle production product. I’ve got two new tracks to share with you, “Quantum Gazele”and a cover ofBeyonce’s”Halo”
.I’ve also released a bunch of my samples as a free download, and I’m holding a remix contest with prizes. I hope you download it and play around with the weird sounds I’ve made, and I look forward to hearing what you’ve made.
And if you’ve been link-clicking you might have noticed I have a new website.I’ve also got some posters and t-shirts for sale if you want to go check them out.
Thanks for your support! Enjoy,
Liz
