8-bit violin played by real fiddlers!
These guys at the Thingamajigs DIY Instruments Tailgate Party really know how to operate a pointy rectangular fiddle! Thanks, CTP, for the videos.
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busy summer!
Last month I went to the Lightning Field, brought Sketching Device #1 to the Peabody Essex Museum, and spoke at the Sketching in Hardware conference. Now I really have to get to work. In September,...
View ArticleJelTone update
All the plans, instructions, and source code for the Resistor JelTone are now available on thingiverse!
View Articlethe voice extruder
the voice extruder, originally uploaded by ranjit. Video: Adam Mayer helps test an almost-finished version of my project for Artbots Gent: the Voice Extruder makes a shape from your voice, and then...
View Articlethe Music Box Orchestra, New Orleans
Here’s a teaser video of the New Orleans Airlift’s Music Box Orchestra, a big crazy sound art/architecture project I helped out with. My contribution was the squeaky moving floor, which you can see...
View Articleinstrument-a-day 1: westminster doorbell
Day 1: the Westminster Doorbell, made of a couple of steel rods suspended over a guitar pickup. I’m learning how to get more overtones out of it, but I haven’t really figured it out yet.
View Articleinstrument-a-day 14: accordion abuse
(video link) plucking the reeds from the guts of an accordion.
View Articleinstrument-a-day 19: tromba marina
(video link) I made a trumpet marine, or tromba marina from a maple beam, a cello string, a leftover bridge from the 8-bit violin, and a styrofoam cooler as the resonating body. This one’s a bit...
View Articlewith algorithms subtle and discreet / i seek iambic writings to retweet
Pentametron, my twitter poetry engine, is now online! An experiment in finding inadvertent art in the internet’s endless outpouring of language, pentametron automatically collects twitter posts that...
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