By Nicolas Collins
ISBN-10: 0415975913
ISBN-13: 9780415975919
Hand-crafted digital song: The artwork of Hacking offers a long-needed, useful, and fascinating advent for college students of digital song, deploy and sound-art to the craft of making--as good as creatively cannibalizing--electronic circuits for creative reasons. Designed for practioners and scholars of digital paintings, it offers a guided travel during the global of electronics, encouraging artists to get to grasp the internal workings of easy digital units to allow them to creatively use them for his or her personal ends.
Handmade digital tune introduces the fundamental of functional circuitry whereas educating the coed in uncomplicated digital ideas, constantly from the sensible perspective of an artist. It teaches a method of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been misplaced during this day of prefabricated digital musical tools whose internal workings should not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to go beyond their worry of digital know-how to release themselves into the excitement of operating creatively with all types of analog circuitry.
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Connect the two wires of any small DC motor (one that runs off batteries) directly to the output of your mini-amplifier (not through the output transformer). It should twitch in response to your sound source. Sometimes clamping the body of the motor directly to an object will be sufficient to transmit the vibration; sometimes you’ll need to get clever with a cam on the motor shaft. Some motors work better than others (vibrators from pagers and cell phones tend to be good)—experiment. 3 A corked speaker.
Given the breadth of his impact as a composer and theoretician, his significance in the rise of hacker electronic culture is sometimes overlooked. Throughout his career Cage had a passionate curiosity for new sounds and compositional strategies. Lacking institutional support in the form of orchestral commissions and the like, Cage, the son of an inventor, chose to develop new instruments from everyday technological and commonplace objects. At the beginning of his career he literally made do with rubbish: his early percussion music, such as “First Construction in Metal” (1939), used brake drums and other scrap iron from junkyards.
Solder one end of the wire to the tip of a plug that fits into your amp or tape recorder, and solder the other end to the sleeve. Plug in, turn on, drop out. Dueling Radios In the process of receiving and demodulating transmissions, radios actually generate and send back out intermediary electromagnetic signals. These transmissions aren’t very powerful, but evidently are strong enough that airline passengers are warned not to turn on radios in flight for fear of disrupting the navigation system (knowing just how weak these signals really are further diminishes one’s faith in air travel safety).