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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:30 am Post subject:
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I've been reading "Handmade Electronic Music - The art of hardware hacking" by Nicolas Collins. I found it at the local library. Very experimental, light on theory, heavy with ideas I hadn't thought of.
The bit I'm reading at the moment is about getting audio signals into and out of mechanical modifiers by using piezo discs, motors, transformers etc. It's re-triggered my interest in a rack mount mini-slinky reverb.
I need to do some serious priority clarification. There are half baked ideas littering the lab and my mind, and I still can't actually use my ASM-2 or SoundLab or a couple of other things, cos they're not actually properly finished. Sometimes the sheer weight of creative ideas can be enough to smother any actual action and I end up feeling completely lost about what I should do next, or why I'm doing anything at all.
Does anyone else get this kind of effect? _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there. |
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Scott Stites
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Joined: Dec 23, 2005 Posts: 4127 Location: Mount Hope, KS USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:39 am Post subject:
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That's uncanny, you just described my life in a nutshell (except my Soundlab has yet to be graced by a soldering iron and I don't have an ASM2).
The best way I have of overcoming the effect is to always leave something set up that will make noise, with the recorder always close by. That helps in a couple of ways - you can still make music at the drop of the hat, when the urge grips you, and it helps you to get to know the devices that are hooked up better; with everything else out of the picture, you're left to making something with those few devices.
Someday, all will be up and running, and all those pent-up musical juices will make a big mess on the floor
Hmmm.....yuck....
Cheers,
Scott _________________ My Site |
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Dragon's Lair
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 203 Location: Hope BC, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:
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Join the club Andy, I have a computer full of circuit diagrams and pc board layouts, in various levels of completion, half a dozen etched boards, waiting to be populated, another half a dozen completed boards waiting for front panels, a cnc engraver that is half done (to make those front panels with), I still have to finish writing the program for my 8 step sequencer, and to top it off, I just received my ASM-2 board and parts from Laurie!
Why do I do this to myself?
I need a break |
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Uncle Krunkus
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Joined: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 4761 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:
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Yes,....
Maybe it's time for beer.
I'll have to wait until I'm not working the next day.
Any of you guys want to come down to Oz for a big piss up BBQ next Tuesday night? We can rant about DIY synths and freeze our nuts off around the fire while drinking waaaaay toooo much. _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there. |
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Dragon's Lair
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 203 Location: Hope BC, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject:
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Aw, quit teasing us unc
My nephew brought his 3 year old daughter over for a vist, she wouldn't say "great uncle dave" , so now I'm known as grunkle |
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Wild Zebra
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 806 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:
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Quote: | Any of you guys want to come down to Oz for a big piss up BBQ next Tuesday night? We can rant about DIY synths and freeze our nuts off around the fire while drinking waaaaay toooo much.
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I'll hop in the jet and be right over
Quote: | so now I'm known as grunkle |
At least your not Drunkle Dave _________________ "your stripes are killer bro" |
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Dragon's Lair
Joined: Dec 29, 2006 Posts: 203 Location: Hope BC, Canada
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject:
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Quote: | I'll hop in the jet and be right over |
Detour north a bit, and pick me up on the way
Quote: | At least your not Drunkle Dave |
Only on friday nights .... oops, it is friday night |
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