Tiny Dazzler CMOS Tap Looper.

This quite interesting project was found via electro-music.com forum post. 

It is simple tap looper, based on 4031 cmos chip.

Read more about it on Tiny Dazzler blog. 

Great project! :)

Abstract binary sequencer

Interesting grid sequencer by Noizehack. Built with Touch Osc and Puredata. Short quote from video description:

made a 16 by 16 grid with touch osc that sends osc messages to pure data that turns the grid into 4 8 bit binary numbers, 2 horizontal, 2 vertical and then uses the 8 bit (0-255) numbers to control the parameters of a simple sine wave synth with amplitude and frequency modulation and also some cross modulation.

Check also other stuff from Noizehack, there is lot of different type PD sequencers.

League of Automatic Music Composers

League of Automatic Music Composers was group of Nothern Californian (who later moved to NYC?) musicians and hackers, who used early computers - mainly KIM-1 - for creating networked electronic music. "Chip music" ages before chip music




More info of the group on this Acousmata's wonderful article. Notice many interesting links (example Techgnosis book) the article includes. Check their cd release at Amazon.com.

CMOS 4000 series links.

I thought to share some CMOS 4000 series links. With these it is quite good to get started to work with CMOS synths. Then of course Youtube is full of CMOS synth video clips.


Nice listing with pinouts. Good reference to work with.

http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/components/cmos.htm


Also nice list, with some recommendations of chips to start with. Doctronics has protoboard examples for many 4000 series chips.

http://www.doctronics.co.uk/beastie_zone.htm#CMOS


A new website I just found. Good, if you know some german language. Nice search feature.

http://www.cmos4000.com/


CMOS Cookbook. Buy it if you like first chapter.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/26629325/Cmos-Cookbook-chapter-1


Electro-music.com Lunetta forum:

http://electro-music.com/forum/forum-160.html


My own favourite 4000 chips are so far: 4017 (counter for sequencers), 4049 (pre-amps, dist boxes...), 4060 (binary counter for patchable synth), 4093 (4 osc NAND synth).

Tim Hawkinson - Uberorgan

I got tip for Tim Hawkinson's art from my friend. Uberorgan is one of Hawkinson's large scale art works. Quote from oddmusic.com article:

"Several bus-size biomorphic balloons, each with its horn tuned to a different in the octave, make up a walk-in self-playing organ. A 200 foot-long scroll of dots and dashes encodes a musical score of old hymns, pop classics, and improvisational ditties. This score is deciphered by the organ's brain - a bank of light sensitive switches - and then reinterpreted by a series of switches and relays that translate the original patterns into non-repeating variations of the score."

Looks and sounds great!


Oddmusic.com article:

http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om32290.html

Tim Hawkinson in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hawkinson

Peter Vogel - Rhythmic sounds (1996)

I just saw Peter Vogel's work Rhytmic sounds (1996) in Cyberfest 2011 festival. It is really interesting approach into; open circuit design, minimalistic electronic music, interactive sound art... just to name few topics work is related. It is truely maker culture before maker culture.

Welcome.

Yes, just another diy sound blog? Hmm... lets see. My idea for starting this blog was the fact that during my own artistic working, I stumble into tons of interesting weblinks related to diy sound culture and I really don't have any place where to share those links. I feel that just sharing them in Facebook is little bit waste of time. During the blogging, I try to open up more backgrounds, why I find certain link/project/etc. to be interesting enough to be shared. I'm also blogging about diy scene in Finland and elsewhere.

Since lot of my own artistic working is related to CMOS synths, MaxMSP.. among many other things, I thought it would be nice to open a channel for sharing ideas, tricks and tips, which maybe could be helpful also for others.

My background. I'm finnish media artist, living and working in Helsinki. I'm working with different materials and video, sound, electronics. I have worked with electronics since 2007, with MaxMSP (roughly) since 2003. Read my full biography here.