Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware HackingHandmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making--as well as creatively cannibalizing--electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Designed for practioners and students of electronic art, it provides a guided tour through the world of electronics, encouraging artists to get to know the inner workings of basic electronic devices so they can creatively use them for their own ends. Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while instructing the student in basic electronic principles, always from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry. |
Contents
TOOLS AND MATERIALS NEEDED | 3 |
GENERAL ADVICE | 7 |
LISTENING | 9 |
USING RADIOS AND COILS TO EAVESDROP ON HIKKEN ELECTROMAGNETIC MUSIC | 11 |
SPEAKER AS MICROPHONE MICROPHONE AS SPEAKERTHE SYMMETRY OF IT ALL | 17 |
TWITCHING LOUDSPEAKERS WITH BATTERIES | 19 |
AN ESSENTIAL SKILL | 23 |
USING PIEZO DISKS TO PICK UP TINY SOUNDS | 27 |
OSCILLATORS THAT MODULATE EACH OTHER | 129 |
DIVIDERS FEEDBACK LOOPS AND INSTABILITY USING OSCILLATORS AS CLOCKS FOR TOYS | 135 |
GATING DUCKING TREMOLO AND PANNING | 141 |
A SIMPLE CIRCUIT THAT GOES FROM CLEAN PREAMP TO TOTAL DISTORTION | 151 |
MODULATING OTHER AUDIO SOURCES WITH YOUR OSCILLATORS | 157 |
LOOKING | 161 |
TRANSLATING VIDEO SIGNALS INTO SOUND HACKING CHEAP CAMERA CIRCUITS AND EXTRACTING SOUNDS FROM REMOTE CON... | 163 |
MAKING ANIMATED MODERN DAGUERROTYPES AND ALTERNATIVE VIDEO PROJECTORS | 173 |
RESONATING OBJECTS WITH PIEZO DISKS TRANSFORMERS AND MOTORS | 37 |
PLAYING CREDIT CARDS | 47 |
CHEAP CONDENSER MIKE ELEMENTS MAKE GREAT MICROPHONES | 53 |
TOUCHING | 57 |
TRANSFORMING A PORTABLE RADIO INTO A SYNTHESIZER BY MAKING YOUR SKIN PART OF THE CIRCUIT | 59 |
FINDING THE CLOCK CIRCUIT IN TOYS | 65 |
CHANGING THE CLOCK SPEED FOR COOL NEW NOISES | 71 |
HOW TO UNDERSTAND RESISTORS | 77 |
PHOTOESISTORS PRESSURE PADS AND OTHER WAYS TO CONTROL AND PLAY YOUR TOY | 83 |
HOW TO UNDERSTAND DIFFERENT SWITCHES AND EVEN MAKE YOUR OWN | 97 |
FINISHING TOUCHES POWERING AND PACKAGING YOUR HACKED TOY | 101 |
BUILDING | 109 |
SIX OSCILLATORS ON A TWENTYCENT CHIP GUARANTEED TO WORK | 111 |
HOW TO SOLDER UP YOUR FIRST HOMEMADE CIRCUIT | 123 |
FINISHING | 177 |
VERY SIMPLE VERY CHEAP VERY CLEAN MIXERS AND WAYS OF CONFIGURING LOTS OF CIRCUITS | 179 |
CHEAP AND SIMPLE | 187 |
CONNECTING SENSORS TO COMPUTERS USING GAME CONTROLLERS | 191 |
IF YOU MUST HERES HOW TO PLUG INTO THE WALL WITH MINIMAL RISK | 203 |
RESOURCES | 211 |
REFERENCES AND NOTES WHOS WHO AND WHATS WHAT | 215 |
TOOLS AND MATERIALS NEEDED | 221 |
THE RULES OF HACKING | 225 |
NOTES ON THE AUDIO CD | 227 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 233 |
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Back cover | 247 |
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Common terms and phrases
9 volts 9-volt battery Alvin Lucier amplifier artists Assorted audio basic battery-powered blinking breadboard capacitor cassette CD player chapter 18 cheap chip Circuit Bending circuit board circuitry clip leads clock CMOS coil components Composing Inside Electronics cone connect connector contact mike Cracklebox David Behrman David Tudor devices distortion Drivers electrical tape electromagnetic electronic music feedback fingers flashlight frequency ground bus Hand tools hookup wire input instruments insulation Integrated Circuit interface Inverter joystick keyboard light magnet metal microphone mixer Nicolas Collins oscillator output jack permission Phil Archer photoresistor piezo disk pitch plastic plug potentiometer Radio Shack range recording resistor RSUK schematic Schmitt Trigger sensors shielded cable shown in figure signal simple soldering iron sound speaker Stephen Vitiello stereo strip substitute switch tape head terminal track transformer Visual Music voltage volts wall-wart Yasunao Tone
References to this book
Interactivation: Towards an E-cology of People, Our Technological ... Bert Bongers Limited preview - 2006 |