i'm off

6 weeks in georgia.


i've left a tiny exhibition in the exeter phoenix media centre, for people to play with while i'm away.

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blink and you'll miss it

exactly half of my set supporting damo suzuki

quite possibly.....

...the best band in the world, from the ashes of my favourite band ever
whole album to download here

also this week;

a deluge of live action and workshops in february and march, See the side columns >>>

some abstrad nicked my laptop, the thing of least value to me that i own, my posting is a bit trickier now ...

and won't be helped by my pissing off to georgia (east) for 6 weeks, expect all kinds of vintage communist junk when i return








have been massively distracted in my escape plans by












new/old gameboy synth exclusively ;# controlled by midi
trying like mad to build an interface, but its hard, and odd and no one else has done it


whilst trying to get pushpin going I dicovered lots of freeware gameboy music programs with much thanks to nitro2k1 and his excellent blog i flashed them all to my cart i bought from robb webb . lameboy is #1 if you are US.



last week I was interviewed on Jo Loosemores arts and culture show on Radio Devon. Mp3 D/l Here! (1Mb)


cory archangel is coming to exeter. events at the phoenix and exhibition at spacex. lots of info here particularly like dooogle

Dr Rhythm Video

Here's the mini doco showing my mods to the DR-110 :#

Dr Rhythm

I've been modifying my Boss DR-110 drum machine. It was the last all analogue beat box they produced. It already sounded lovely, but had little tweakability and very limited sync possibilities.
I added 6 trigger inputs for the drums. These are short circuit connections that are triggered via midi with my highly liquid MSA-P decoder.
Seeing as i had the box open I also added the tonal mods detailed on Dave Magnuson's ResonantFrequency site.
The pots and triggers for the mod are housed in a VHS cassette box, connected to the 110 via a 25pin d-type . I used every pin, plus the chassis of the connector. I plan to add the accent trigger in via the trigger out jack.
Here are some pictures. I'm editing a little video that I'll stick up as soon as.
I really like it.
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children of the drone

audio is here from the COTD session last saturday at mary archers church. thanks matt..x

*EDIT* ok it was weds 7th nov, but it certainly felt like a saturday night...... :#

still winning

damo last night was good, especially lion lies down and egg yum yum . have some video to prove it too.

here's the schematic for my ACITEST box. its a heavily modified hex-inverter oscillator, using 2 inverters as oscillators, one as a pre-amp/distortion and mega diode modulation as can be seen below in the schematic;

Im a WINNER!

Wow, can you believe it, I won the Circuit Bending Challenge! . Unbelievable! Acceptance speech below. Have already ordered my HighlyLiquid UMR
Hope I get a parasite too.

Bastardo and the Acitest

short clip of me vj'ing with dj bastardo at gob. modded nes, midines, mpc500, modded sony home studio and colour corrector


i found this image i made of the bend points on the nintendo, and the cic lockout pin that needs disabling to play multi-region carts

i also modded both nes that i use with stereo outs. this splits the audio signal before the mono mixer and gives you the square wave channels on one out and the triangle, noise + samples on another. it also gives a much cleaner signal, ie a much lower noise floor.
more info here



aaaand here's my latest noise box, the 'acitest'. A heavily modded hex inverter as seen in nic collins' .
book. Pics and schematic to follow, but for now, a little movie

*EDIT* here's the schematic;


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circuitchallenge

well, i did it. cdm has the lowdown.
was quite hectic, silly and hard work, but ultimately fun.
here's the evidence


*edit*apparently this is a shelby which not only speaks english, but furbish and shellbish .:#

Circuit bending challenge

Getlofi and CDM are running a bending challenge on oct28th. Go out, get a toy, bend it, document it, then upload it to the internet. i'm happy to host any submissions, including my own. the 28th is a sunday, so if your in exeter that means car boot then steptoes, right? there's a mystery prize too. check cdm + glf for more info.

double phew

and pictures here

phew

crazy weekend lots of fun was had at the ozrics gig aka The Hex Inverter
thanks to james 'bigtoe' , ollie 'badsector' , OMGPHIL! , simon and the squid , noisemonkey , george and ed and choirpad
reviewed here by purplenaturesoundz or here for non myspacers

also much love and gourmet pizza was shared at 'people on sunday' at the angel.

Thats tender man

This is art

WOW. by simply opening this page you have spun a record somewhere in denmark counter-clockwise. Confused, looky here, and here

The Hicks Inverter

Simon took some pictures of my workshop here

hex inverter

here's a little poster for some interesting stuff on saturday.

my workshop is a goer and kicks off tomorrow with a capacity crowd of 11 hardcore noise makers. there will be a parade after with free fancy dress hire to promote the fore st festival

gig on the 28th will henceforth be known as the hex inverter

Live Psychedelic Freak Out

Yes this sunday 2nd september at the Angel, Queen street, Exeter. Its an all day psyche art freakout with david from musicbox. I'll be manipulating 80's video game graphics and visual bent trickery in a warm wet late 60's style. also will be spinning some cold black vinyl from the days when my dad was cool.

*EDIT* gig is called 'people on sunday' and is organised by birds,orphans and fools, creators of some rather tasty psych comps available from otto retro and brazil videos both on fore st exeter. sunday will feature live music, spoken word, dj's and cinema. i'm on from 4pm. looks like its going to be monthly too :#

France was surprisingly cool btw. Fulfilled a lifetime ambition and 'sang' the muppets version of tenderly with the band. vid soon

Plus Tard

Off to france for a week to make my friends wedding go with a bang. Back on the29th.

new music from me

brand new, just for you ;# this will go up on visionfunk when i find the content mgr address.
i_vs_it 2'33 of me mp3

hope its chips

gameboy fanatic omgphil! is added to the fun on 28th sept with the ozrics. touch the unicorns horn ;#

me me me

A nice link all about me
Another nice link all about me

Bend with ME!

More Fun Things.Yes thats right not one but two circuit bending workshops in the month of september, in the mecca of western civilisation that is exeter. Come play with my toys and learn how to make your own. We'll be getting hands on and taking apart some boot fair bounty to make our own interplanetary communication devices. NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE OF ANYTHING NECESSARY.
Sat 8th+15th Sept.Book a place with the Phoenix Box office on 01392667080. £14/10 Concs. 1030-1630 ish. Use the contact form below for more info or to reserve a place.

Other Stuff. Performing live as support/reasonable alternative to the ozric tentacles at Exeter Phoenix on fri28th sept. I'll be providing the entertainment in the bar with Edward.j.Hicks, Simon Egan and YOU. Yes come join the party. Anything experimental that will freak out the hippys is acceptable. Contact me using the form below or just show up with your hoover and some contact mics.

AAAAAnd. Some content from this gig last saturday.As predicted I payed no attention to anything else happening that night. I did make the phoenix look pretty though. Thanks to Oli for pics and video. Here is his music.lots of pretty pictures;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olliehall/

Gadzooks

It worked. We now have 8 hours of 16 tracks of synchronous music for a theme park ride. Reaper is really nice, I'd strongly recommend it. It made all the tricky tasks like I/O routing and sync editing really straightforward. Btw the music is hilarious, I'll try to post some soon.

More free stuff . I'd been looking for a freeware stand alone drum sound synthesiser. Drumsynth is based on the same analogue synthesis used in all the classic tasty analogue drum machines.
Time to feed my MPC

And everyone loves hardware hacking right? These guys have got some really cute DIY circuits up, including a very simple sequencer and an envelope generator, oli?

Reaper

If it works for my job on friday, I love it and I'm not re-installing my kosher version of cubase.

A shareware multitrack audio and midi sequencer, with a ridiculous amount of features and a nice company ethos.

George LIVE! Sat11th August @ Exeter phoenix

A red hot sound and light monster truck party. See me launch my new range of vj toys and spin some ice cold black vinyl. Phoenix sun deck, boat drinks from 9. Here is more about the other acts, but you want to see me, right?

Barbie!

I can't get enough of this girl

pics here - nice overlays ollie

noise here - listen to 'Mystery Meat'

hicks made her pretty

must dash

more work so no toys for a week. will be playing live as soon as i get back tho, sat 4th, Northbridge Inn, St Davids, Exeter. have no idea what i will do and have no time to prepare.

bursary/workspace is going well, many new inventions, have lots of nes footage to edit + post here. also have 2 confirmed dates for participatory workshops - sat 8th and 15th of sept. CRB!

Have found an old review of me live on matthew drones blog.
scroll down to the post marked 'acid trombone'

also linking to ollies blog. after buying a modded barbie and nic collins' book he's now made a noise.

*EDIT* just found this, scroll down to find out what happened next - "This makes some pretty cool noises already," enthused Benjamin Goldstone, a mulleted Englishman....

modded nes

my nes was modded all by itself. i've added more. how-to and full story to follow. this is tv output of 'isolated warrior' from my dvcam pointing at secam telly. bon.

ps super crap quality. will make nicer soon.x

Content!

bending a barbie keyboard and building a mini ghetto amp. all done in one crazy day so adam can take it to glade festival




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gESfmjC6ycc

*EDIT*
that noise comes from connecting R36 to R13. 1M pot for pitch
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don't know how to rock the mic like you do

link to photos of sa5 and space from simon egan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88601116@N00/sets/72157600776133349/

have built lcd slide projector, midi trigger interface, trigger ins to boite diabolique, sa5 aleatron, and modded nes for seperate synth outs with midines. pics and noise at some point

Bending pictures

I'm on the road this month earning cash money to finance my next few months creativity, so no new creations. Have found some nice bending workshop pics of mine, from sept 05 in southampton and oct 06 in london.

http://www.outofthevoid.co.uk/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=18

http://homepage.mac.com/schottjohn/ben_goldstone/index.html

bleep awarded digi-media bursary

the media centre at exeter phoenix have awarded me one of their digital media bursaries. over the next six months i'll be setting up a workshop space, producing loads of crazy interactive noise toys, running workshops and creating a performance and film for the two short nights festival in december.
http://www.phoenixmedia.org.uk/bursaries.php

Atari Punk

here is my version of the wonderful atari punk console, a version of forest mimmsIII dual oscillator noise maker. my mod gives a nice hot output and much more bass than the original, plus an extra bassness control. more xtras include momentary switch for pulsing the bleeps and body contacts for randomness, including using the whole enclosure as a BC! i've been knocking these out for UK£45 in custom cases with hicks stlye paint jobs. hook me up f you want one.


here's my adapted schematic,



here's some noise
www.visionfunk.com/uploads/hahapunk.mp3


and here's everything you need for atari punks
www.getlofi.com/?p=518

George and Ed go crazy and wild

we're going to be launching Hahafresh, live at the Northbridge Inn, exeter, uk on fri 20th april. crazy improvised space nonsense plus the 1st ever hahafresh bring and buy sale, come bag yourself a noisemaker

twanggggg!

Hey Hey, welcome to my world. This is the place for my new toys, inventions and crackpot schemes.
One of my first ever bends was the 'orang-a-twang' >>>>>

a spaced out childrens dance mat noise box


http://www.visionfunk.com/uploads/twang_sample.mp3

*EDIT*

the twang pictured is now owned by DJ Vadim, and was used on a track on his new album the soundcatcher on BBE. No idea which track, I'm still trying to find the sample x

http://www.bbemusic.com/djvadim/