Yo! This video happened, in germany, last November. Skip through the German bits if you need to

Circuit Control - Das Lötspektakel in Dresden from knrd on Vimeo.
Cheers to Alvy

Haha-Fresh!

Just dug out an old artist statement from 2008. Good shit! Here for posterity!;

An experiment to turn found objects into electronic sound generators, that allows non-intuitive, accidental and unpredictable output patterns.

The creative product is intended as an audio visual physically responsive installation, encouraging visitors to see, hear, feel, play and ultimately become a part of the machine. Unintentional modulation is expected, with the machine responding to temperature, background noise, physical interaction  and RF interference.

To modify and creatively destroy that which society finds redundant. Old toys, broken radios, unwanted televisions and the detritus of forgotten industry, is shaped and re-worked into generators of other-worldly noise. The humble childrens toy transformed into a subharmonic generator, the 60's lifestyle sunlamp into a freeform morse jazz machine, the bakelite radio into noxious metal audio conductor. All this, and more, is possible with the broken mind and happy heart.

Childrens electronic toys with complicated microprocessor brains are reduced to random phoneme creators.Unbelievable noise and new levels of control are created by applying basic electronic circuits and logic to random noise and non-intuitive home made and creatively modified found objects. Tactile surfaces, levers and knobs, light and radio frequency (RF) sensors bring those that play into the movement often referred to as 'anti-theory'

The devices become chance music creators with or without human intervention. The introduction of skin resistance, bio electrical signals and the casting of shadows introduce the idea of a human interface, did I just do that?

To allow hi tech osmosis, processors and hard disks are used as radio frequency modulators, infra-red remote controls reborn as random burst noise sources and  digital errors and the failing compression algorithm used as both vision and audio sources, each influencing the other, like reciprocal friends locked in a feedback loop of ever increasing emotion.

One day we will be forced to make do with junk, broken toys and hi-tech detritus. Some people will have a head start.

We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg

YO!
So, the Gig vvv  went well and I am suitably sated as far as the silly business of organising events is concerned. The cool thing was the reactive RGB led foam, and projections, as seen here;

The lamps are ANALOGUE rgb strips, in packing foam. The control is the crossover section of this circuit;

Thanks to my crew at SGMK for that! It's also another example of something that I do , A LOT. That is, taking someone elses awesome idea and finding a way to make it my own. I keep doing it, and it's awesome, and it's why as an artist, collaboration is the key.

I'm going to try and get the lamps to mirror the 1Pixel closer, and thanks to long time collaborator (+foam legend) Uwe's advice I'm going to try running them at 16 or 17 Volts.

The projections are a simple resolume project, just some rotating grids made within the software, with some sizing parameters linked to the macbooks microphone input. The COOL accident was seeing how f**ing cool it looked projecting ONTO the crowd. 

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Bad Boy Bubby

What kind of peenarse has a blog then just sits on all his media, huh?
1stsiez i'm doing another gig. Me and Beatabet doing awesome live electronic   music and generative light installations.

DA-10
https://www.facebook.com/DA10.Music?fref=ts
BLUE DUCKS
https://soundcloud.com/records-on-ribs/sets/blue-ducks-heavy-air
FOREIGN SKIN
https://www.facebook.com/ForeignSkin?fref=ts
MORGAN HISLOP
http://soundcloud.com/morganhislop
HYPNOTIZED
https://www.facebook.com/HypnotizedBand?fref=ts



Had an awesome holiday in dresden. met the guys from bastl/standuino and built their new trinity modules.
Here's a video of us performing in the Bastl orchestra with the devices;

and the obligatory freestyle techno jam with Alvin...

FINALLY, some more action with my robot. Probably the last gig before a major rehaul of kit and music!

Haha-Fresh! Live in Brighton

I'm starting a night at Stickymikes Frog bar in Brighton, UK. 1st party is Sunday 7th April, 8-whatevs. FB PAGE!

With live gameboy chiptune from myself and Forbidden Colour. Bleepy tunes from DJ Ten Kings. Live Illustration from Hicks and freeplay retro Videogaming.
The idea is to be able to play and listen to music that I really like!
Here's a spotify playlist!


Badboy respect to Michael Una for the poster design. Check out UNATRONICS
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CMOS to Nanoloop Sync

(img from http://gieskes.nl/)

Thanks to Circuit Ben and the info on Gijs's site

I wanted to have my gameboy playing Nanoloop to be in sync with my ROBOT. Due to the fact that the internet is AWESOME and thanks to Circuit Ben and the info on Gijs's site, I did it!

The cable is simply the 9v pk-pk square wave from my clock gen fed into the gb link ports.

The only pins connected are ground and Nano sync in as shown below; I used a 2K resistor on the sync input for protection. it seems to make it more stable

(img from http://gieskes.nl/)

Here's a video showing it working!

*EDIT* ok it seems NL gets a little upset with a 9v pulse. I regulated the clock power supply to 5v and removed the 2k resistor and all seems happy now 

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2 classics

Here's 2 blasts from the past 

Robots

AHOY! Here's some robot stuff. I made  costumes with ALVY, for the Lewes Fireworks parade. Was well cool. I had my ANTICLOCK box (schematic below) switching 4 channels of LED strips in packing foam. I also clocked my Korg Monotribe from the AC, which ran into a kaos pad mini, and into my minirig. It was fun and I hope to make a video of it soon. The chest plate is a paint tray secured with a bunjy.

I played a gig with the outfit at the Holditdown xmas party. This time I used Nanoloop 1.3 running on a gameboy classic with a boss DD20 for FX. I tried the most outrageous sync chain for the GB, but this was patchy, so the outfit and music were independently synced.

The gig was funny for many reasons. My favourite was the abuse we were getting from the meatheads when we were dj'ing turning into love and raving when the beats and flashing lights started.
A surprising bonus was hallucinating a lot when the mask slipped over my eyes (often).

I really like the LED strip/foam combo, cheers to Uwe + Jordis, and Alvy for the inspiration.

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