Vibraphonic 08

The Vibraphonic festival is coming up this spring in exeter. And, it would be incomplete without a heavydose of Haha-fresh approved activities, so.....Deep breath;

George Lazenbleep Vibraphonic Sessions 08

Dusty Toy Space Junk
An open, free workshop, taking apart and modifying children's toys to create wild and wonderful sound generators. No experience of anything required.
Explore the wonderful world of circuit bending with George Lazenbleep. A Vibraphonic special! We will be creatively modifying battery powered children's toys to turn them into weird noise machines. Come and see a demonstration of George's crazed creations then try it for yourself. All ages welcome. Toys provided.
Sat 1st March
The Globe Inn, Exeter 12-5pm, Free Entry,


An evening of experimental music and new cinema. Haha-fresh present the Man from Uranus, SJ Esau and George Lazenbleeps dusty drop-outs. Interspersed with original films in our tiny cinema.

Following on from the Dusty Toy Space Junk workshop George Curates an evening of Sonic Nonsense and Chin stroking visualities.


Headliner MFU is a wild and unpredictable performer, specialising in vintage electronic equipment, and wild live manipulation to create library music and film scores for things that don't exist. Cabaret genius or Old wave surf punk, hold tight and get drunk.


SJ Esau is a poet. Carefully sticking together and looping sounds and instruments to make miniature pop epics. His history is tasty , his live creations are tastier.
Sat 1st March
The Globe Inn, Exeter 8-12pm, Free Entry,


Build a fun box with George Lazenbleep. An intense workshop where participants will create and modify a portable noise party machine. Featuring DIY electronics, Circuitbending and heavy recycling.
A more involved workshop, we will construct, modify and re-house a noise generator and mini-amplifier to take away and terrorise the community. Less free-style than the circuit bending workshops, we will follow a plan, build our machines, then experiment with them to find the inner beast/beat.
No experience necessary, but potentially more suited to the tinkerers. All equipment and resources provided, though you may wish to bring a pretty box.
Sat 15th March
Exeter Phoenix, 10-5pm, £10

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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...... :#