Diving into DIY Electronic Music

April 18, 2011

So I recently started doing some DIY stuff with electronics and music. I’m starting out by putting together some kits from various websites and going through Nicolas Collins’ book: Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking. Once I got over the initial hesitation to just try and solder, its been really fun. I still [...]

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Mini-Composer for iPhone

April 18, 2011

I was playing with this free little app the other day. It has a very cool presentation with little animations and a slick looking black and white interface. It is a (very) basic 16 step polyphonic sequencer with some drums and a “random” button. Unfortunately, the free price tag means that it is very simple [...]

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site refocus

April 7, 2011

I’ve decided to stop worrying about keeping this site very specific to simply my music making endeavors. Recently I have been learning about (and trying to try) some circuit bending, electronics work, simple hacking, and other fun stuff. Basically I’ll just share whatever here since in the end it will probably all relate to a [...]

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Sister Winter by Sufjun Stevens (cover)

December 5, 2010

Sister Winter (cover) I wanted to cover some Christmas songs this year, and this original song by Sufjan is one of my favorites. Some of the style choices (autotune, etc) are inspired by Sufjan Steven’s latest album, Age of Adz.

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My Omnichord

December 5, 2010

I got this cool instrument a couple of weeks ago now and have been playing with it a lot since. I got it used off of ebay (they don’t make this model anymore) on a whim. It is sort of like an electronic auto-harp, with chord buttons and a “strum plate”, and even some walking [...]

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autotune, videos, etc

December 1, 2010

I’ve been toying more with the idea of putting some kind of visuals to my music, and I threw this together the other day. You may notice that it is one of my previous songs with one difference: the presence of an autotune like effect, or to be more specific, Garageband’s pitch correction. I found [...]

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“Beard” video

November 7, 2010

I spent a couple of hours today putting together a video to go with my “Beard” song. More of an experiment than anything else, but I figured I’d share it anyway.

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Ellatron App Review for iPad and iPhone

August 17, 2010

Ellatron comes in two main versions, a “Pro” version for the iPhone/iPod Touch and an “HD” version for the iPad. The Ellatron is a Mellotron inspired app that comes with a a dozen or more sounds, dual keyboards, and some cool other features. What’s a Mellotron? From Wikipedia: The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard [...]

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