Digital Resurrection

OVERVIEW:

The concept I'm using is that of giving musical life to “dead” electronics I found lying around the Knoll. To do this, I will mic the modified garbage instruments, and run them through various filters for effects, and, teaming this with a feedback loop, I'll be able to make live improvised songs out of this garbage.

The PD patch I'll be using can be found here, it is Travis Skare's from Music 220a in the Fall of 2003.

So far, I have made some modifications to the found objects (using guitar strings, a couple nails, and some duct tape), to turn them into “instruments.” I tried to keep my modifications as subtle as possible, and have intentionally avoided spending money on the instrument itself. Obviously, the mics and computer to process the signals with are expensive products, and the option of working with analog is attractive for this reason. However, part of the beauty of this project is the idea that, with the right tools, anything can be turned into a new instrument, which can change the way you look at everything you interact with. It sort of goes along with futurism and musiq concrete's ideas.

More updates on the way.

After looking over different patches via the internet that were all either much more or much less than what I was looking for, I decided to use one made by a ccrmalite who I am also working with in 154. It's link is above. The contact microphones will be done Wednesday, so I will hopefully be recording this week, and possibly bringing in more cool sounding garbage

While experimenting with my instrument and the looper, it broke. I've now found another, sturdier object and have reconstructed her. The goal now is to get some good recordings while I still can