tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30071531052806433962024-03-19T04:26:50.478-07:00Peter B: Just Babout synthesizers and the invisiblePeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-34168457848151408112023-01-02T03:32:00.000-08:002023-01-02T03:32:13.563-08:00Performance Notes for Solar Sounders on the Canal, May 2022<p>Near Patch Point on Forsterstr in Kreuzberg, Berlin, flows a canal slowly, with a peaceful bank of flowery bushes. A French cafe is always bustling with expats. This sandy shore receives sunlight most reliably, compared with the urban canyon of old houses that Patch Point sits in. There the birds echo accross the buildings, many high twitters, and in the evening a songful blackbird who claims the street trees by its everchanging, multi-resonant patterns. </p><p>To perform an afternoon of solar sounders, the sandy canal bank was targeted, and thus thereafter, a demonstration of vegan fishing would be folded into the performance. The opportunity would not be missed, to combine my two favorite sports of center-pin reel casting, with experimental off-grid electronic sound art. </p><p>To prepare for this piece, I had finished a new case design that combines two of my favorite aspects of woodworking: computer scripting for efficient and tight-fitting parts in fine hardwood, and scrapcrafting with glue... The scraps are mini lumber from the edges of old prints (previously cut pieces of hardwood). Often this way I can save many beautiful patterns that would otherwise be burnt.</p><p>The case features a parabolic bulge that houses the panel and mount, and two angled chubs for speakers. The panel supplies nine volts and comes in a few different sizes, roughly corresponding to frequency energy for soprano and bass voices. After gluing the structure together, the sides are crafted with scraps simply glued on, then everything is sanded like its from Pier 1. Yes, this is how I chase my ideal 90s import store.</p><p>The ground mount is a new addition to the solar sounders, and this piece thus concerns itself with ground. A steel pipe, purchased at Bauhaus, screws in firmly to an aluminum flange on the underside of each box, after it is hammered into the ground. The flange and thus whole assemby is connected to ground of the solar circuit. Thus we can create or even play with the ground connection between each instrument. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2Va4KX16Zabi3KzS68xEWMK_LlBDWDvaQvbjtw7MGST6lm-ADxk5XsJdM1cmKSDhFT1TV_jcHLVPM_yEejdCEpYwlwoYOFOY1qcUgfin5k_MLc73bt5tU8oScAAAsjQb8DmUou3U00syEadoGpy7kJFFxY7aDCuJlpfUcwRUW3qhlHD1i0XRLttY/s4032/IMG_5792.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK2Va4KX16Zabi3KzS68xEWMK_LlBDWDvaQvbjtw7MGST6lm-ADxk5XsJdM1cmKSDhFT1TV_jcHLVPM_yEejdCEpYwlwoYOFOY1qcUgfin5k_MLc73bt5tU8oScAAAsjQb8DmUou3U00syEadoGpy7kJFFxY7aDCuJlpfUcwRUW3qhlHD1i0XRLttY/s320/IMG_5792.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Traditional banana plugs were mounted on each box, and connected in to the androgynous pulse-brain within its circuit. We listened to each without any patched points, while I poured canal water gently into the sand at the base of each one. There was a simple experiment to be done, asking if we could hear a modulation with this wet makeshift ground for it all. THe banana cords were connected between each instruments, and what was heard as un-syncronised birdsong, became synchronous.</p><p>While the experiment was running, I threaded a european canal bobber onto a long rod with light line, and affixed it with banding. Three lead-free splitshot (ROhS) anchored the bobber upright from beneath, and they tapered in size properly from largest at the top to tiny at the bottom. As I said, this is vegan fishing so just a wisp of line hung beneath the tiniest splitshot. I could assure protection of my audience as I started with only underhand casts but moved to overhand once I got my courage up.</p><p>The weather was a perfect mix of everything chaotic. It had rained earlier but the sand was still quite dry. There was strong blasts of sun followed by deep depths of cloud, which is the best most natural solar dynamic, as far as musical expression is concerned. As a bonus, the wind came from many directions, gusting up the canal in ripples, and even coming from behind me to get a rare cast with the wind. </p><p>As the instruments clucked gently and resonant in the shade and bloomed in the sun, I bided my time watching the bobber slowly drift down the canal. The analogy was about ground and the canal. Current flows in the channel, but it can only be measured if there is a still ground under it all. A bobbermontage will also demonstrate a gradient if weighting is properly spaced, as current is fastest on the surface and slowest on the bottom. I joked that I was sensing bites but no one in the audience got the joke.</p><p>The audience was there to experience electronic music at patch point, and drink beer later in the evening. This is the time of Superbooth, and many visitors had just arrived from out of town. </p><p>The sand is a compelling medium for performance because of the electro-shamanism of ceremonially imbibing its earth. Vegan fishing was a great way to bide time non-violently.</p><p><br /></p>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-6675940908685587792023-01-02T03:21:00.002-08:002023-01-08T12:32:11.116-08:00GRBL ESP32 CNC CASE<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qZZPANw5xpNX5DFS8BoGGN8tPridaZsacoyD7anziI6aoj1rrOUIlT8ZBIjNbtXb6CiGGvCoILrVBNpT6VIOZ1-kjuNZ7OQxHbRJgOOHnvY2iGc417izXWb260avqmxMf4_knAVevHAJWCyTlJ5MAmwk7xO8BufX21gSPH1nFD2VqwA0M9h_IDit/s4032/IMG_5527.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qZZPANw5xpNX5DFS8BoGGN8tPridaZsacoyD7anziI6aoj1rrOUIlT8ZBIjNbtXb6CiGGvCoILrVBNpT6VIOZ1-kjuNZ7OQxHbRJgOOHnvY2iGc417izXWb260avqmxMf4_knAVevHAJWCyTlJ5MAmwk7xO8BufX21gSPH1nFD2VqwA0M9h_IDit/s320/IMG_5527.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This is the Berlin (wood) workshop. We currently have three 6040s, one 9040, and we are building a collection of 3040s upstairs for little work. Managing all these CNC machines at once, in a loud and dusty environment, required some rethinking. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The traditional way to run CNCs is with a desktop computer assigned to each one, that sit nexts to it and you go to it every time you need to change a job. There exist, however, wonderful open source operators for arduino nano (GRBL) and ESP32 (GRBL ESP32). These make the woodshop into an internet of cutting things!</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">So, in GRBL ESP32, each machine is on the local network, and has a name that you type (such as tony.local) into a web browser. There are seven signals that then go to the CNC machine through a printer cable. We are currently working on making musical sense out of these square waves, but this report concerns itself only with making CNC machines work the best.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Each ESP32 fits perfectly inside a Busch-Jaeger "Ocean" Steckdose, which was already being used for the electrical wiring in the workshop. When I got one for myself I was rekindled on home improvement case hacks. It even has a rubbery cable relief that perfectly fits one usb cord and one printer cable, which is split up and soldered directly to the board. Extract all the electrical plug furnishings, and the protective flap on the front leaves a perfect little space for the SD card, also wired directly to the board.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Eventually, I realized something about the dusty, noisy environment. These are little computers, being left in the cold woodshop, with tons of electrical noise emanating from the spindles. Our biggest CNC was crashing a lot, and I made a plan to separate its grounds with opto-isolators. Now the ESP32 has its own private ground, which it does not share with the ground of the CNC driver. You can see in the following picture, floating above a layer of kapton tape, seven licorice jelly beans which are the optoisolators for each channel:</div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrp1S4d__TnZbNHtnPs_ufNU9EdyhdCcthJigyaSKjsMhKY37_t5c3OQ1IDXyeJrsqDs3ENTKaNwVA5TcQ7fbu5KQIpsXbX-eC2ZZsEwI2gJQtI1jzLI4q2RiDkQlR-HTGGYx4oYj4ks-nsaWYjkn2UWxIizEhQ-rl8HzMb2zBUA51x14oHebVZwxp/s3024/E3CF240F-64DD-4B36-B387-3E853D9D1CF5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrp1S4d__TnZbNHtnPs_ufNU9EdyhdCcthJigyaSKjsMhKY37_t5c3OQ1IDXyeJrsqDs3ENTKaNwVA5TcQ7fbu5KQIpsXbX-eC2ZZsEwI2gJQtI1jzLI4q2RiDkQlR-HTGGYx4oYj4ks-nsaWYjkn2UWxIizEhQ-rl8HzMb2zBUA51x14oHebVZwxp/s320/E3CF240F-64DD-4B36-B387-3E853D9D1CF5.jpeg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Inside an Ocean Steckdose with ESP32, seven licorice jellybeans are there to optoisolate grounds.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZMLBhgU_oEEk1V233pMSvtfC1kttio0l34dc1wK-qeZBImDIJL7vf2-hpX33g69DtqiTg3dOWPssG1HZOVO053yBb0LMb2sgh8TCpUsPxfZnVfduM_QJDwbze9E5spqG8ZL6ekr2qMYT-bdAo9ELJSHwaIhJ6cdV3rHCSB80TPNtr-jM4kIYIeyr/s3024/IMG_6368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZMLBhgU_oEEk1V233pMSvtfC1kttio0l34dc1wK-qeZBImDIJL7vf2-hpX33g69DtqiTg3dOWPssG1HZOVO053yBb0LMb2sgh8TCpUsPxfZnVfduM_QJDwbze9E5spqG8ZL6ekr2qMYT-bdAo9ELJSHwaIhJ6cdV3rHCSB80TPNtr-jM4kIYIeyr/s320/IMG_6368.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>how to prep the opto-isolator spider ticks.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDBXttuDzIWYGsYGWIAZ-651P0rfJQdPolhKmzxPg8w0lrNzzwJTp0w6oivXn9qDEdWiSb7a3rBqj0M3aevr6wwOtLmKno6M9_8IpxGemeGDZaxaZrEXY9WiIITS5LyYETNTvwdfXJumhWX968zCr2e1aIV_EUBnYpgvAHZZY1GFcKOLcNoESb5-C/s3024/IMG_6369.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzDBXttuDzIWYGsYGWIAZ-651P0rfJQdPolhKmzxPg8w0lrNzzwJTp0w6oivXn9qDEdWiSb7a3rBqj0M3aevr6wwOtLmKno6M9_8IpxGemeGDZaxaZrEXY9WiIITS5LyYETNTvwdfXJumhWX968zCr2e1aIV_EUBnYpgvAHZZY1GFcKOLcNoESb5-C/s320/IMG_6369.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Another brashless view inside an Ocean Steckdose.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYanbFCWxhQEZ1WS2KEfPMd0QD_tQLg74WjU_wUzx5gFpzToajv8_1AMiX7h7SJ73DZdrhCZNDV0oJ8fUNaHKUOJ8kiMyzsvJ1SWrji9rzBDdFPheR_LKuYPgJfRFG_KuFJocf7dI0JQIJq_lRYFbn1OQLSviWCBminQbHAYTThc0o8YPzPMmWY0k7/s3024/IMG_6371.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYanbFCWxhQEZ1WS2KEfPMd0QD_tQLg74WjU_wUzx5gFpzToajv8_1AMiX7h7SJ73DZdrhCZNDV0oJ8fUNaHKUOJ8kiMyzsvJ1SWrji9rzBDdFPheR_LKuYPgJfRFG_KuFJocf7dI0JQIJq_lRYFbn1OQLSviWCBminQbHAYTThc0o8YPzPMmWY0k7/s320/IMG_6371.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Schematic of the opto-isolator circuit, after Oskar Schlemmer.<br /> </i> <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfwmhpCESin4w4zt5efAPwLl9W5ac8eSAIT93BQJmFL0IwLJPbsE4nB4igtjnYwbM_sAfXe5bq6yJqbk6zhJ4696vMRarDeniIWB2Pyolr_-QP8LtxpLfZrviASsTNdHWl-jEOtJYIu8g1pgbDlilpxGida8SY1LYHpP8oSJfMfdoOJbPBU1S5rzT/s3024/9F5723FD-A95C-41CB-BA16-5695DF205EB9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfwmhpCESin4w4zt5efAPwLl9W5ac8eSAIT93BQJmFL0IwLJPbsE4nB4igtjnYwbM_sAfXe5bq6yJqbk6zhJ4696vMRarDeniIWB2Pyolr_-QP8LtxpLfZrviASsTNdHWl-jEOtJYIu8g1pgbDlilpxGida8SY1LYHpP8oSJfMfdoOJbPBU1S5rzT/s320/9F5723FD-A95C-41CB-BA16-5695DF205EB9.jpeg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Ocean Steckdose with GRBL ESP32, and in front, an Aquastar Steckdose with GRBL on a nano, which requires the nintendo game-style controller for movement and program control. This option is also solid, especially at 9600 baud.</i> <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrX1Pmzv14leGoGsyz7BJHSpkYUMbrRc1dK7iIXwwobvwaPxgNyg5NUu6O2k6eq8p08_JgMVYz6Oyc6K-UEzVQsIQernvCvUYEGyp1ds_MJps6XMGHzx0jaMl3wv3fZGAhfA5YFubM3EUhxYUr9njd-x9Pho5a83wTu3ZA5SoFmPvuqtgYWy5nu5D/s3024/1D6418E8-64F3-4B33-A575-140801D46298.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKrX1Pmzv14leGoGsyz7BJHSpkYUMbrRc1dK7iIXwwobvwaPxgNyg5NUu6O2k6eq8p08_JgMVYz6Oyc6K-UEzVQsIQernvCvUYEGyp1ds_MJps6XMGHzx0jaMl3wv3fZGAhfA5YFubM3EUhxYUr9njd-x9Pho5a83wTu3ZA5SoFmPvuqtgYWy5nu5D/s320/1D6418E8-64F3-4B33-A575-140801D46298.jpeg" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Another view inside the Ocean Steckdose with ESP32. You can see the cathode resistors (around 150 ohm) for each optoisolator. Red button is hold, and there's a resume button on the opposite side.<br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i> <br /></div>Here is a handy chart that should work with any parallel (printer cable) driver on any machine bigger than a 3040.:<br />
<table border="30">
<tbody><tr>
<th>signal name<br /></th>
<th>esp32 pin<br /></th>
<th>parallel cable pin<br /></th>
<th>nano pin<br /></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>xstep</td>
<td>12</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>xdir</td>
<td>14<span> </span></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>5<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ystep<br /></td>
<td>26<br /></td>
<td>4<br /></td>
<td>3<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ydir<br /></td>
<td>15<br /></td>
<td>5<br /></td>
<td>6<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>zstep<br /></td>
<td>27<br /></td>
<td>6<br /></td>
<td><div>4<br /></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>zdir<br /></td>
<td>33<br /></td>
<td>7<br /></td>
<td><div>7<br /></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>spindle PWM<br /></td>
<td>2<br /></td>
<td>1<br /></td>
<td><div>11<br /></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<p>Note, the SD card is wired according to the standard hacker instructions, where you solder directly to a microSD holder.<br /></p><p>Under the 3040 size, CNCs don't usually offer a printer cable connection. They are usually only connected by USB, but usually
they have their own GRBL driver and you can always hack into the TX and RX pins
to use a nintendo-style (also called "random-style" in the 3018 manual)
controller. </p>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-14429035347221057952021-11-15T01:00:00.003-08:002021-11-15T01:00:26.241-08:00Shbobo Fret<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAdmE8XlVmo53QPwNmA2K4Pn5jq-ORT-DzGIAFs6waXf5WOgNBdZ-ZirqU3DE9LiDMhPDLgjwlMRk4QnNl3DCX6y1QDy-3wLWQNswQ9aZJxEIBqkv6x9dmrZy2QtHUadmgc6hyxhbii0/s1754/shboboFRETpaper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1754" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYAdmE8XlVmo53QPwNmA2K4Pn5jq-ORT-DzGIAFs6waXf5WOgNBdZ-ZirqU3DE9LiDMhPDLgjwlMRk4QnNl3DCX6y1QDy-3wLWQNswQ9aZJxEIBqkv6x9dmrZy2QtHUadmgc6hyxhbii0/s320/shboboFRETpaper.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /> </p><p>Trying to get this cast in either brass or nickel silver.</p><p>Meanwhile I found a company who says they can machine them from brass.</p><p>Will make shtars much nicer to make. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04ILoIQAHomF016DDrpvcEJWp7PImAH82183egRiZOw1Qsnhj0n2MrgVZVzcorEZAwGSwkCJKaPYYFTrlnmsTd6gSji6tXwL69b83K-RbA6w_hR4sDEXf0lyeI57lMXstMnZupGbzN4g/s686/nannt.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="686" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04ILoIQAHomF016DDrpvcEJWp7PImAH82183egRiZOw1Qsnhj0n2MrgVZVzcorEZAwGSwkCJKaPYYFTrlnmsTd6gSji6tXwL69b83K-RbA6w_hR4sDEXf0lyeI57lMXstMnZupGbzN4g/s320/nannt.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p></p>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-7530660687522137912021-10-01T10:23:00.002-07:002021-10-01T10:23:51.118-07:00Lecture on Bauhaus vs Hornbach<p> On September 19, 2021, as part of the SUPERBOOTH non-activities, I delivered a lecture at Patch Point on the topic of Bauhaus versus Hornbach. Here is a description of the lecture:</p><p><i>I will procure a laser pointer to narrate twenty slides about the
history of the bauhaus movement and its relationship to hornbach. My
words will be mangled/backworded by cocoquantus that we sell at patch
point, a solid group of interesting people.</i></p><p>I did not procure a laser pointer, and I did not pursue a slideshow with projector, so the program became the usual, a narrated benchmark test procedure of cocoquantus. In retrospect, I realize that I realized quite a few things about the oranging sector, and what it means to be an orange store, of home materials or synths. And since this is an orange blog, it seems important to document here. So here's the google slides, what could have happened was awesome:</p>
<center><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="200" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQSK4ylSmlsoiuFFRi9U0Gi0J_fD5XJD_ujG65SWoMIKCuOUDtF8Yb2IJWccYi1GDI6ES1Q59m-hEDZ/embed?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></center>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-37372841142695624952021-04-04T10:27:00.003-07:002021-04-04T10:27:32.868-07:00Troutnalysis 1: Petrogenesis<i>My name is Pete, professor of fictional electronics, and for your
computer music lesson, shall not subject your piece to strict analysis,
but rather employ a meta-sport diversion called "troutnalysis."</i><br />
<br />
<i>Troutnalysis is part of my "interrogajoke" series: interrogating topics in a post- fashion by employing jokes. Troutnalysis is a three part course: Petrogenesis, on the relationship between sport and petroleum; Action, on the subconscious need for mystique; and a response to Georgina Borne's ethnography of IRCAM.</i><h2>
Petrogenesis<i> </i></h2>
<i><i>Author of essay: Petroleum Bottle </i></i><br />
<i>Primary Duties: Mesh/messmaking, Facilitating objets-stereos.</i><br />
<i>Secondary Duties: fishing, driving petroleum vehicles</i><br />
<br />
The
ribbon of highway sometimes runs up with the stream of salmon (fishing
in the pavement). My trout-shaped car trolls the pavement, sometimes I
note an old man on a boat. All arts make someone suffer. Fly fishing is
an art, which literally makes the trout suffer. Who suffers from your
art?<br />
<br />
My name is Petroleum Bottle, because that's how a girl named Danielle made fun of me in third grade. I
cried that night. My older brother spoke of my girlfriend, it felt like making fun, and I cried
some more. I sobbed at my dad that I didn't want a girlfriend. How wrong
would I be.<br />
<br />
Like a primordial dream of treasure in a cave, the Soviet theory of abiotic petrogenesis. Mineral energy springs forth underground, from the rock itself, not from crushed up plant material. Driving a petroleum bottle up the mountain is communing with these powerful rocks. The mountain creeks have a rainbow sheen, a natural slick that irradiate a collective hallucination in fly fisherman, as they
naturally flow with a small amount of petroleum.<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>I have to admit that I am somewhat competitive when it comes to fly
fishing, but that is because I entrust you or part of my fold, or become
part, and take my comments as curmudgeonly generalizations on human
nature.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
The economy of fishing derives from petroleum industry: you must
drive to a mountain lake to do it. It also deals with the technical and
toxic metals: lead is used to bring baits to the bottom fish. Lead is bio-active, changing and impeding an animal chemically. Fly fishing is somewhat resistant to the toxic metal, preferring no
weight at all, some brass and copper. The most conscientious fisherman uses tungsten, it is heaviest and bio-neutral.<br />
<br />
<i><i>like the website "gink and gasoline"
which means petroleum based fish lure ointment plus the automobile
locomotion to home in on a fish in the mountains; they won't know what
hit them! Petroleum Bottle did!</i></i><br />
<i><i> </i> </i><br />
What
is the lead fish? What fish is most "at home" with this heavy metal? To
know, we must think of all fish and what alchemical symbol belongs with
each; the sharks of the deep, and the lighter fatty fish of the shores
that taste so good when smoked. <br />
<h2>
Onion Sandwich Man</h2><p>
Ernest Hemingway wrote a modern fly-fishing
story early in the career; it was obviously a crucial metaphor to him
and potent with analogy to war and industry. Fly-fishing is, in fact,
ancient, as we will detail later in the chapter on Aelian. Hemingway
lived at a time when modern plastics and composite materials
revolutionized fly-fishing, yet it tied to the ancient technique of
fooling a fish and eating it; there still is violence, perhaps more
because of the efficient way that plastic line casts.<br />
<br />
Fishing,
in "The Great Two Hearted River" is a metaphor for the war technologies
of World War I. That war was the most efficient to be known thus far,
an exponential growth from previous ones due to technology. Fly-fishing,
too, became more exponentially more efficient. Yet, the protagonist
eats only an onion sandwich for most of the book: he is post-haunted in
the ruins of war. For this reason, we call him the Onion Sandwich Man.
Let us perform a psychoanalysis of this "onion-sandwich-man" (OSM).<br />
<br />
He
is a deep individual, not just simply surviving
in the wild. He may be in a wild place, but he is wilder inside and this
makes him a complicated individual. He is not fly-fishing the wilderness, but a burning town. It's not just survival, it's chaos
magic. There's a non-rhythmn with his actions and how he catches fish:
the first one he released so gently, the second one was big and he lost
it. The third he kept. Finally he gutted them. Only later in
the book is tension released when he slaughters the fish. <br />
<br />
He eats a simple, onion sandwich. This act of improvisation marks him as magical, an alchemist of sulfury into savory. The
onion sandwich itself is a red flag of chaos, the sulfur smell added to his
breath, makes him rub up against others disjointedly, the sulfur smell
is a symbol of noise and tumultuous change. The only scent allowed on
one's flies should be garlic, rubbed on your hand and your sandwich. <br />
<br />
The
town is burning and he's eating an onion sandwich: that is a flag of
chaos magic. That is, the art of contingency, leveraging weather (a
sudden freshet or riffling breeze) or circumstance: burning town, only
an onion to be found. It is said that the gods do not mark fishing as
time wasted (even when skunked), because the fisher is engaging in the
chaos computer (programmed by god), learning patience, and awareness to
sudden opportunities.<br />
<br />
Tying flies is a natural technology, that has been mixed with synthetic technologies:
plastics research, nail polish, and electronics parts such as wire and Mylar bag. After the world wars, surplus materials such as copper wire
became widespread in flies. My uncle was in a radio shack on Guam, did
not see much action but many water buffalo, and repaired electronics
in the morning. It was boring, but using his hands, he created a
nice little shack. The same in his guest bedroom, using ostrich herls
and rooster capes, he prepared to meet nature again with his new nylon
lines. Time flies
with these materials is learning how to be at peace with them.<br />
<br />The onion sandwich man is surplus personality
from war; he is trying to finding out how to be at peace. He's at odds with the
water, at best adapting to it. there he
encountered stange animals in mud ventures. He never told me any war stories, just about the muddy electronics shack, and the yellowstone cutthroat.<br /></p><p>What
would it mean to be Ernest Hemingway in a world of global weirding? You
still have your short sniped sentences, and the sharks are still there,
but your sport has chaotic storyline. The good fish are gone and the
weird fish remain. In his twenties, Hemingway sought a storyline in Spain, drinking and bullfighting with his hipster friends. His fishing trip there was completely sullied by polluted waters, but in his fictional trip (The Sun Also Rises), the trout were fat, eager and ripe.<br />
<br />
Classic fly-fishing is
considered dry, or on the surface, wet, or just beneath the surface.
However, some forms have evolved, based on solid foundations in
entomology, to go deep beneath the surface: imitating the chironomid.
This midge, or tiny fly, starts its life on the very bottom of the lake
as a worm, quickly evolving into a mysterious vertical larva in the
water column. It is deep, and still, yet it has a mysterious hand
gesture: it is named for this gesture. It part of the art of flyfishing
to transform one's own hand gestures into an imitation of this creature
of the deep, tethered by a long and slender line.<br />
<br />
My first experience with chioronomids
confirms that esoteric is chaos magic. fly fishing is a quest for the
esoteric and chironimids are the most esoteric. At Lava Lake, dinner and
breakfast was trout, we didn't bring eggs. Bright green midges in its
tummny. Powerbait and lead go hand-in-hand, fly fisherman are against
the use of lead in the lake. Midges eat lead. <br />
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</h2>
<h2>
Chaos Magic</h2>
Go fishing in a polluted body of water. Salvage
electronic ruins. Derange a wild cat by taking it to a bagel dumpster in
the suburbs. Go to a place that you know has bad luck, multiple times
to accumulate it, so you can have good luck somewhere else. At the
waterfalls there are old transformers and turbines. <br />
<br />
If
you are from Oregon then your grandpa represents the Oregon trail. The Oregon trail still exists, in the thousands making their way to the global worming refuge. My truck
has shelves and pots and pans and niches for onions. It looks like a
green wagon trail camper. Because my dad is dead and my grandpa is too, i
have no Oregon trail, i have to be both dad and grandpa if i move to
this land.<br />
<br />
His kids can live in the city and he can realize his
ideal of theOoregon man. But I don't have a dad to be the Oregon man so
how do I respond? This is the same question as how does a man retain a
mystique on the water? Well I will not buy a camper and for a boat I
will have a kayak, try to keep it minimal. I wear dirty pants. My
grandpa tore up old shirts to use as twine. My grandpa squeezed the lead
sinkers on with his back teeth. <br />
<br />
Holidays should be at random times in the year, to minimize
exposure to campers and to reveal secret migrations. Always look for the
onion, when i met a camping family, the grandpa of a family
showed me a bunch of trout poaching in an aluminum rollup and
it smelled like onions. He used random spices, but only a little bit,
because they forgot salt, and it was great! Then they found some salt
and unrolled the foil to put salt in it and put some butter in. Grandpa said
it was better with less foil because then you can smell the fismoke.
the presence of onions is confimed in the chaos magic story. Onions are
the key ingredient that caramelize and release chmicals into the trout
and change its form along with the butter. Another great ingredient is
orange peppers.<br />
<br />
the
coastal range fish eat orang, inspired by the orange bellies on the
newts in orange slit on the throat. the cascade range eat green,
inspired by different shades of moss green and algae, from the deep
sediments at the bottom of lava lake. the two colors orange and green
are those of the mountain "dew"<br />
<h2>
Oil</h2>
There are thjree kinds of oil. The oil used to transport the
sportnsman to the wilderness spot. The oil that is polluting his home
rivers in the city: pcbs. And finally the oil in the fish's brain that is
used for its memories. It is along its spine too; body memory. These
three oils have a relationship to each other. The fish oil is how it
goes from the coastal city the river into the wilderness passing through
the port city. The fishemans oil also moves him but in a dumb way.
The pollution oil is a taint on the fish's brain, but its dielectric
constant has a mysterious and unknown effect on thoughts. The pollution
oil is from electronics and i am polluting again with the transistor
ant.<br />
<br />
There are different kinds of trout, you can taste them by eating
them. You can taste it when you eat them. Hatchery pond blue-green pond.
trail north worst, they taste like urine. The best is a wild small
trout from a deep lake, or a rocky river. You could taste it wehn you
eat it. There are types of flesh incarnate that are fooled by the smell
of rotting dough, and there are ofther flashes that are fooled by girl
patterns, recognition etched in omega oil. It is the
recognition oil that the fly fisherman seeks. I seek to know if trout
recognize electronic components.<br />
<br />
Trout and Salmon
both have this salmonid oil, which has evolved from their need to
journey up mountain rivers to keep their babies safe. They remember the
way home by the smell of the water, landmarks, colors. They also peel
back the onion skin to what they ate as babies: little aquatic insects
and other tiny tasty things. It is a sequence of ghost-images they
remember as they take this journey of life, and of death, for that is
their fate once depositing their young. Is the pink ghost flesh that we
are after eating, for it is a psychedelic. <br />
<br />
The forms of the flash incarnate. The tree pond brown turd sucker.
Deep sea predator and noble king salmon, black gum king salmon,
spirito-politically owned by the gillnetters. And habiter of mottled
places, where sudden dances the entomologist. The football linebacker,
the steeler, chrome worker of back hills Pennsylvania and Ohio. golden trout is
mythical and small, should you eat it or worship it?<br />
<br />
The wild man of the mountains is limited by the barrenness of his
soil, that says , so he turns to hunting cougars and coyote, which in
turn feed the meat soul and makes him more of a hunter. When the cowboys
encountered these people they also left behind a sort of pale worm band
who only prefers to eat the oily fish of the little mountain streams.
There were men also had typewriteers which they typed the first modern
novels on, in sandals there.<br />
<br />
A
receipt from Ollie Damon's, where we bought shad darts and strange
discount bass jellies. We also bought line and rooster tails, and asked
the old reddening man on how to wrap a sardine around the lure. My
revelation of the day was that this man did not know and think about how
to flare an LED in the depths of the river, and he knew about the
piezoelectric force, that may provide enough current to dimply
flickering the LED. He knew it needed something striking it to discharge
it as he said.<br />
<br />
I eat salmon so I can put the memory
oil in my own brain and subsume it. The dam is like a hard electronic
obstacle, which the salmon oil seeps around. The salmon encode a memory
in oil, starting in their deepest brain as a baby, eating little things:
crustaceans in the river, and the smells of their adolescence: the
smell of the city sewers. Trout are likewise, they do drip down the
stream eating things.<br />
<br />
All these things encode a memory
that accumulates, which they peel back again in their later years,
stripping the oil off the memory oil in their brain, and reverting in
the end of their life when they trophy, to eating tiny things. This is
the concept of patterns, which are hard like symbols, but encoded in
oil, like the concept of the PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenyl) analog delay
drum. This rotating cylinder was employed in some poisonous electronic
music studios to encode sound directly in the swirling fluid, as
dielectric charge. Then the sounds were replayed through the speakers
again, emanating from the encoded oils.<br />
<br />
The salmonid
encodes its journey in oil, from the inside out, then travels back
within; back in time as Rudolph Steiner told us to recount our day to
ourselves, backwards, every night. If you rotate it fast enough, though,
it stops swirling and becomes froth, and mixes up the memory. This sort
of globally-weirded-fish can swim in more than one direction on the
river.<br />
<br />
The yellow fungus eats their memory away.
Remember you can record audio onto a rotating head of poison oil. The Salmonidae also record memory on two layers of oil in their body. <br />
<br />
This
is a technique I learned with Stefan Tcherepnin, of blowing marijuana
smoke into a synthesizer before playing it. Now I do the same with
flies, to make a creative undulation happen in their computer music.<br />
<br />
Blanc's
question starts with the rumor that trout like the smell of a spray
lubricant, WD-40. What if they like other petroleum flavors, what if
they like industrial smells such as electronics? Can salmon smell the
PCBs in the Willamette river? Can they learn to be attracted to this
most synthetic smell? Can they smell heavy metals?<br />
<br />
Like the onion-sandwich-man, who takes great care to not
damage the protective layer of slime on his first trout, I am damaged by
waterways full of PCBs and leaden sculpin; that is the damage that
makes me angry at the clean fish and want to kill them employing a piece
of electronics. Like the bird who is snared in a fly-line, my children
are angry about their aborted world.<br />
<br /><h4>
Mountain Dew</h4>
I get my tungsten beads in metallic coffee, because I can, and that
marks them as the special metal of the deepest chironomid, or
Pennylvania midge. Also, a good morning camping on Lake T_____ will
involve an espresso in my aluminum grenade.<br />
<br />
Major Carey
traveled by railroad to the interior of Canada, where the great lakes
dwell, and pitched his tent by the grandest body of water. He then made
coffee and sat down at his camp table, praying to himself; this is the
combination of my dreams in the wars, of sitting down and creating
something in nature. What he created was the Carey Special, essentially a
truly green Aelian, using a pheasant's rump for the partridge hackle.
It's olive body and dun undulator evoke the older days before bleach and
synthetic dyes.<br />
<br />
Jeff Carey employs a nice gaming
joystick and also some really effective LED strobe lighting to deliver
chaotic and gestural noise music to his listeners' ears. When I saw him
there where no colors, just the action of flickering white light, a
hooked, enigmatic penusius grasped by computer musician, creating
undulating sheathes of sandstorm sounds. These are three most important
points of the LED fly: action, mystery, and again, action. The first
action is synthetic, the flickering of mylar strands; the second action
is natural, sheathes of feathers slipping in the stream. Mystery is
essential to the stone-age fly, because there is always the question of
"what is the hook?" You use ACTION to convince the trout that it is
simply the tail of a juicy and easy prey, as Carey uses noise and
flickering lights to convince you his joystick is a penusius.<br />
<br />
<b>Do you mountain dew or do the mountain?<br />
</b>Jeff
Carey is sponsered by the Dew Tour. The colors contrast with the
Mountain Lake times past nostalgic colors of General Carey. In Japan,
Dutour is a nice cafe with muted tones and good boutique coffee.
However, in America, it is an outdoor stadium of blood, with bright
green attractants and nutritious hooked hooking fluids. The river is
green not from pcbs, from nature.<br />
<br />
General Carey was the
first Dew Tour. The military has dumped about six thousand pounds of
trout into Henry Hagg Lake every month of the spring. Dough suckers,
bombs of dough suckers. In contrast, the paisley Oregon Dep't of Fish
and Wildlife releases pretty things into Lost Lake deep in the woods.<br />
<br />
Science
project, stomach pump 1:" 1 beautiful chironomid, estimated to be at
size3 18 2x long nymph hookwith gray metallic, i.e. mylar chip bag with
1tan floss, black wing case like peacock herl, black haed, P.t. trutt.
and two tinty white gills . Stocmach pump two: similar wormy like forms
and patterns. stomcah pump three: nothing. stomach pump 4: yellow and
gree n Mountain Dew colored powerbait with mylar flash holographic
flashes in it.<br />
<br />
a[pprocahes scientific through use off the stomach pump/<br />
lost lake, mar5ch 30 2017<br />
<br />
Fluorescent
green and yellow powerbait flecked with irridescent specks of mylar. If
I were an EPA official, I might even confuse it with capacitor
ingredients. Like powerbait these trout are branded with energy
discourse. Mountain Dew volt. Powerbait is measured in wattage, like md
volt, these trout are branded... don't get me wrong i like hanging out
with men of the river, stuyrgeon men with wabndering eyes.<br />
<br />
These
are my babies, in the cement tank in Clackamas. My babies, my tank: I
manage it, I come here on my days off to feed them dough balls. I
liaison to light artists to display bright green and orange colors
through aa milky perspex cube in the bottom of each tank, for the
entertainment of my babies. They like light, they like sounds. When you
control the breeding tanks at the top of the stream, you own the fishes'
minds, their core memories. I've taken away the natural programming of
muyted insects in natural tiny mountain streams, and replaced it with
bright hypercolor flashes of mountain dew cans. in their deepest memory.<br />
<br />
The tank in clak is for streelhead.<br />
<br />
The
disco beach is a synthetic natural phenomenon of the trout industry.
Take a lacunarian location such as trillium lake in Oregon on the slopes
of Mount Hood. The lake itself is created from a marsh, impounded by
earth. Then the dough ballers at ODFW installed trout that respond to
synthetic mylar sparkles in the dough, this dough gets discarded on
beaches and the sand becomes Berkely and it also has little balls of
lead in it. Like an industrial museum of the twentiethe century: the
lake!<br />
<br />
Take a away his phallic joystick, bring him to
the shores of the disco beach, replace the joystick with a fly rod and a
tiny bundle of lead in mylar. Emplace a rhythmic throbbing beat, and
whip the air with your sparkle-ball.PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-64138714602030916912021-01-03T09:14:00.002-08:002021-01-03T09:14:12.604-08:00Noise MusicWe could say that there are two kinds
of noise music: making music out of noise, and making noise out of
music. The first is a standard media model of co-opting the unknown
into a programmed channel -- pop songs now heavily employ noise and
hacking sounds. The second option is more esoteric, as it involves
jamming communication.
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The 1948 theory of communication
(Claude Shannon) specifies noise as a blockage perpendicular to the
narrative flow from transmitter to receiver. In paper circuits,
however, noises are central; they are the cellular signal sources,
interlocked rhizomally. It is a philosophical leap to shun
information and communicate with alingual noises. The ideal circuit
board limits noise, but in paper circuits, noise is unlimited.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In the Shannon’s 1948 model, the
ideal synthesizer has a “silent channel”: a path of communication
insulated from outside interference. In a paper circuit, there is no
silence and there is no single channel; variously connected noises
are like landmarks on its map.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">John Cage wrote “4’33”, his
infamous “silent piece”, to draw attention to the often ignored
noises in the concert hall - a cough, a shuffle. Schematized as an
imaginary synthesizer, the hall is full of nodes twittering in
relation to each other. The typical modern synthesizer abstracts
electronic sound shapes and places them against silence. In contrast,
the handmade paper circuit is defined by its materials. Rather than
the interaction of shapes and silence, it is a rich mulch of noises
interlocking with other noises.</p>
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This golf symbolizes the 20th century exploitation of nature for the sake of made-up traditions. Greenwashing is a corporate information system of exploiting the goodwill generated by grassroots environmental movements.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRD0OynoylCsZDM_3ehxCumXM3goj52GL-eRikoSnLzX8jr_n8qQk4UWNUoiPAZarnQAw76T7RiMYKrU835I9_5RDqvT5HKqVLnuFAbl3H6-mwKg33bCHvxV1THfqE84XZsL6ZRtc60_M/s300/Bliss_%2528Windows_XP%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRD0OynoylCsZDM_3ehxCumXM3goj52GL-eRikoSnLzX8jr_n8qQk4UWNUoiPAZarnQAw76T7RiMYKrU835I9_5RDqvT5HKqVLnuFAbl3H6-mwKg33bCHvxV1THfqE84XZsL6ZRtc60_M/s0/Bliss_%2528Windows_XP%2529.png" /></a></div><p></p><p>The disc golf course is another made-up tradition, but it seeks harmony within the natural environment. Take Portland, Oregon, home of giant fir trees. Disc golf accomodates them, and protexts their bark, and allows casts and curves among their trunks. This course requires no chemicals, and adapots to any location, sonoran desert or eastern beech forest. <br /></p><p>An amateur disc golfer putters about in the woods. It is an urban forest dérive, a drift among the pines. My cast always becomes a bonk, and I wander into some mushrooms. Like the STALKER, who throws nuts into the high grass to dictate his chaotic destination, a random cast is my path through the loamy woods.<br /></p><p>The original Americo-Scots misinterpreted the game to think it was timed; you drive to your target and run, hustling over the dunes, to achieve a timed par: with two dimensions of success, how few and how fast. Try the timed par, recognize the chaos magic of the true golf: pay tribute to the flying saucers of our alien friends with your disc.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJtJVmBKckpLJ2NEiyQFIjc3Crf4YTXMrMgm3AsAgsIXPZiN-EDyCkZgCmEW_vtM7EEuwvuVl90OQvvqjfwpzhDCP1vgnnJecw42ijeJgi2DdijeyV4JHdwowo4IQQEZtk6LsGerqE_o/s2048/20201214_102401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJtJVmBKckpLJ2NEiyQFIjc3Crf4YTXMrMgm3AsAgsIXPZiN-EDyCkZgCmEW_vtM7EEuwvuVl90OQvvqjfwpzhDCP1vgnnJecw42ijeJgi2DdijeyV4JHdwowo4IQQEZtk6LsGerqE_o/s320/20201214_102401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-40330983432810702152020-12-05T18:23:00.000-08:002020-12-05T18:23:27.208-08:00Ciat_Lonbarde Statement of Compostation<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ciat-lonbarde.net/planter/recent.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="666" height="240" src="http://ciat-lonbarde.net/planter/recent.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Ciat Lonbarde woodworking activities are sustainable, and sequester carbon in the soil. Our byproduct is natural sawdust, capable of sustaining mycelium: mushroom colonies that clean pollution. Oregon electricity powers the saw, planer, sander and high-tech woodcutting robot. The sawdust is wonderful gardening material and we can get fancy with creating planters in the city. One more thing: we employ local sustainable (street trees) harvester and fancy sawyer, Goby Walnut.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ciat-lonbarde.net/planter/planter1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="http://ciat-lonbarde.net/planter/planter1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-21030488421861669652020-11-27T10:51:00.000-08:002020-11-27T10:51:59.388-08:00SHITTER SHLISPER CARTOONS<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijInhs3sTxYqbR-8PKHa3_Bztzxfk9YzjGXGoaDUONOG44WgMH6fUwH2KbndK6AEqUaLFErZqRcYndsSpBBLdQDDA02MccJTOo_cFH3cLDhOnGDgb16_23fp-ZvUXP5SH7wCSBSjvEan0/s1200/yo1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYX_ZuTQS1mwQB6fDahnYduAhaUBgNVp0kiQ9WI_G34MK0nPGwnCqW77prIidxY0TLB-LzYLe8JEGWqxupqI3M0BZIHD_Jw9jmZteByDMmbA2WhBtjdsEUq1Qi3sXT_lIHKGL1UBGJeE/s640/20200815_092848.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The new interface for <a href="http://www.synthmall.com/ddd/index.html">DDD brand</a> is either BANANA or M3. </p><p>If you choose M3 over BANANA, The unit comes with M3 brass screws sticking up. This is actually a good interface for touch or using conductive foam or using alligator clips, but you can choose to add STUDS, which mostly take the M3 format screw.<br /></p><p>Procure these items on the internet. Such as eBay or Alibaba. They're called "leather working studs" and come in a variety of shapes. Spikes are the evil ones; don't get them. Try 10mm but really any spikes are evil because they're going to be resting on firm wood not giving leather, so if you fall on it, you die. I like the 5mm buttons. They hold an alligator clip really well.</p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/100pcs-Cone-Spots-Metal-Alloy-Punk-Stud-Spike-Rivet-For-Leathercraft-DIY-4-Color/273046269214">100pcs-Cone-Spots-Metal-Alloy-Punk-Stud-Spike-Rivet-For-Leathercraft-DIY-4-Color</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/200-PCS-Trendy-10MM-Silver-Spots-Cone-Screw-Metal-Studs-Rivet-Bullet-Spikes-USA/311754887204">200-PCS-Trendy-10MM-Silver-Spots-Cone-Screw-Metal-Studs-Rivet-Bullet-Spikes-USA</a><br /></p><p>Once they come in the mail (check the shipping times), finger tighten all your STUDS on. If some have threading issues you should have a steel M3 screw on hand that you could work in and out to clear up the threads. Once you get them all on and you like how it looks, take them off and one by one put a drop of thread-locker on the M3 screw and finger tighten it again. Now it is semi-permanent.<br /></p><p>Don't get the spikes unless you are really know what you're doing, and you don't have any kids that can fall on them or pets. I will not be held responsible for what you do with your STUDS. Also consider getting conductive foam to play it with. Make a wand like I did in STUBERBRO <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mneOsY-5yz8">1</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g0R949BiLw">2</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDGngrOVGlI">3</a>.<br /></p><p><br /></p>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-88934778779472867432020-07-17T15:25:00.002-07:002020-07-17T17:20:56.632-07:00Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part XII<i>Springtime at the JI sect headquarters, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Our group of famous and secret esotericists is deep in their springtime orgy of philosophical discussions on media. What follows is a documentation of three presentations. The first speaker is actually a team of Quantus and Parson, speaking on undocumentable art.</i><br />
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Presentation One: Undocumentable Art</h3>
It is impossible to document an installation; let's assume this is a given, and begin a thought experiment, a sort of workshop assignment for those present. First let's raise some hands and tell us an example of successfully undocumented installations. If someone wants to at this point bring in an example of a well-documented installation, we need that too. Then moving on, we can think constructively about what this gives us, both in the creative initial phase and in the creative receptive phase. How to savor photographs that don't explain anything. How to leverage undocumentability to make an even more invisible installation. sometimes all you get from a really good installation is a really dim grainy picture out of focus of a small ceramic cup.<br />
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I mean bald trombonist (and by that i mean a metaphor for you, my audience, when you are performing for another audience), do you really care about pictures of you on the stage, your forehead shining, i mean bald trombonist, your forehead shining in the red and blue.<br />
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That's the joy of playing experimental jazz is that you, the bald trombonist with square glasses, can show up on any day of the week, get up on the stage, and then next week show up with a huge mustache. it's just that the audience can sense a certain vibration about your persona itself. that's what art is without media, it's simply about vibrations.<br />
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You are not present, bald trombonist, but Quantus has summoned your vibrating image. the elves are random colors.<br />
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I have a neighbor Heinmann, you may remember him because i talked about him a lot already. he has a big metal barn by the road that leads to radio shack, with a pink light lit intermittently at night. Higher up on his manicured hill sits his low ranch home, a huge picture window behind which the Ohio lace hangs illuminated by his blue TV.<br />
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I have a thought experiment wherein I imagine his silhouette, a portly pork-eating figure, transformed into the terrible shadow of the monkey god Hanuman, breathing patent smoke as he rears up against the evil media portal there in the living room, across the walnut coffee table. <br />
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The presidential media artist employs data waste as a contrast to sloganeering simple and powerful messages of art pieces. Going off-script at the state of the union, muttering half-words. making sounds, these are all un-transcribable in the traditionally scripted governement proceedings. They are a breakage, a multimediafication, branching into video.<br />
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A tweet is a thought experiments, an art piece for life and death. The president is completely paranoid about losing the internet because her best art pieces are there on twitter. Take your partners preferred kitchen layout and inscribe the tools outlines in sharpie, then move them to your own preferred kitchen layout.<br />
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Later on the lake, at the end of the presentation, Parson bowed his head and offered others
of prayer, however they may receive it. Then he began the typical dialogue with Blanc, how one person may become a media artist simply out of spite. <br />
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<i>Thank you Quantus and Parson. The second presentation, by Monkletto, is on stepping into the
couch. </i><br />
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Presentation Two: Stepping into the Couch</h3>
It's a form of wilding-out, but imagine doing it at home on a snowy night. You can think of it as wilding-in. Quantus thought of his own aversion to playing-out: a masochistic tradition of rock bands playing in puke bars, extended to synthesizers. He broke his music up into playing-out and playing-in, and try to minimize the former, that's how his residency at the radio shack was so brilliant because transmitting is solely playing-in, playing on the airwaves.<br />
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Here is a slide of my castle of couches in the basement, it's actually a stack of three. I knid of "sit" in the couch, but I do it by walking, face forward, into it. It's a metaphor of life as waiting for deathfacing the couch. You might think I'm going to sleep, but I'm actually going through the couches, to a wilder place beyond. That's why I have three couches, to make the inner space as wild as possible. There's paint splashes all over in there, and some analog synths too.<br />
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The JI sect headquarters couch was like burlap, an outdated fashion. Monkletto pushed it to the middle of the room, displacing the council table and folding chairs. We managed to not pinch our fingers. Now, Monkletto disappeared into vibrations of the couch, like Heinmann blurring and blending with Hanuman: he does actually "step into the couch."<br />
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Next he invited someone to critique his art, and approach the couch. Blanc was first. The two parried as they circulated around the couch. Monkletto has too much going on, we can't see what's in there, in the dusty cavity behind the couch and within the scratchy fabric cover. But it is intriguing to hear synth sounds coming from within the couch. I like how it's wrapped up into a single couch, and that is your art catalog, simply a set of couches penetrated.<br />
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Quantus snorted, typically, at Blanc's need for monomania. He then approached the couch and offered an analogy: what a dog thinks of a car. It is a sleek turd that runs really fast. The joy
of derangement: instant transportal in a turd to a random land of strange
anus smells. I too, can get off on petroleum.<br />
the two parried as they circulated around the couch.<br />
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<i>And the next presentation is titled "Blanc's lagoon." The society buckled themselves in...</i><br />
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Presentation Three: Blanc's Lagoon</h3>
On location at my house near the shores of Lake Erie, the dammed creek there has crystal blue waters. On closer inspection, it is a blue pollution stain, cloudy blue waters. I pour copper sulfate in, sourced from ground up circuit boards. It also contains glass and epoxy dust. We send our aluminum and steel to China on barges, and the empty barges ship back this turquoise technology waste. Just joking, they actually send stuff to sell. But I have an inside connection to get the waste, and I am partially simulating some of the industrial-metallic bogs in mainland China.<br />
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You are all jealous because I get to do non-internet art, he grunted proudly, then picked up a tumbled river cobblestone and threw it in the lagoon.<br />
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I call this experiment "Blanc's Lagoon: toward a metastasis between halogenated aromatics and animal tissue." My symphony includes biphenyls and chlorine too. Cloudy forms erupted from below in the murk. This is a sort of beach programming, my chemical symphony. I have these instruments which are rings of benzene, my violins synthetic, and I add imaginary flavors with the chlorine, things that have never been done before.<br />
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It's like playing violins with tape music, it's completely new! I multiply them, there's a difference between add and multiply. In add they are sitting together side by side, like a concert hall situation with a tape recorder and a violin player. In multiply, they form cell walls or structures or even bind to each other with electricity.<br />
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Blanc poured some bleach on the oil, with crawfish crawling beneath it. They put their claws up and then down and trembled a little in the sand. "There is the idea of the albuminous, two types: one that can pass through animal tissue and one that cannot. Both are interesting, and correspond roughly to add and multiply. I can create forms and cell walls out of the pure substances of industry: chlorinox. But those that can penetrate animal tissue are interesting for I can create a being that is like an overlay of the oil forms and the organic forms."<br />
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Albuminous is a substance that shows a ghostly white pseudo-form in the water. "We are active environmentalists, seeking to find an ecosystem that thrives in the modern electronics industry eflluent. I have different areas in the lagoon that I can focus on different metallic activities or halogenic aromatics. The ducks seem to like being around mercury, and the crawfish seem to like bleach."<br />
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To perform the experiment, Blanc scoops up some of the murk, the most formed clouds in the soup, and extracts them into a flask or dish. To prepare the funnel, he bands an animal membrane, such as inside peritoneum of steelhead, or intestine of duck, as a filter at the base of the funnel. Half or more stays on top of that which is transversive.<br />
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Why is he doing this, having been doing computer music by the side of the lagoon, why did he walk out into the lagoon? Because he noticed that it was already changed and in a moment of hallucination, believed the industry chemicals were also put there for experimental sound forms. A fountain of green oil burbled in the center of the lake.<br />
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"I got interested in the idea of the environment, our ecosystems. My medium is painting shells, however, I am steward of actor-networks both virtual and in this lagoon. My computer is a swamp, which is swampier than a lagoon because of the chemicals I put in it. I wanted to put down my computer music ecosystem and take up something more direct, while I transformed my artistic practice into an time-old, materials-based approach."<br />
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"Instruments are the materials of computer music, and chemical albumin is the instrument of industrial metastasis."<br />
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"Action," Quantus snorted.<br />
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"Beach programming, like we are now eating flounder stuffed with crab. I'm interested in putting a body inside another body: an ecosystem of nesting flavors. The experiment began with a question of how do crawfish handle acid rain, which I simulated with bleach."<br />
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Quantus snorted louder. "Because bleach is the opposite of acid, that's why they like it."<br />
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"In any case the experiment grew to include all alkaloids and acids, which were accessible in Cleveland at various stores. By various stores I mean the burning river, the steel pits, the old electronics factory. Capacitors for electronic elevators had a resevoir of chemicals, as did transformers for escalators. These contain the oils that I have distilled into proto-organic forms, in my lagoon."<br />
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"Beach programming is nothing more than creating an ecosystem on your computer, be it a game or the most distilled forensics in computer music, the sound world. It is world-making. I got more interested in direct world-making. Not interested in saving the environment, more like salvaging the alchemical components of Lake Erie, like at the surplus store where I got these transformers, and creating something new with it. There are natural components, and industrial components."<br />
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Cells that have iron in them become blood, storing oxygen for the fires of zinc chloride. Cells that have zinc in them react with my bleach, in the lagoon, to create zinc chloride, a corrisive of metals liberating many free radicals including mercury and cadmium that mix and are stored within the modules of polychlorinated biphenyls. these become the plurality of modules in the central ooze. They exchange electronic signals through the capacitance of the PCB globs, and the modulated electron wells of the metastasized cells. Blanc is the reason the lake is clean; his lagoon holds all the vile electronic waste. He goes out to feed it bleach. <br />
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"I noticed that people use bleach to clean their clothing, remove dirt. Why not use bleach to clean up the duck pond?"<br />
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"bleach is pollution, water is supposed to be dirty! The duck pond is a poop processing pond, no? leave it alone." Bingzi was offended; he did not share American values for changing the landscape with chemicals.<br />
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"Jesus, Blanc, do you want to generate more halogenated aromatics, more than we already have?"<br />
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"Yes, that is my conspiracy. Cells that have iron in them become blood, storing oxygen for the fires that fuels metabolism. Now, there is oil in the pond, no?"<br />
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"Yes, there is much oil because it is connected to lake Erie."<br />
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"I want to create a new form of life that can use this oil, by sequestering it with chlorine exchange. Its blood is made out of PCBs! Its electrolyte is zinc chloride, not alien to our own, and a byproduct is that this solution also dissolves and can purify heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium, that it stores in the PCBs. Since there are hundreds of different PCBs, this is like its enzyme DNA, a catalog of PCBs, like a 50s Dow Chemical brochure: Aroclor, Fenclor, Plastivar, Nepolin, Noflamol."<br />
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"You want to save the world by bleaching the duck pond?!" Quantus was ready to clean up the headquarters, broom the floor, and leave. "All those dollar store bleach bottles, can't you just do computer music instead, at the duck pond?"<br />
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"Yes, cleaning the pond, creating life, I also use computer music for this. I have purchased an underwater microphone on ebay, so I can hear how the life reacts when I send different alternating currents through the water. I'm trying to get it to sizzle, that's when it's creating new synthetic molecules."<br />
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"What?"<br />
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"The molecules in my oilganism..." Bingzi pushed his chair loudly, interrupting Blanc. "Yes, let me spell it: o-i-l-g-a-n-i-sm, its molecules are more like modules, and they exchange electronic signals through the capacitance of their PCBs. In computer music, we have the concept of the digital delay, which is basically a tape machine."<br />
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Bingzi nodded.<br />
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"The digital delay is modeled after the concept of the analog delay, which is easiest as a tape machine, but can be made with PCB oil and a rotating head. The head records an electronic sound directly into the oil, and then plays it back. The swirling of the oil can be controlled to change the pattern of the sound, like dipping paper into a tide-pool with iridescent oil floating on its surface. The living PCB modules in my lagoon are a computer music software. Thank you for auditioning my presentation."<br />
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<i>At the conclusion of presentations, we resume our informal repor.</i><br />
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"DONE, enough!" Quantus snorted and began striding out the door.<br />
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<i>Quantus please stay a moment.</i><br />
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"What?"<br />
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<i>You may be in trouble again for the use of webcams in the Ji temple.</i><br />
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"But
none of the information was ever broadcast, it wasn't
even stored, just piped to my teahouse as research materials for
trombone improvisor."<br />
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<i>Yet, there is still a natural law
against taking the image of others' bodies, and the Ji sect has
spiritual rules about them too. Social monking time should not be wasted
taking selfies.</i><br />
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"That's not a rule, just a sermon! The
Ji sect is primarily an arts institution that relies on deep
spirituality. Each monk has a different outlook on media art."<br />
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Blanc
went to the bathroom, and emerged in a paper ghillie suit with a
miniature crossbow. He tackled Parson to the floor and pointed the bow
up his ear. "How about I pour Hebanon in the kings skull right now,
while he's sleeping? Do you dream when you are editing videos or
perusing media platforms? No? Then why are you wasting that time
sleeping, soaking up blue light from your monitor? The two parried as they circulated around the couch.<br />
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<i>"Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence at Radio Shack" is an attempt to explain how some people become sound artists out of malice, or other perverted reasons. Malice towards other types of artists or degrees of sociability. Sound artists become radicalized, experimental electronic musicians by lines of flight from the norm, disgust and a hope to eventually blow it all u. </i>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-39687749553187295172020-06-13T08:39:00.000-07:002020-06-13T08:39:04.160-07:00Proposal for KORG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>To design two KORE chips, KORE (AR+TRI/SAW/SQU+VCA), and KORF (ADSR+RESOFILT), and solidify 1vo on them. I believe this has become a low-hanging fruit. The silicon economy is ripe for artisanal chips; you could vend them on Mouser, enhancing your DIY image and also generating lateral revenue. I’m excited to hear that you’ve acquired Arp; its elegant engineering can be blended in to make the chips with the simplest epitaxial transistors. I am inspired by 20th century chips like LM13700; surely it’s time to consolidate the best of analog synthesis into two useful packages. In fact, Korg actually employed monolithic CEM chips back in the 70s.</li>
<li>Optioning Islamic (neutral) intervals is the greatest need of a 21st century, instrument of peace. Casio did this with its AT3 keyboard for localized “oriental” sales, but I seek to design an instrument with global intentions, that reflects our world's diversity. Adding 5 red keys to the 12 tone octave affords microtonality, but it also offers articulations within the twelve tones, such as timbral accent or musical macros. Extra keys have been added to organs since medieval times. To me, this is also a “secretly new low-hanging fruit,” not only adding tuning detail, but inspiring any kind of functionality, accessed by a programmable nexus on the keyboard controller. </li>
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With these two “recycled innovations,” i can implement a scaled line of instruments from tiny toucher to analog front-ended polyphonic workstation. Because they are unique keyboards by a prestigious company, everyone would want one. From my work in solar powered synthesizers and organic materials, you can tell I think about sustainability, but I also think about music’s role in world peace. Your mission speaks about important new instruments. This is what I offer to you. PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-36016372681639559292020-05-30T17:36:00.004-07:002020-05-30T17:36:45.095-07:00Stuber Schematic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi Guys. The Stuber is a stereo filter with all kinds of controls and a digital octave divider to further e/affect your sounds. It is in the unpopular oval interface, which offers a philosophical background of androgynous nodes, marked as asterisks in the schematic. They are both inputs and outputs, and all these special curated nodes come to the surface of the instrument in either banana jack or brass stud format. </div>
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I've finished the prototype and you can watch two videos about it here:</div>
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The Stuber completes the line of oval instruments. All three, the Srine, Fyrall and Stuber, may be combined into one full "dudero" and I am very excited to make this happen with deluxe CNC capabilities. All three instruments received a lot of special attention to make them compatible with each other. So without further ado, here's the petite sketch of schematic. You can see the mansion multiplexers in the middle and the shape of four state variable filters to the sides. Q control is at the top. Enjoy!</div>
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<br />PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-2307485231900016232019-09-29T10:19:00.000-07:002019-09-29T10:19:23.416-07:00Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part XIQuantus called out to you, "come here, you bald trombonist, my friend! Hey, come into my video booth, where I am having tea, would you like some?" You bring your trombone into the darkened room, its walls painted black. The red power lights shone on the monitors.<br />
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"I am beginning a new project, interrogating the product of video-graphic work. More specifically, why do we videotape actions and then play them back after some editing? Does it have to be a deliverable via TV, or could it be some sort of jazz performance? I am bringing you, a visiting improvisor, into my clandestine video booth, to watch these debaucherous scenes and improvise along. No I won't let you use your favorite video editing software, just your trombone!"<br />
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The party was videotaped secretly, using a cluster of the audio bus wires to feed a panoptikon of all rooms in the compound to the radio shack, where Quantus was having tea. He had duct-taped black cardboard all over the walls which originally were porous, giving it a dark, pervy feeling.<br />
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"We are going to improvise a lyrical piece, and I might even write some lyrics on the spot. The microphones are on in the radio shack, and our improvisations will be broadcast live to all corn-cob-men in Ohio."<br />
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Quantus clicked the red glowing lozenges on each monitor and they fired up with an ultrasound zap! "Let me explain myself as an artist. I follow Andy Warhol's maxim 'watch, but don't touch.' As such, the entire events of this compound become potential materials for improvisation."<br />
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"For example, there is an orgy going on right now in the temple, but also my friend Chris Peters is patching a synthesizer in the studio. I put the webcam of sexual penetrations on monitor A, and I feed imagery of the banana wires jacking and unplugging into monitor B. Now I can explore various transmutations with this slider: a crossfade, dissolve, hard cuts. Now I think you know what to do."<br />
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You blow some air into the trombone and get the mouthpiece wet. It is cool but brandishing warmth at every breath. In the sexual webcam you immediately see some gestures that are easy to transfer to trombone: pistoning, flopping, up and down glissandi. But you want to start it cool, for the radio drama of the piece. You look over at the synthesizer patching. Chris Peters is slowly rotating a knob. That makes you think of your own, cool breath in and out, cool but warming deep inside the pipes. You blow a breath sound not unlike the wind in the pines.<br />
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"You are the composer, the improviser, the multi-instrumentalist! I may broadcast some of the videotaped sounds, but most of it is either too explicit or too experimental; you are the bridge, my friend the bald trombonist! What we're going for is a complete loss of the original data, be it pornographic or experimental music, enabling the improvisor to step in and reconstruct the party as jazz."<br />
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"I've always loved the CDs that you can buy in the store of Ancient Greek and Roman music. Who made these CDs, a digital recording from ancient times? How were they recorded? A music goes unrecorded, only to be spoken of by various shady and misty authors, and then becomes sound data on a CD. It's like a legendary party, that leaves no record."<br />
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"The recording of Ancient music is like the symmetrical opposite of what I'm trying to accomplish here: starting with a recorded stream, and then using ancient instruments to channel the data, and thus removing the original data. It's a way to deal with data waste, my bald trombonist." <br />
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"Then we have my friend Bingzi who mostly hangs out in the kitchen. He has such a nice ordering of the space, and disciplined about cleanliness, we rely on him for food and as far as recipes, we just let him go. He cooks great Asian fusion food, like take his cold noodles, which I know secretly through a webcam, he is eating right now. I wired the kitchen with high-gain microphones; avoiding drafts from steam and ventilation fans was a challenge, but the main fan motors are baffled outside the kitchen on the roof. So it's actually quiet enough in there right now to hear him eating. Actually you could hear him eating over a truck; he's sucking them and slurping them so loud as is the custom."<br />
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Making slurping sounds is an audio manifestation of basically using your lips as a swirly blender, to mix some oxygen into the noodles and thus bring out the flavors by oxalysis. Quantus would be extremely at unease with the intensity of Bingzi's slurping, but he was much more comfortable hiding in a video booth during such a party, drinking tea and composing.<br />
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"Now we're listening to Bingzi through ultra-sensitive microphones and I can mix them, the noodle slurping takes on different timbres throughout the room, anyone can hear that. I think a lonely noodle slurper in a metal cafeteria: that's a great score for a trombone improvisor. Just follow the swoopy movements and noodly forms, and the noise sounds are great take-off points for extended technique on the trombone. We might even get to the gurgly sound of spit moving through its pipes. The dinking of soup spoon on ceramic bowl would make me crazy in real life, but here it becomes a wonderful percussive ring within an improvised piece."<br />
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<i>From now on, when Quantus addresses the second person, imagine that you are a bald trombonist with a penchant for extended technique and ridiculous sounds, but you can blow hard too. You have learned to improvise to the videostream of an orgy, and someone eating noodles, and these sounds were broadcast over the quiet Ohio farmscape.</i>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-47285627487762278052019-09-06T18:17:00.002-07:002019-09-06T18:17:37.631-07:00Post-Electronic Manifesto<h2>
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Handmade Electronics</h2>
The synthesizer maker creates a fiction that musicians play with and make real. The electronic instrument enables the musician, just as silicon transistors and plastic capacitors enable its maker. Synthesis, or putting together, applies to music as well as electronic materials.<br />
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Synthetic materials are chosen for electronics to isolate fundamental properties such as resistance or capacitance. Organic materials are not perfect or ideal in this sense, but contain a variety of electronic properties. When paper and wood become part of a circuit, they change it in an unknowable way.<br />
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Sometimes I make a circuit board out of paper, encase the circuit in wood, and the device becomes doubly handmade. In a world where electronics are easily made by machine, why make them by hand at all? Because time spent soldering is time spent philosophizing on the nature and purpose of craft.<br />
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As a meditation consider four objects crafted from electronics materials:<br />
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<li>a rounded envelope of Alaskan copper. A geometric thorax shape sits above a T-split waist. Some have told me it resembles a fillet of salmon. The copper shield embodied wealth in potlatch culture.</li>
<li>a spiral wrap of kapton, a plastic tape used in aerospace electronics, and anti-static mylar, for packing-protecting sensitive electronics components. A tiny crescent hook forms its armature. A single strand of copper wire gives its abdomen an insect-like striation. The synthetic sheen of the materials fools trout to imagine it as a pupal midge emerging from the deep.</li>
<li>a small basket woven out of colorfully insulated strands of wire, salvaged by its maker from telecommunication installations in South Africa.</li>
<li>a thin acoustic housing of wood around a resonant airspace containing two speakers and a paper circuit. It emits primitive and noisy sounds, perhaps an instrument to scare animals away? </li>
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The copper shield embodies a principle of hacking: its owner broke it into pieces, distributing them as gifts to guests at the potlatch, each of whom brazes a new copper shield. Copper, a fundamental component of electronics, is a spiritual material because of its elemental nature of repeatable re-melting. Its hackability arises from this inherent physical property. The copper shield held a revered ritual place in traditional Potlatch culture, representing animal spirits, thus interacting with the dreams of guests at a ceremony.<br />
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Spiritual science examines the invisible subconscious motivations and dreams behind human manifestations. For Rudolf Steiner, looking for “spirit” of an object involves taking a natural object and a perfect facsimile of it and trying to discern which one is living. Do electronics, especially musical ones, deserve only a physical analysis, or can we speak about the spirit of electronics? Spirit is recorded, crafted into the copper of the shield. The copper is dream putty: it can imitate the form of natural life, as perceived through the dreams of its maker.<br />
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There is something compelling about an object that synthesizes artificial and natural elements. It must have been handmade, fitted together; it is a sign of human touch. Think of what the tension between organic and synthetic messages to the end user. Plastic cases strike a subconscious chord of disposability. Even though wood is more biodegradable, users treats it more indispensably, because of how it looks, feels, and the sound of it. Protected by nostalgia, it is un-obsoletable: a musical instrument <br />
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Thousand Years Post-Electronic Medieval Times</h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">You wander the woods with
your handmade electronic unit, but why did you make it? The bear
following you wonders too at the strange sounds and its nightmares
scare it from you- it's like dream putty. A media device would have
captured you in its own dream state, and you would become too
entranced to notice the bear sneaking up behind you. The primitive
noisemaker yields psychic agency to its player who emboldens to face
the bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What whimsical talk about
hipsters and wild ones! It may, however, become relevant 500 years
hence in the middle of the thousand years post-electronic medieval
times. Then, media is not the dazzling promise it was at the
beginning, but electronics has continued to develop as a craft. The
bell of innovation has rung and decayed; Moore’s law did not curve
upwards forever, but plateaued for many generations. The twentieth
century was a crisis at the beginning of this bell-shaped
acceleration, but now we know what we’re doing. My job as builder
of analog synthesizers is to resonate with the original innovation of
electronics itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Look at the development of
bronze and other new industries that enabled the roman empire, a
dizzying expansion and invasion. Bronze <span style="font-style: normal;">was
immediately sequestered by powers into swords, but d</span>id new
technology increase exponentially from there? No, it plateaued for a
thousand years of middle ages, passing through many hands to be
reworked, to develop as a craft.<span style="font-style: normal;">
</span>Electronic craft shall follow a similar path; initially
developed for war, then realizing a latent potential for art over
the thousand years post-electronic medieval times. </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The thought of passing
synthesizer artifacts through generations informs my prophecy. During
this period of time, we will seek to fully understand our
relationship with electronics. Do you think that we really only had
analog synthesizers for a hundred years and now they're dead? Do you
think that's what we thought when glass was discovered? Until some
distant human evolves a brain organ that understands the relationship
between quantum physics and general relativity, we will inhabit this
new plateau, the electronic limbo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here's a note about ego
during the twentieth century. At times of acceleration, people are
thought of as inventors. In technological plateaus, however, they are
more like resonators, fitting into a multi-generational continuum.
Summoning spiritual electronics is our shared task during the
thousand years post-electronic medieval times. <span style="font-style: normal;">After
so many years of co-existance, electronics subsume into our
subconscious, where dwells spirit. Focus not on the media, but the
medieval; record spirit in dream putty, hack an electronic artifact
and pass it along as a memory of your craft: a musical instrument</span></span></div>
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On the test-busk I only spoke with one stranger named Jim, who is not a bum but had walked the streets, been chewed up by them and had a dog named Max. He is studying to be a pastor and I offered the a dove (sounder) for his church but he corrected me: his sort of pastor walks the streets and helps others. He wanted a dove to freak out his neighbors and offered to buy it. I repeated they were not for sale as he cradled it sunward in his arm. "Well then," he said and picked through a handful of minor change, dropping some in the aluminum bucket. It clinked, the boy smiled. He brought the coins to the Thai shack for some tamarind iced tea.<br />
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I bought the boys some Pad Thai too, and while we ate I noticed a bicycle-mounted bum circling near the Sounders which leant against the brick semi-wall near a cardboard bum-bed. He skirted us sitting in the shady Thai restaurant patio. "Do you want us to move those away?" I asked. "No worries! They're really trippy." Thus he was copacetic which I could not have told from his hollowed eyes. He smiled a bit. "Good weird, right?" "Sure!" As the test-busk wound down, I confided my trippy sounds in the open-mindedness of bums, and that quarter would be safe. Jim did have a weird moment when he started walking away with the dove, and I had to snatch it back. <br />
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Today we started early, Kiri and I. I thought we might leave in the truck with an extra battery of four Sounders, but we had become hungry so Kiri convinced me to bike. We left with two full backpacks (two monks, one dove, and three cicadas) and the aluminum tip bucket. I joked, "I usually wear a helmet but today a stylish Irish beret." We biked to the same square that held the test busk but today, the Farmers Market. I'm friendly with the man who runs the stage there, even though I flaked on him once. I respect the stage but I can't really even compete with it yet, so everything's copacetic with my strange peripheral busking. In Portland I've never had trouble with the authorities, me and my solar powered sound. But today was different; there was a loud generator and a camera crew. We ordered some crepes which arrived promptly. As we ate a Japanese production crew supervised an American film crew. It became clear that we would not busk, for the extra bustle and the loud sound of their generator would easily drown us out. We started biking home, but stopped halfway, and congealed a plan to load our bikes onto the 16 bus toward downtown Portland and the main Farmers Market. <br />
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The bus took us to 6th and Oak, we got out and removed our bikes. The glazed, wide, brick sidewalks, somehow shady in the urban canyon, mostly deserted except near the market. We biked south and west uphill to Pioneer Square, the glazed brick cascade of steps baking in the Sun. A young tour guide babbled in the shade of a solitary oak. The courthouse sat silently across the street. The brick steps form a large acoustic lens throughout the park but there also sits a smaller recessed lens near Starbucks. A young, vaguely homeless couple clustered on some cardboard in the shade. We set up in the middle of the lens, resting Sounders against the bricks, angling them towards the Sun. Then began our first encounter with the lady in a wheelchair holding a dog, and her friend a bearded lady. She and I both wore pink shirts and our conversation was pleasant, and they expressed true interest. I'm open to all forms of sexuality and they were all open to all forms of electronic music. So naturally solar Sounders are healing; their day-tripping sounds present an alternative to mainstream electronic music. They inhabit Sunny baked spots of midday sun, reflecting the weirdos' baked mixed feeling of boredom and paranoia. Most people in the world don't have ears. They sit there too, baking in the sun. You can be certain that most people will stroll by and not even notice the weird in their ears. That knowledge helps me focus on particularly meaningful interactions with weirdo strangers.<br />
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Dwelling a little bit longer in Pioneer Square, we moved the Sounders twice within that massive glazed amphitheater. Moving on, we packed up the Sounders and the aluminum tip bucket. Pumping farther up south and west we arrived at the strip of park that begins the main Farmers Market, and locked our bikes at the edge of it. Because it's big we hiked around it first, arriving at the top of the hill. There, I placed the Sounders on a patch of sunny dirt, with the tip bucket barging onto the sidewalk. One lady asked me what we were doing and I answered "we are busking." Kiri and I had agreed on this answer the night before in a discussion. I gave him some money to get ice cream and pizza, then sat down in the shade to observe pedestrians, their shadows, and a very small percentage of interested people: babies, three older men with caps, one bum who said it sounds trippy, the lady in the wheelchair with the dog and the bearded lady. I think one girl dropped a micro-coin in the bucket by mistake. The three older men were separate, Smiley, and wanted to see under the hood. I responded in kind, showed them the simple circuit board and speaker cone shrouded by the solar panel. To each man I worked my mouth around a manifesto, explaining that I made synthesizers for sale, but these are not. It's an experiment. I'm interested in using solar for something in the moment, like electronic sound. That's why they don't have batteries and shadows mute them. To another stranger I explained the palette: two monks, a dove, and three cicadas. "They're fixed at these sounds, there are no knobs, it's art!" I persisted. The sunny corner had good traffic but an inner glade was quieter and harbored relaxing individuals and a small patch of sunlight wither removed the Sounders.<br />
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From this part of the day on we met no more strangers and descended back down hill to meet the bus back home, which cradled our bikes. I thought of Kiri quietly singing with the dove and realized this is a possible avenue to generate more gold: performing an imitation of the sounders with our voices. If I throat sang with the monk, then I would become what it was imitating and thus a musical loop of inspiration. That's generating a performance greater than just some cardboard boxes making trippy sounds for bums. I mean for some real clientele, we could have accented the sound, with our own voices, like a band. Well I did get a paper bag of fragrant basil stuffed in the aluminum pot.<br />
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Today I learnt from a combination of bums and smiley gentlemen. I need to implement "Tuba Car" ASAP. It is the thumping trippy bass of the sounders, installed in my shingled Tool Shed as a twelve inch woofer, a sixty watt solar panel, over-driving unbeknownst a seven watt car amplifier chip on aluminum heat-sink. I will need to experiment with a range of panel wattages down to ten, to discover what causes the wonderful distorted tuba sounds. I shall recreate the shed on elf scale with fine cedar shingles, a corrugated plastic roof, like a dog house for the woofer and the circuit. I think the the tuba sounds truly may only have one cause: current interactions on the supply caused by extreme amplification. I include a chaos knob in the fine electronic organs which I sell, to give them sophisticated sounds of very fine granularity. A Solar Sounder is different, it gets all the chaos it needs from the panel interacting with the environment of light, and a secondary action is just as nonpareil. That is, the current relationship of the panel and the speaker amplifier, mediated by the main bypass capacitor. Thus tuba car thumps beats in a rhythm controlled by its amplifier gain. Simple circuit bending knowledge, thanks Jessica Rylan, Todd Bailey, David Tudor, whomever else you should comment below!PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-7378217423456681402019-01-09T11:23:00.001-08:002019-01-09T11:23:02.347-08:00Plumbutter Test Procedure<h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Plumbutter Test Procedure</h2>
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<i>test kit: 2 bananas, one mp3 player into stereo-mini cord,</i></div>
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<i>and another banana for the steam. </i></div>
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<i>deerhorn: it is traditional to choose a pitch relationship</i></div>
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<i>and leave it for the whole piece,</i></div>
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<i>to create a drone fro the listener.</i></div>
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<i>red, white and purple bruised deerhorn.</i></div>
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<i>gongue-check, end in bass on the deer.</i></div>
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<i>avdog check</i></div>
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<i>noise break- ultrasound to self-modulate.</i></div>
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<i>rolls- this is going to be boring.</i></div>
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<i>berlin snare at full</i></div>
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<i>steam beats</i></div>
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<i>hearing check- ultrasonic errors</i></div>
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<i>ultra-steam is the subtlest, a stereo error field. </i></div>
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<i>media-processor: gongue</i></div>
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<i>media-processor: avdog</i></div>
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<i>media-processor: deerhorn</i></div>
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<i>it is traditional to wait for silence,</i></div>
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<i>then reach around and pull the plug.</i></div>
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PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-18550683607958432882018-11-24T11:04:00.004-08:002018-11-24T11:09:56.535-08:00Increase Erectile Dysfunctional Weirdness<a href="http://shbobo.net/cgi-bin/fish.html"><br /></a>
<a href="http://shbobo.net/cgi-bin/fish.html">TEXT FISH NEWS</a> is a social patch sharing platform like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/481168785410750/">MASS SHNTH BOG</a>. But it is also a tactic to avoid scams; only code conforming to the rules of fishiness may pass to the post. So you may be able to post spam textes such as (horn finger (dust (salt horse 2018))), if that means anything to your company.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An attempt at a spam-like patch</td></tr>
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The rules of fishiness:<br />
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<li>comments are a bare newline, or that begun with semi-colon ;with stuff in between</li>
<li>balanced expressions: fish () soup {} tank [] boat <></li>
<li>guts are numbers or a magical word from the shlisp dictionary</li>
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What to do about spam? As an experimental technique in the future, we may incorporate spam into the opcode matrix philosophy, and such spammy expressions manifest:<br />
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<code>;(increase erectile dysfuntional weirdness)</code><br />
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About Hacking</h3>
It's funny to me, I felt like I was hacking, but to a set, non-hacking result, a formal language definition. In Perl, I had to learn how to bless data as a class, to achieve polymorphic results. The parser is simply a regex:<br />
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<code>while ($texte=~ /(\n|;[^\n]+\n)|([\{\(\[\<;])|([+\w-]+)|([\}\)\]\>;])/g)</code><br />
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So there is an interesting overlay of duck-typing, magical escaping, and OOP. My Javascript employs all the natural functions that already exist for drag and drop, so you could even edit it on the site before you upload it.<br />
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To this point I've created the shlisp opcodes in ARM assembly, coded command-line interpreter in c, programmed an editor uploader in C++, created sound games in SDL. Now, add to that list a dummy interpreter for the sake of editing in Javascript, and a dummy interpreter in Perl, for the sake of security against bots.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comparison of same patch in editor and web</td></tr>
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PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-63759912824665692482018-11-16T10:36:00.000-08:002018-11-16T10:44:13.764-08:00Interview on Solar SoundI was contacted by Alex Nathanson, a graduate student in New York, for some questions relating to his project, <a href="http://www.solarpowerforartists.com/">Solar Power for Artists</a>, and with his permission, what follows are his questions and my answers.<br />
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<b>When did you start working with solar power and what drew you to
working with it?</b><br />
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In 2014, I finally had a chance to
design a long-running line of solar-powered touch instruments called
Tocante. They work by storing solar power in a battery, and run
anytime including night. They are normally off, saving battery power,
until a slight touch on the surface activates them. Furthermore,
playing electronic music by touch works so much better by battery,
because the grounds are isolated and you get a really clean tone. You
see, the whole concept of touch and battery power goes hand in hand,
and battery power desires a little solar panel as source of what we
call trickle-charge, a constant renewal of its chemistry during the
day. Later, in 2016, I decided to use solar panels as a source of raw
and immediate energy for Solar Sounders, which are essentially a
larger 9v panel, an analog circuit, and speaker amplifier, all in a
self-contained box. They are best in an ensemble, where overlapping
voices in the same range create difference tones and interlocking
melodies. Because each voice uses its own solar panel and speaker,
they can be separated in space, and also their electronic responses
to the solar environment can be unique.</div>
<b>Where did you learn the technical skills necessary for this
work?</b><br />
It's really simple, you just get a solar panel and try powering
things with it! I've been trying to make my own cellphone charger for
a long time, but cellphones are actually very picky about what
voltage input they take. We'll get into this pickiness later.<br />
<b>What are your design criteria in regards to solar powered
artwork?</b><br />
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It should work. And that means if
there are separate mechanisms they work independently as power is
starved, unless it is intended for strange behavior to arise during
this starvation.</div>
<b>How has your process evolved over time?</b><br />
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The typical narrative of “becoming
cooler as a materials artist” means you may use the resource for a
specific task at the beginning, and then learn to design for the
resource itself, use its quirks.</div>
<b>Do you consider the visual aesthetics in addition to the audio
aesthetics?</b><br />
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Sure, but I listen to sound more. I'm
a synthesizer maker so most of my time is spent critiquing sounds,
but also, realize that solar sound art is usually outside, and its
sound-mark extends over a farther range than its physical presence.
It's like asking if the bird considers calls or plumage more
important. Birdcalls signal danger or food, but plumage is basically
for sex.</div>
<b>When I was talking with Daniel Fishkin, he talked a lot about
the impact your solar circuits had on him. Could you describe your
approach to designing circuits?</b><br />
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I'd like to point you to an article I
wrote on designing the Solar Sounders for eContact! It's called <a href="https://econtact.ca/18_3/blasser_solarsounder.html">Bird,Monk, Train: Three Approaches to a Solar Sounder Workshop</a>. It is
about emulating the calls of those three things for a solar sounder
piece to interact with the long-term outdoor environment.</div>
<b>What resources do you wish were available to you when you
started building PV based art?</b><br />
I think electronic sound engineers and composers could work with
outdoor metal artists more, because they have the facilities to cast
a case that is weather proof. I keep my solar sounders in windows to
protect them, and really my shed in the backyard is like a meta-case
for the ensemble, but the fact is that most electronic sound
engineers don't think about weather proofing because it is assumed
for good reasons that their work is conducted in climate controlled,
indoor environments.<br />
<b>What are misconceptions you encounter when you present PV art
to the public?</b><br />
Let's talk about any conceptions at all, I mean I think it's
pretty unknown still. Most artists like to think of their art as
permanent, solid, and thus would prefer to think of it as powered by
the wall. That's a misconception right there, is wall power more
permanent than solar power?
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I don't think of an audience for solar sounders, they are just
there. In my yard, I have them in a small potting shed painted red. I
polished the windows and put a shelf in them so solar sounders can
sit there and absorb the south-western sky. The shadow of the
neighbors' cedar tree is a sort of pause in the morning ritual,
especially on bright summer days. But don't underestimate the
solar-power qualities of a snowy landscape, even on a cloudy day.
Actually, I do think of the audience, but I'd like to expand that
idea to crows, my neighbor raking leaves, and especially kids playing
on a sunny day; isn't that a fresh ear for electronic music? I work
directly adjacent to the kindergarten playground. I don't think most
kids notice the sounds because they are a constant in their
experience of the playground, but that's because they only play on
sunny days. There's a whole other time of darkness, where the solar
sounders are off, and the audience experience is more subtle then: a
dog-walker hears silence. Actually this doesn't just have to do with
solar powered synthesizers; when any synthesizer is off, is it dead
or sleeping?<br />
<b>Are there concepts that solar power allows you to explore
and/or express that other mediums would not?</b><br />
Let's say for the point of the answer, that there are two kinds of
solar power for art: regulated and unregulated. You can see where I'm
going here; I'm interested in unregulated because it swings
dramatically according to the movement of the sun and the weather.
That said, I'm not interested in solar power as a gesture controller;
I have made gesture controllers that I feel are more intimate and
musical. Also the solar power is a great direct connection between
light and sound; in solar sounders I don't use it to charge
batteries, but there is a big capacitor that you do need if you want
to drive a speaker and not jack the circuit. In regulated solar
power, you would make it solid, or steady, for most of the range in
full sun, but it would turn off or disappear when under-powered in dim
light. I like to explore that lower range, and listen to the
variations of nature with the naked power supply unregulated. My
favorite are when the clouds are granular with spaces of clear sky
between, and also the swaying of tree shadows in the wind. With
multiple solar sounders, you can chorus and leverage these luminous
effects.<br />
<b>Are there challenges which are unique to solar power or
sustainable energy systems more generally that you have encountered
while working with this material?</b><br />
The solar sounders are some of the lowest hanging fruit available
out there: just pick a simple electronic circuit and make it sing
nicely at all light levels, think about voicing it. It's more of a
resource and you can focus on your compositional problems, like
voicing highs and lows, timbre, and pitch movement. The power
transfer is direct. With Tocante, I designed a solar battery charger
that works in all light by using an inductor to boost any energy and
dump it into the battery. With that I feel like it was more of a
challenge because I wanted to get the most efficient energy transfer
and have it work in all circumstances. I remember doing a Tocante
workshop in San Diego, and we tried to charge them in some really
harsh California light, and they conked out at the brightest. We
eventually switched out the inductor values and that fixed it, but it
shows how doing a specific task with a variable energy such as solar
is more challenging than just saying, “what can I make with a
variable power source?”<br />
<b>What resources do you turn to when designing a solar power
project? How do you problem solve and troubleshoot?</b><br />
You should pick your panels first. I think the questioner here
knows about that. On your website you seem to be working with
interesting “shards” of panels, and micro-wiring them together.
It's a comment on the waste materials of electronic industry, which
can either go into the ground or we can try to keep up with them...
Once you have your power supply, everything else seems to come from
that, you put a motor in, I just used some of my work already with
analog synths. I am interested in older, more primitive circuits and
solar power was a great venue for that. My friend Dan Conrad gave me
a toy phaser from the 60s. By listening to its little electronic
sound, I could tell that it was made with discrete components,
transistors, and it was analog. This is because of its action; on
depressing the trigger, it swooped up with a little organic startup
sound, and upon releasing, it did not immediately stop but made this
wonderful sighing fade. The designers gave it this boinginess by
putting a capacitor on the power supply, essentially making it
variable like a solar panel on a cloudy day. So people have been
using this variability since the 60s at least, and the circuits are
out there; listen to the internet and click on your friends for help!<br />
<b>Do you have a sense of how many artists are working in this
space? What does the community around solar power art look like?</b><br />
Lucier did something in the 70s, and I think it used regulated
power, even batteries. I've seen other solar art used in this
regulated way, sometimes just an amplifier playing samples. To me,
that didn't quite question the medium enough. I have a concept,
called the “interrogajoke.” it is both an interrogation and a
joke on some conception. Here, the interrogation should be about why
hasn't anyone treated solar power as fundamentally different from
wall power? The joke, for me, is about taking ones-self seriously.
When I think of my skills at emulating a bird or a Tibetan monk with
a transistor circuit, I do chortle to myself, but I'd rather poke
around at the strange sounds that result than try to plan a piece
from the beginning according to my own expectations. I want to see
more people playing with the power supply, making jokes or whimsies
with it, rather than composers or artists trying to own it with a
definitive “piece.”<br />
<b>Can you describe the type education projects you're involvedd
with? Who are the students?</b><br />
I did a workshop tour last November, in Europe, where we assembled
solar sounders as community arts projects. The thing about November
in Rotterdam is that there's a lot of gray sky, however I did find
one moment in the day where I could project some sounds into the
Dutch alleyway. Also, in Stockholm it was dark by the time we
finished but I checked them with some strong lights inside the
electronic music studio. That was an interesting turn for me, I
realized due to the contingency of the solar medium, that I won't
actually be there for the interesting sounds, in the summer. I can
remove my self that way.<br />
<b>Do you have a particular teaching philosophy or method?</b><br />
The idea for the solar powered workshop tour was twofold: to have a
capitalist part and a community part. The solar sounders are kept in
community studios, such as Worm in Rotterdam, EMS in Stockholm, and
Patch Point in Berlin. They are like a library, or part of an
instrument library; if it's a nice day outside, members can check
them out and put them outside, usher them around town to find some
really interesting places for an intervention of solar art. The
capitalist part was about individuals assembling Tocante kits to take
home, a nice synthesizer for your art and collection.<br />
<b>How do you define learning objectives and successful projects?</b><br />
Since the feedback is not immediate, such as I explained in the
European winter for solar sounders, it takes time to trickle in. So,
it's actually an open-ended project. Ideally though, the library of instruments
should be protected, repaired, there should be stewards. Luckily
there are some really good stewards in all the people who maintain
their own or community electronic music studios.<br />
<b>Are there particular challenges when teaching projects that
incorporate solar power?</b><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Just what is evident about the
relationship between the electronic music studio with its healthy
complement of night-people, dramatic dim lights, and the outdoors,
sunshine and weather.</span><br />
<b>In addition to the academic aspect of my research, the main
public facing components I'm working towards are 1) a user friendly
online archive of artists and creative projects involving solar
power 2) a framework for solar power design 3) instructional
resources for artists and designers interested in working with solar
power. Would resources like these address gaps in available
information in this space? Would resources like these be of practical use to you, other
artists or your students?</b><br />
I would just like to point out one thing, that at IRCAM in its heyday, whenever that was, they had a "diagonal" department, which cut across all the fields represented in the basement, computer music, composition, art, and engineering. The diagonal also represents a line of flight in the Deleuzian sense, that seeks to escape the constraints of stratification; it may incorporate other fields such as landscape design and sports, and other activities involving a sunny day.<br /><b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">For sale this Esoteric
Friday, 11/23/2018, are four new SHBOBO SHTARS. This instrument is a lot
of work to get right, but I wanted to challenge myself to bring new
users to it, at HALF PRICE! <br /><br />Since I machine the acrylic
face-plates out of milky plastic and smoky plastic, there are four
permutations: smoke/smoke, milk/smoke, smoke/milk, and milk/milk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">The
SHBOBO SHTAR is a "Computer Music Persian Tar," respectfully blending
the concept of neutral intervals, USB gesture controllers, and
everything else you would expect from pieces this beautiful! <a href="http://shbobo.net/">SHBOBO WEBSITE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">My
goal was to build them at half price, but there are also some deeper
discounts due to cosmetics. All instruments work and play exactly as
new, but the smoke/smoke and smoke/milk are discounted 50% AND $200!
Details: smoke/smoke has slightly tarnished frets because I was still
learning how to solder stainless steel correctly, smoke/milk has a
re-calibrated tailpiece because of an offset in string alignment but as I
said it plays perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: medium;">Included in the package
are extra bridges of various plastic colors, and an extra-long USB
cable. Shipping is $25 in US and $35 outside.</span></div>
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PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-66129128052259880852018-04-05T14:23:00.003-07:002018-04-05T14:23:43.507-07:00Fish 2.0<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fish is the program (for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh) to edit and upload patches for Shbobo devices (SHNTH and SHTAR). With the release of the new Shbobo SHTAR, the program has received an overhaul. Most noticeably, the older system of tabbed soups has been replaced with a universal map of the whole file as loaded. Thus, soups are all visible, adjacent to each other. It is like a world map, and users are encouraged to use both horizontal and vertical layouts to organize their patch ideas. </div>
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To
facilitate navigation, there is a Zelda, or world map, like the
Photoshop navigator, so you can click on different parts of your world
and teleport there.</div>
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The expression selection system now follows keyboard focus. Only one expression can be focused at any time, when it becomes the current object being edited. In the following picture, "slewb" is selected, as indicated by a yellow plaid fill: </div>
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As selected, various editing operations can be enacted, in addition to drag-and-drop stuff, as detailed on the "Edit" menu: </div>
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Most are self explanatory, but let's talk about the "Reference" command. This is important for writing patches in core Shlisp, where it enables feedback loops most notably. A reference is simply a fish-expression, with its "cdr" removed, so it is just the "head" or "opcode". Thus (horn 64 64) becomes (horn) as a reference. At runtime, this expression will yield the last computed value of that opcode.</div>
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In the "View" menu, note that Fish can now Zoom!...<br />
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Here's the "Shbobo" menu. "Serve selected" tries to upload the currently selected expression to your device, so you can listen to parts of patches. The command for this is redundant with the simple action of double-clicking. Yes, double click on any soup or fish to quick upload only that code! "Serve all" uploads the complete file. "Change cuisine," as before, is for re-initializing your device's DSP matrix. Note, pick "shnth.bin" or "shtar.bin" appropriate to your device. Gwonzer is a readout of the data received:<br />
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<h2>
Typewriting</h2>
Patches can be composed visually, mostly through dragging and dropping, but also keys can be used almost identically to the way they would be if it were a vanilla text editor. For example, I typed the following keys into a new file: <br />
<ul>
<li>{</li>
<li>(</li>
<li>"left" </li>
<li>enter</li>
<li>(</li>
<li>"horn"</li>
<li>enter </li>
<li>space</li>
<li>space</li>
</ul>
This is the patch that Fish thus composed (with random values for spacepress):<br />
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Doubleclick</h2>
Doubleclick shall become an important tool in this new version. As mentioned, a doubleclick on any recipe will upload it to the device. However, if you double click on the head of an expression, the symbol that denotes its opcode, the program will open up a representative help file from the local "tutor" directory. Thus doubleclicking "horn" will open up "horn.txt" to explain it.<br />
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Fish Soup Tank Boat</h2>
Let's review what expressions are. In lisp, there is only one kind of expression, besides symbols, the parentheses, (). In Shlisp, as it stands, there are Fish, and Soup, respectively denoted as () and {}. Fish is a DSP core expression, and Soup is a preset. The new version of Fish paves the way for two new types, known as Tank and Boat, denoted as [] and <>. They are not implemented yet, but Tank will be for listing things and Boat will be for scripting things in classical Lisp, thus the possibility for generative patches. Note that the previous version of Fish had randuplicate, and this has been eliminated because Tank and Boat will be bearing the burden of generating permutations of patches. <br />
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The new version of Fish is available at shbobo.net, as shbobo.zipPeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-39396745958643103262018-04-05T14:23:00.002-07:002018-04-05T14:23:34.995-07:00Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part XWhile his dog was off in outer space, Quantus meditated in the radio shack, mostly about the extreme importance of ground. "I like simple things," his thoughts said.<br />
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"These simple radio theremins require the strongest and truest source of electricity, the Earth. Otherwise, they're floating on the power lines like birds. I'm trying to broadcast the Earth here, through the air. I start with the same Earth that the corncob man, Heinmann, plows."<br />
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Quantus' thoughts drifted to space, as he envisioned his residency in a satellite transmitter: "The spaceship has no Earth, so all signals dwell within it. It's like a little environment of electronic signals. In a way, electronics are the natural life forms of outer space, for electromagnetic radiation dwells in the void. It feels good to disperse. The dog knows how to play the ship. He has a special paw-shaped button that turns off all the electronics so he can fart in the void."<br />
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The sun shone through slits in the radio shack's wooden walls. It illuminated odd corners of the room, bases for musical bagatelles about hairballs. With his sharply pointed pinky fingernail, Quantus strummed the string of his zither on the low end, producing a sharp foghorn. He looked again into the strange corner of the room, blurring his eyes to make it appear a sleepy Pacific bay. In this bay, a disturbance appeared on the water as if an actor was breaching.<br />
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Focusing his eyes, Quantus noticed a paper bag stuffed with something. The motes of dust were swirling above it in the thin beams of sunlight. Someone had stuck their hand in through the walls of the radio shack, to put that bag there. Quantus reached out with his walking stick and shuffled the bag towards him. He reached down, tipped it, and felt a wet heavy body inside. A fish fell to the ground, with red dots painted on its side.<br />
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Quantus picked it up. Its skin was not slimy, having dried to a thin leathery film over the flesh. "Did I just see its eyes light up? It must have been a trick of light as it crossed the red cornea of the fish. What a prank, a bass in a bag." He drummed his fingers on the side of the fish, and its eyes did indeed light up red.<br />
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Astonished, Quantus realized quickly that the bass contained a transducer inside its belly, and two red LEDs in its eyes: "What a strange prank! However, I think I can use this on my radio show. For optical disks we use light-sensitive diodes. I can position one on a tiny crane above the eye of this fish. Now, when I drum on the side," Boom, boom, boom, the thrilling motion of his fingertips articulated a loud sound in the radio station monitors.<br />
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The sound became radio waves in the station's transmitter, and traveled over the corn fields, and one of these waves reached <i>Blanc</i>'s house by the lake, as he was tending his bleach-lagoon. He chuckled to himself. I had an idea to get an old MLPT (Multi Layer Piezo Transducer) from electronics surplus. I disemboweled that fish enough to slip the transducer inside. Then, I drilled the eyes of that fish out, and inserted red LEDs. So <i>Blanc</i> chortled to himself mischievously. To bring the dead bass firmly into the domain of his personal artistic medium, he painted red dots on its side, as a secret message to his frenemies within the sect.<br />
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<i><b>In the next installment of "Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence,"</b></i><br />
<i>Blanc's bleach-lagoon.<b> </b></i>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-85317266374165847102018-03-02T09:05:00.004-08:002018-03-02T09:05:58.880-08:00Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence @ Radio Shack, Part IXThe dog is shaggy and sometimes looks gaseous in form but this is
only when photographed. For in the real world, on the pine-root paths
between the zither shed and the radio shack, the dog is real to the
monk, searching out squirrels and running up to sniff his sandals while
Monk thinks about the invisible shape of his radio fields.<br />
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What
was his instrument used for in the beginning, when a man chopped a
plank off of a Pawlonia trunk? Perhaps the tree was hit by lightning
and it split exactly into the phallic purple-white-tan zither that he is
custodian of. He knows that silk is an important part of the equation,
just as much as nylon is, for the ancients would not have heard the
potential of Pawlonia without the crystal tones of stretched silken
filaments, buttressed by the arch of the branch: convex for koto,
straight for qin. <br />
<br />
"This koto is for my wife on the
internet, for she takes the curved wood and I take the straight wood.
My zither is played like a man who is chanting lowly and inflecting with
slow movements accompanied by the rustling of his rob, and of course
the sound of the fans that cool the transmitter, birds outside of the
shack."<br />
<br />
The monk hears the wind in the pines, and
impromptu, as is allowed by tradition, he recites a poem over broad
zither strokes, in a dry lilting voice which then becomes wet and sloppy
as he turns the feedback up on his radio-zither, high chaotic tones
enter the situation: bombs in the pines, shrieks elicit from radio
receivers across the land. The corn-cob-man, listening, has a stroke;
immediately Monkletto senses this, and putting his facemask on, steps
out into the sofa... <br />
<br />
<i><b>The Dog Does the Drugs</b></i><br />
"I
like poop," says the dog. "Now when I go out in the pines because my
monk is playing those post-musical high frequencies which beat in my
ear, I go and look for poop out in the fields past the pines. Out here I
can hear still his matrix of ultrasound, but it is fading out into the
wind, squirrels, and cows. I comb the grass for poop, poop that grows
mushrooms. Quantus Monk is projecting structured ultrasound into the
fields, and transmitting this on the radio too. <br />
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<i><b>In the next installment of "Quantus Barney: Secluded Residence,"</b> </i><br />
<i>On first encountering the monk Quantus Barney, playing his zither in a concert hall.</i>PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-70125308567474596722018-03-02T08:58:00.001-08:002018-09-10T10:34:46.949-07:00SHTAR MANIFESTO<h2>
SHTAR MANIFESTO </h2>
Think about the bumper sticker "this machine kills fascists." The most appropriate place for this sticker, according to Woody Guthrie and your own good conscience, is on a musical instrument.<br />
Music affects our emotions. Overly simple music is emotionally manipulative. Think of war marches, pop music, and religious (not esoteric) mood play. The core flaw of Western Music is its division into happy and sad, major and minor.<br />
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In America, we are musically bipolar. The simple message of Islamic music, I feel, is offering a most sublime alternative: analog gradience between minor and major. Like non-representational art, it leaves out the extremes of hate and love.<br />
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Our research into 17 tone equal temperament (17tet) goes back a decade, when Carson Garhart and I built our first Namastitar, fretted in just intonation according to the ratios outlined by Zalzal. Our goal was to respectfully recreate neutral seconds and thirds.<br />
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<i>The affect of netural intervals is one of yearning, perpetuity, and eternal motion.</i> <i>-Ron Shalom</i><br />
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Foucault admired the Iranian revolution because of its return to irrationality in the face of modernism, and its spirituality. The way to transmute our president begins with this irrationality and ends with solving global imperialism.<br />
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Protest music has always been termed "noise" and "irrational;" It strikes a dissonant chord. In the Bush years, it was literally "noise music." We seek an evolution of protest noise that is not literally noisy.<br />
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The band "Sun City Girls" termed their music as "disorientalism:" an appropriation that makes you dizzy, or a misinterpretation that creates new appreciation for the world. When we first fretted an instrument in 17tet, we heard its neutral thirds quite clearly.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If I had made the SHTAR in 12tet, it would not have 33 frets, because that would be impossible on any instrument but a berimbau. 33 frets is a lucky number, because it uses a 32-bit computer, and there is an extra one for emergency situations. -Peter B</span><br />
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The Persian Tar's neck is made of walnut and its body of mulberry, which are also common American fine hardwoods, so we can understand this instrument materially. Whereas the tar uses goat, the SHTAR uses acoustic plastic for its skin. Likewise a bridge in bone became one of black gold: smoked polycarbonate.<br />
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It is strung in bronze: although it is weaker it is more resonant. The bronze age of music was like the Baroque, offering microsound for soft touchers. What Foucault saw as the creative force in Iran was to skip modernism and reconnect spirituality to the bronze age. He also admired closeness to danger.<br />
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A computer music system in Islamic tuning requires an intellectual commitment. Contrasted to analog culture, offering instant and intuitively fun sounds, this instrument must take years to develop a relationship. That's the epitome of computer music; it's a different business plan encompassing hacking and the idea of the recipe.<br />
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Everyone knows that taking pictures of a modular, or trying to write down the patch system, is bogus. The dial's gradience is the true basis of the composition, and it is anti-semiotic. but in computer music, a score, or text, is truly a legitimate thing.<br />
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Musically, Christianity prefers intervals of salvation, and Islam those of yearning; one is simplifying, the other is subliming. In Phillip K. Dicks "Divine Transformation," a major world religion is Islamo-Christianity. In this world, what would the pop singer Linda Fox sound like?<br />
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-Control NYC, November 2017 (Thanks to Rachelle)<br />
<h2>
Bibliography </h2>
Afary, Janet and Anderson, Kevin B: Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islam.<br />
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Farhat, Hormoz: The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music.<br />
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Note</h2>
During the time of the SHTAR development, my friend Daniel Fishkin invited me to have a lesson with Professor Shahrokh Yadegari, at UCSD. Miller Puckette also stopped by, who immediately recognized the "fret-scanner" nature of the instrument. Shahrokh's response was from an Iranian who had left that country to live in the alien shores of California, and likewise had spaced out in the basements of IRCAM, a formidable French presence. The fact that he knows well the Persian Tar made his response that much more heartfelt. Understanding the populist nature of my computer music controller's gesture, he cautioned that the neutral third is chosen by the musician, so fixed frets could never accommodate the truly esoteric nature of seeking the sublime neutrality; the ancient Tar uses rawhide sinews tied on the neck, that can be moved anytime according to the tarrist.<br />
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As a junior to these professors, I prepared my thesis defense. I explained that radical cuts are to be made in the 70s matrix of technology, so I could produce a lightweight instrument that stabs at esotericity, a compromise. And that adding computer music to the heart of the instrument is an attempt to regain this esotericity "lost" in the body of the instrument. That the fret-scanner is not for each string, but is "monophonic" is not a detriment but a simplification of an important bottleneck in a string synth: too much data. At this point in my defense, I pointed out that Pat Methaney had a six-string scanner-synthesizer, but his solos are usually monophonic. So are Fripp's, concluding my 70s references. The tar had doubled strings, but this one does not; the chorusing and tremolo effects are to be regained in a new way from the computer music.<br />
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POST SCRIPT</h2>
<i>Dear Charlemagne Palestine,<br />i saw your concert last Fall in Sophienkirche. <br />I had been waiting a long time to hear your organ performance live,<br />ever since my friend Ezra Buchla gave me a CD in college,<br />when I apprenticed to organ builders in Oregon and Ohio.<br />I noticed that your current work has more glory-of-god dominant modulation,<br />and I wonder if you think so too ?)<br /><br />I am not Muslim, in fact my middle name is Christian.<br />However, I often meditate on how immigrants enrich my country,<br />even though some were slaves to it. <br />Your name is composed of a holy roman emperor and a trodden Islamic state,<br />have you ever thought of it that way ?)<br /><br />I am a synthesizer builder, and honestly<br />I wanted to show you one but I am cautious after shows,<br />so I stood outside instead. <br />I have released a string instrument with embedded computer music,<br />in an tuning good for Islamic music,<br />like the neutral intervals in the call to prayer:</i><br />
<i>17 tone equal temperament, have you heard of it?<br /><br />My dream project is to convert a pipe organ <br />(for the glory of Fid)<br />retuning it to this scale, with neutral intervals.<br />If you ever notice a mosque in Berlin that wants this radical project,<br />let me know!</i><br />
<br />PeterB:JustBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00034519914484741409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007153105280643396.post-79511525684309931622017-11-02T19:29:00.001-07:002017-11-02T19:29:18.189-07:00Introduction to Fishbobo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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