TelePlug

Telephone Plugin Emulator..

VST plugin to make audio sound like it's coming out of a phone or walkie talkie..

NES Joystick To Arduino

Totally works..! Video Coming Soon...

Instant Hit Maker

Here's a performance by Magelllan, my singing laptop. I wrote a program called 'instant hit maker' that writes it's own songs. It searches twitter for a topic(what you want the song to be about) and compiles lyrics from twitter posts. The program calls festival to translate the text into a computer synthesized wave file. The program then calls pure data with a patch to play back the vocal tracks with random music files. The music files were made in reason and all in the key of C or A and are meant to sound cheesy songs. This project was made to make poke fun at some of the popular music of todays culture by Combining the lyrics compiled by a robot with recycled musical structures.

i circuit bent this!

Two Player MBira

In the Winter of 2008 Bobby Bray and I built a two player Mbira. It was a project for Miller Pucketts acoustics class. The instrument's function was to produce beating and attempt to harmonize pitch and rhythm.. One side of the instrument was tuned in the stand equal temperament fashion. The other side was slightly out of tune. The difference in frequency is related to the amount of beats you hear per second. The higher octave was turned 9 hz from the standard frequency and the lower octave was turned 3 hz off.

We wouldn't of been able to do this without the help of Bill Wesely, who generously showed us his mbira making factory!

So a month or so ago i spent a good amount of time hanging out with some french people. Dj Urine, from france asked me to circuit bend a distortion pedal for him. How could i say no? It was video recorded by Anita, who is also from france:






Here are some pictures:

1. Pedal in use at Dj Urine Concert:


2. Still clipped..

My First Guitar Pedal. The Do Nothing

I made this last summer. (probably July 2009)

My first complete guitar pedal the do nothing pedal. Also known as the seinfeld of all guitar pedals. When you push the red button, it cuts the signal, so you can tap on the pedal and do rhythmic chops. Pretty basic, two 1/4" Jacks connected to a normally closed push button. When push the button it grounds the signal.