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[ellips_s]

[xenus_dad]

Dream waiting to be realized.

[Cementimental]

Made a tiny and very loud white noise module from a cheap Chinese eBay kit

noise

SO THERE.

[AlessandroBonino]

This is a picture, a moving picture with sound (yay! The future!). It’s part of a live video filmed on the John Cage train. John Cage, in 1978, organized a “prepared train”, where passengers could walk and have different listening experiences. This year, the same people that helped putting it together in 1978 organized a recreation of the event, on a steam train, between the same towns (Bologna and Porretta Terme), and invited me and some other Italian musicians and noisemakers. The trip was about three-hour long, and we played all the time. Here they caught me playing with norns study #1 and the Landscape Stereo Field.

Alessandro Bonino

[Cementimental]

Refurbished the old Ghostbox for our Isn’tses gig at DIY Space for London this evening. Funny repairing 18 year old circuitbends, like did I use a 47k log pot because that was the ideal range for that particular control discovered via hours of testing different things, or was it just the only pot I had to hand ripped from some old radio? in this case 100k Lin seems to work fine/better.

[MatthewAshmore]

I needed more space so I converted one of those $30 Walmart cubby things and some $5 bed risers. Pretty pleased!

And if I want a standing setup all I have to do is switch the key step and mantis. Surprisingly sturdy thanks to the $5 roll of the no slip goodness.

[davidjez]

[Simeon]

Fed up of plugging gear in for half an hour for small gigs and support slots. Here’s my one case, all wired in improv set up. Just lift the lid and go!!

[Toaster]

Working on a new song. I’ve been tearing apart and rebuilding setups for each new tune.

[jlmitch5]

Is this a new style 256? I didn’t even know that was a thing!

EDIT: whoops perspective messed me up. That’s 8x16 (128)

[electret]

Playing ambient at a design conference today

[rumorazzi]

Nice!
What software runs on your gameboy?
I used to make noises with nanoloop ages ago.

[1234]

Nice one, looking into doing the same. What case are you using?

[Simeon]

@rumorazzi - This is Nanoloop Mono, which sounds nothing like a Game Boy, but that I’d proper recommend. It’s a kind of paraphonic 303-style analogue filter in a gameboy cart (I know, how does Olivier do it?!) but the sounds really fit well with the Nanoloop interface. Here’s a link: http://www.nanoloop.de/mono/ I’ve been producing using LSDJ for years under the moniker DoNotRunWithPixels, but this isn’t that, and that isn’t this…

@1234 - It’s just a generic, no-brand large pedal board. I just happened to be the right size, and not too heavy. I wanted to do this in a pelican case, the larger Pelican Air case was about right, but I didn’t want to spend as much on the case as the stuff inside it. I usually drive to my gigs, as I’m in the UK, so it’s pretty easy. This is more about ease-of-use than it is about protection.

[emenel]

Making progress.

Still to finish building: VCFS, LGP/Timbre. And the final empty space is going to be a custom module from Loudest Warning with Res EQ, Ring Mod, and VCA.

I have a new album coming soon that was recorded entirely with this setup, more info soon!

[Simeon]

Serging hell! That’s a lot of Serge.

[cmcavoy]

Louis meant to submit this picture to this thread, but he accidentally sent it to the NYTimes. Sweet home studio Louis!

[disquiet]

His home in Corona, Queens, is a cool house museum, should you ever get the chance to visit.

[TonyIdaho]

Corona, Queens

thanks for the heads up! lives in Astoria, never knew about it.

[disquiet]

Definitely worth a visit. I was there quite a ways back, so I don’t know how it’s changed in terms of how it’s presented, but I trust it’s still worth the trip. One thing to keep an eye out for, not that it won’t be obvious: Armstrong’s wife, Lucille, had a serious thing for wallpaper.