Handmade Electronic Music

The Art of Hardware Hacking
3. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-21010-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 452 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 848 g

Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making—as well as creatively cannibalizing—electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. You will also learn how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, mixers, and unusual signal processors cheaply and quickly. At a time when computers dominate music production, this book offers a rare glimpse into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as more recent developments at the hands of emerging artists.

This revised and expanded third edition has been updated throughout to reflect recent developments in technology and DIY approaches. New to this edition are chapters contributed by a diverse group of practitioners, addressing the latest developments in technology and creative trends, as well as an extensive companion website that provides media examples, tutorials, and further reading. This edition features:

- Over 50 new hands-on projects.

- New chapters and features on topics including soft circuitry, video hacking, neural networks, radio transmitters, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, data hacking, printing your own circuit boards, and the international DIY community

- A new companion website at www.HandmadeElectronicMusic.com, containing video tutorials, video clips, audio tracks, resource files, and additional chapters with deeper dives into technical concepts and hardware hacking scenes around the world

With a hands-on, experimental spirit, Nicolas Collins demystifies the process of crafting your own instruments and enables musicians, composers, artists, and anyone interested in music technology to draw on the creative potential of hardware hacking.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Nicolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Instrumentenunterricht & Lernanleitungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Elektronische Musikinstrumente
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Elektronische Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to First Edition (David Behrman)

Introduction



PART I: STARTING

1. Getting Started: Tools and Material Needed

2. The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking: General Advice



PART II: LISTENING

3. The Victorian Synthesizer: Twitching Loudspeakers

4. In/Out: Speaker as Microphone, Microphone as Speaker, the Symmetry of it All

5. How to Solder: an Essential Skill

6. Circuit Sniffing: Eavesdropping on Hidden Magnetic Music

7. How to Make a Contact Mike: Using Piezo Disks to Pick up Tiny Sounds

8. Turn Your Wall into a Speaker: Resonating Objects with Transducers, Motors and More

9. Paper Speakers (Jess Rowland)

10. Tape Heads: Play Your Credit

11. Electret Microphones: Binaural on a Budget

12. Laying of Hands: transforming a Radio into a Synthesizer by Making Your Skin Part of the Circuit



PART III: BUILDING

13. My First Oscillator™: Six Oscillators on a Chip, Guaranteed to Work

14. Solder Up! From Breadboard to Circuit Board

15. Getting Messy: Modulation, Feedback, Instability and Crickets

16. Soft Circuitry: An Introduction to E-Textile Interfaces (Lara and Sarah Grant)

17. On/Off (More Fun With Photo Resistors): Gating, Tremolo, Panning and More

18. Mixers and Matrices: Very Simple, Very Cheap, Very Clean Ways of Configuring Lots of Circuits

19. Boost and Distort: A Simple Circuit that Goes from Clean Preamp to Total Distortion

20. Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort of: Modulating Other Audio with Your Circuits, Pitch Tracking, and a Sequencer

21. Beyond Bending: Triggering, Sequencing and Modulating Circuit Bent Toys (Alex Inglizian)

22. Video Hacking (LoVid (Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus) and Jon Satrom)

23. An Introduction to Op Amps

24. A Little Hacker’s Amp

25. The Mumma-Tudor Ring Modulator (Michael Johnsen and You Nakai)

26. Paper Circuits (Peter Blasser)

27. Rule the Airwaves: Build a Radio Transmitter (Brett Balogh)

28. A Grab Bag of Samples: A Voltage Controlled Radio Receiver (Holger Heckeroth)

29. A Lo-Fi Sampler and Looper (Holger Heckeroth)

30. The Bissell Function Block: A Lag Processor (Peter Speer)

31. Sounds from Neural Networks (Wolfgang Spahn)



PART IV: COMPUTING

32. Sharing Traces: Designing and Fabricating Your Own Printed Circuit Boards with Fritzing (Eduardo Rosario)

33. Microcontroller Sound (Joseph Kramer)

34. Small Sound: Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi (Robb Drinkwater)

35. Data Hacking: The Foundations of Glitch Art (Nick Briz)



PART V: CONNECTING

36. Handmade Sound Communities (Lisa Kori and David Novak)

37. Hello World!



COMPANION WEBSITE CONTENTS

1. Project Support

Sharing Traces -- Designing and Fabricating Your Own Printed Circuit Boards (Eduardo Rosario)

Microcontroller Sound (Joseph Kramer): Data files and additional projects for chapter 33

Paper Circuits (Peter Blasser): Circuit board artwork for Rungling circuit in chapter 26

Sounds from Neural Networks (Wolfgang Spahn): Circuit board artwork for Confetti Neuron circuit in chapter 31

2. Technical Bootcamp

Ohm’s Law for Dummies: How to Understand Resistors

Switches: How to Understand Different Switches, and Make Your Own

Jack, Batt and Pack: Powering and Packaging Your Circuits

Power Supplies: Carbon Footprints from AA to EEE

3. Circuit Bending

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Über Autor(innen)

Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer, has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and many other masters of modern music. Dr. Collins is a professor in the Department of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium. He has led hacking workshops around the world. He has been Visiting Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam), a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin, and a long-time Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Music Journal.