A petri dish full of cornstarch and water, vibrated by a 35-55hz sine wave over a period of 60 seconds.
This was a test run for my sculpture "Snowy Day".
A cymatic Sculpture, last shown at Deadline Projects' Under The Weather show.
Materials:
Aluminum, plastic, milk, sine wave.
Contact me for exhibition details.
This is a circuit-bent Kidtronix toy drum machine from the late '80s/early '90s. I added a 555-based timing circuit from a led display to make it a kind of automatic drum machine.
A device that generates spacey laser-beam type sounds by charging and discharging a large capacitor that emits AM interference. A flashbulb assembly from a disposable camera provides the capacitor and flashes the strobe when discharging.
A demonstration of Michael Una's Beep-it optical theremin synthesizer, which outputs a square wave whose pitch is variable in relation to the amount of light striking a photocell mounted within the device.
These fine musical instruments will be available for purchase shortly. More details to follow at una-love.com/muna
A movement-controlled audio generation/manipulat ion system, built from scratch. Translates gestures and dance into sound. Built/recorded 2005.
This project is currently shelved while I increase my electromechanical fabrication skillz. Eventually, I will tackle this project again and make it more rugged and also more expressive.
I walked around Philadelphia, seeing and hearing everything happening around me. This is a video cataloging the most delightful/interesti ng things I saw.
A short demo of a practice amp I made for my nephew. It's an old radioshack speaker, outfitted with an internal amplifier built around the LM386 op-amp. A quick demo of the internal feedback, then some distorted kalmiba playing
I was bored at work and decided to do a mandala sketch in a different manner.
I used my cheap lofi digital camera and took some stop-motion video of myself drawing a little radial design on a piece of paper.
I processed the video and added some music and I'm pretty happy with the results. The whole thing took less than two hours.
