Domestic Tinnitus
This Saturday (24/03/12) I will be standing in with the Vultures Quartet in providing a live soundtrack for the Victoria Snaith play, Domestic Tinnitus. After the play there will be some noisy improvised performances between the Vultures, Caroline Pugh, Adnan Marquez-Borbon and myself. Expect a mixup of homemade electronic and acoustic instruments and wild improvised sounds! Tickets for the event are available here. Bright Club Belfast
This Thursday (22/03/12) I will be performing at Bright Club Belfast with Will Connor of the London based Vultures Quartet. Bright Club is “the thinking person’s variety night, where comedy meets curiosity.” This month the theme is conflict, with a load of speakers, comedians and us making a load of noise! Expect home-made sounds, electronics and blind improvisation. The event page is here, tickets available here & here. Days on End Workshop
This weekend the updated version of my Atari-Noise Board will be making noise at the ‘Electronics, Instruments and Sound’ workshop at the Days on End Festival in Cork. Robby Collins, Ed Devane and Diarmuid MacDiarmada will be building and exploring electronic instruments with participants in what sounds like a great workshop! Atari-Noise Board 1.2
I just received the updated version of my Atari-Noise Board. This new version has some updates on the PCB adding a few components (on/off switch, pot values..) and updating the design slightly. It will be available to purchase shortly! Impromptu Improvisation
I will be performing with several others at this Rachel Austin event in Auntie Annies in Belfast this weekend. I am playing with Connor Barry and others to provide improvised incidental music sporadically throughout the evening. There will be many hacked and bent instruments in my bag with which I hope to create aural delight! Here’s the tickets page and Facebook event. Coffee Tin Synth
A video I came across from Fran who attended my ‘Hacking Musical Interactions‘ workshop at NK in Berlin in June. It’s a demo of the Coffee Tin synth he made at the workshop with one of my Atari-Noise Boards. You can enjoy some of his compositional work via his Soundcloud: Atari Punk Console -> Atari-Noise Board Kits For Sale
A small, simple synth / noise-maker kit capable of a wide range of sounds. My modified version of the original Atari Punk Console, modified for greater aural pleasure. The ~2watt amp on this board gives it plenty of power to drive fairly large speakers. It is a great board for DIY synths and electronic instrument building and is capable of a lot more with some creative hacking! These kits are for sale and ready to go. They are very easy to solder together and start making sounds with. Go to the Atari-Noise Board Kit page for full details and to buy it now. Atari-Noise Cube
A new instrument – Atari-Noise Cube. A simple cube design, two-control noise box containing my Atari-Noise board. See the instrument page for full details, pictures and video. Atari-Noise Boards
Just received the first set of my Atari-Noise synths – A cheap & simple noisemaker I designed based on the Atari Punk Console, my version is a noisy squarewave oscillator controlled by two pots (frequency / pulse width). The added on-board (~2w) amplifier is pretty loud and can drive a fairly large speaker! I will be using these for future ‘hacking musical interactions’ workshops and also making them available for other noisemaking people to purchase as kits or ready made synths. More info / pictures / sounds coming shortly! Hacking Musical Interactions @ ISSTC, Limerick
I will be presenting the ‘Hacking Musical Interactions’ workshop at the ISSTC conference hosted at the University of Limerick on the 10 & 11th of August. It will be a slightly shortened workshop to fit the 3 hour schedule, but expect sufficient amounts of hacking and noise-making! Registration for the conference & workshop is available here. |
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