Fixture Red
Jumping into the middle of the middle. Fronted by laptop playing video. Offstage live from the pit, the Barbie Sputnik, the Monotron through a Realistic Electronic Reverb set to resonate and feedback.
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
Time Three Ways
If the link works, about 11 minutes in.
AM radio heterodyning, Barbie Sputnik, feedback. - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kseward
Animal Talkers
Brief interchange from 100 Strange Sounds.
From the link:
Materials Used: Toysmith Animal Talkers, rubber cow, Macbook Pro, SuperCollider (Unlike many of the 100SS project, this one uses the computer’s built-in mic), Panasonic HC-V700M camcorder
How it was made: I found a few toys from Cracker Barrel during my last travel. This is one of the results.
Granprix Loop
Feedbacking Monotron via mini FM transmitter and FM radios. Barbie Sputnik. Rap mic feedback. Dora the Ex. cheep echo on the FM feedback. Mysterious/trashy leakage and induction.
Additional description of Granprix Loop:
The Monotron is in a feedback loop. A mini FM transmitter is plugged into to the synth’s headphone out. The combo TV/radio nearby is set to receive from the FM transmitter and its headphone out is in turn plugged into the synth’s auxillary input, thus completing the feedback loop.
The small yellow flashlight/radio is also set to receive the FM transmission and thus taps into and plays the feedback loop. For added cheep echoey goodness, a Dora the Ex. echo mic gizmo is pointed at the flashlight/radio’s speaker.
Barbie Sputnik, a circuit bent toy karaoke machine, provides some of the other sounds.
Occasionally, an off camera Rap Mike with a cheep computer speaker plugged into its output, creates a broad toned swoopy feedback.
The Monotron loop varies in intensity as the mini transmitter swings like a pendulum or other changes of position. Due to various wonky interactions, the signal of the Barbie Sputnik is sometimes induced into the other gizmos.
Thus Dame Fortune’s secret decoder message:
Nothing is ever straightforward nor should it be taken as such.
Two Band Medium
aka Festival of Lights 23. From around the time light seemed improbable.
Monotron multed and fedback via FM transmitter and radios. Trio of AM radios interacting. Realistic Electronic Reverb.
Gd&cntry hm&off No. Zero and a Half
Another noisy shadow play. This time with sound.
A live video performance with the Barbie Sputnik, the Radio Shack Stereo Amplified Listener tied into the Monotron, and two venerable goofy echo gizmos, the Spy N Discover Echo Mic and the Dora the Exp. Karaoke widget.
From early December.
Tied By Threes
aka Festival of Lights 18
About 8 minutes into a noisy pageant done last December. One of several such now on YouTube.
