Handmade
Electronic
Music

Gallery of Artists' Work

Doing It Together

Circuits and strategies for socializing

Nicolas Collins
Hackers Holding Hands

(e)-Bombers:
Excerpt from Live Performance at Tama Art University, Tokyo

Lauren Carter and Joe Grimm: Picnic Party

Duncan Chapman and Stewart Collinson: The Bent Radio Orchestra

Maestros: Electricity and its Double (audio).  Duet for bassoon and bent circuits, James Fei and David Novak.

Oscillatorial Binnage (Fari Bradley, Toby Clarkson, Chris Weaver, Dan Wilson; video by Toby Clarkson): Woktones

P. Sing Cho (Knut Aufermann, Moshi Honen, Sarah Washington, Chris Weaver, Dan Wilson: Long Nosed.  Circuit Bending quintet.

Loud Objects: Live Soldering Performance

Lucas Reif: Rat King

Ralph Jones: Star Networks at the Singing Point

Nicolas Collins: Salvage (Guiyu Blues)

David Behrman: Players with Circuits.  Behrman and Gordon Mumma mix oscillators and acoustic piano into homemade ring modulators.

Adachi Tomomi: Another Ear Stretching

Coil Pickups

Sniffing electromagnetic fields

Christina Kubisch Electrical Walks

Nicolas Collins: El Loop (excerpt). Recording thru coil pickups of commute on elevated train (El) in Chicago.

Lauren Carter and Joe Grimm: Benjamin Franklin Forever.

Merche Blasco: Conversations with Anette

Andy Keep: My Laptop Colony—Colony in My Laptop. Recording thru coil pickups of an old PC computer booting up.

Neal Spowage: Electro-magnetic Wands

Lorin Edwin Parker: Steam Powered Synthesizer

Contact Microphones & Electret Microphones

The magical world of contact mikes, and their subtler electret pals

Eric Leonardson: The Springboard, as featured on Gearwire.com.

Ivan Palacky: Dopleta 180 amplified knitting machine

ADACHI Tomomi: Tomoring II

Collin Olan: Rec01 (excerpt). Piezo discs waterproofed with Plasti-Dip, frozen inside ice cubes, melting in a warm bathtub.

Peter Cusack: Baikal Ice (excerpt). Breakup of Lake Baikal ice sheet during spring thaw, recorded through hydrophones made by waterproofing piezo discs.

Richard Lerman: Changing States 6 (excerpt), 3’38”. Butane torch “bows” metal sheets and wire whiskers soldered to the edge of piezo disks.

Nicolas Collins: Tall Poppies

David Watson: Reap The Wind. Bagpipe recording.

Speakers & Drivers

Loudspeakers and transducers as musical instruments -- Rainforest and beyond

Public domain, Argentina (courtesy Nicolás Varchausky): Homemade speaker for cell phone

Matthew Miller: Victorian Oscillator Improvisation

John Bowers: Study One for Victorian Synthesizer.  Performance by the inventor of the Victorian Synthesizer.

Zoots Houston: Cymbal and Speaker

Chris Han: Day & Night

Chang Yuchen: Record

Dan Wilson: Electromagnetic Staccato Resonator

Alex Baker: Autonomous Drum Kit

Frederick Brummer: Speaker/drum

Ute Wassermann): Improvisation (excerpt). Amplified voice drives corked speaker that vibrates a gong.

Nicolas Collins: It Was A Dark And Stormy Night (excerpt) (audio).  Voice drives coils that resonate guitar strings.

Oscillatorial Binnage (Fari Bradley, Toby Clarkson, Chris Weaver, Dan Wilson): Realization of David Tudor’s “Rainforest IV”

Jesse Seay: Untitled (Resonant Objects)

Arthur Lanotte-Fauré: Lanterne Spectre

Matthew Ostrowski, Summerland

Feedback

"When you don't have an idea you can always feed back" (the infinite amplification of silence)

Lesley Flanigan: Speaker Synth

Chris Black and Christine White: Crude Awakening

John Wynne: Hearing Loss

Dan Wilson: Resonated Grille & Pitchfork Assemblies

David Behrman (video by Alberto Novello Alberto Novello): Wave Train

DJs

Spinning discs, playing grooves, pits and data files

Janek Schaefer: The Tri-Phonic Turntable

Christopher DeLaurenti: Christopher DeLaurenti Plays the Flap-o-Phone

Ferran Fages: Acoustic Turntable with Styrofoam and Wood

Ferran Fages: Acoustic Turntable with X-ray Film

Ferran Fages: Acoustic Turntable with Balloons and Springs

James Joslin: Turntable, Victorian Synthesizer and Bell

Gaspar Cohen: In-Mixer Feedback Loop + Light

Radio

Surfing the aether.

Vasco Alves: FMkbrd

Brett Ian Balogh: Random Access Radio

Sawako Kato: Love Love Crystal Radio ("ishi ~ listening stone" was commissioned by Roulette with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.)

Michael T. Bullock: Open-backed Transistor Radio

David First: Radiotron

David First, The Schumann Resonance AM Radio Band

Laying of Hands

Playing circuits by direct touch

Josh Winters: Radio Study #4. Hands on radio circuit board.

Seth Cluett: Open-backed Cassette Walkman

Emir Bijukic: Solar Cell Calculator Directly Wired to Amp

Vic Rawlings: Radio Shack Electronic Reverb and Roland Enhancer EH-2

Dan Wilcox : soundMetal

Dan Wilson : Worm Cracklebox

Nicolas Collins: The Royal Touch

Circuit Bending

Circuit Bending toys and more

Stewart Collinson: Hacked “Cyberhead”

Phil Archer: Yamaha PSS-380 (audio).  Performance on bent Yamaha keyboard.

Alex Inglizian: [dreamPhone]

Ian Baxter: The Masher

Chester Udell: Schizophrenic Zoot

Robyn Farah: Performance Video with Bent Toy

Tom Richards: The Charming of Beautiful Car

Olivia Swider: Holiday Monster

Maia Chong: Bent Things

Joker Nies: Circuit Bending the Omnichord

Antony Maubert: Extending Korg M1

Steve Marsh: Circuit Bent Stix Drum Machine

Eric Archer: Big Box o’ Techno

Kyle Evans: Hacked PC Game Controller 1

Kyle Evans: Hacked PC Game Controller 2

Florian Kaufmann: Akusynth

Kaspar König: Musguitear

Grégoire Lauvin: Touchpad Bending

Yasunao Tone: Imperfection Theorem of Silence (audio).  Playback of CD prepared by damaging surface.

hans w. koch: Computer Music I: Exploded View

Phil Archer: What’s the worst that could happen?

Jane Henry: The Chip is Down: Jerry Goes to Glory (excerpt), part 2 of In Jerry’s Wake (audio).  Violin and bent greeting card anklet.

Circuits

Mostly circuits built from scratch

Patrick McCarthy: How to Hack Together a Safety Pin Potentiometer

Tuomo Tammenpää: NandSynth

Alex Inglizian: [optoSynth]

Steve Marsh: Oscillator Machine

ADACHI Tomomi: Instruments in Tupperware Boxes

Alejandra Perez Nuñez: elpueblodechina: A Performance of (Dis)Integrated Circuits of High Energy Electronics and People

Brendan O’Connell): Osc-a-lot

Sebastian Tomczak): “Mr. Bleeper” 3-Voice CMOS Sequencer

Steve Marsh: 10-Step Sequencer

Douglas Ferguson: 10-Step Sequencer w/Poly-Rhythmic Clock

Florian Kaufmann: Sequenz 16

Grégoire Lauvin: Potatoes Organ (Orgue à Patates)

Phil Archer : Plants

Ithai Benjamin and (Alejandro Abreu: Synthinetic

Phil Archer: Music Boxes

Zach Lewis: Electric Guitarscillator

Robert Poss: Dicer.  Guitar through “Fuzzy Dicer” circuit.

Peter Blasser: Radio Zither

Florian Kaufmann: Satrap-Aktiv

Florian Kaufmann: Typosynth

Seth Cluett: Matrix-Router

Zoots Houston: Crystal Oscillators

Todd Bailey: Where’s The Party At?

Phillip Stearns: AANN: Artificial Analog Neural Network

Visual Hacking

Hacking for the eye

Arthur Elsenaar and Remko Scha: Face Shift – Algorithmic Facial Choreography

Jon Satrom: The Vitch

J. D. Kramer: The Permutator

Jordan Bartee: Bent Gear

Luke Abbott, Phil Archer and Dan Tombs: Bent New York 2006 (excerpt)

LoVid: Venus Mapped

Phillip Stearns: Pixel Maelstrom

Ilias Anagnostopoulis: The Bob System Analog Modular Audio/Visual Synthesizer

Michal Dudek: Modulating an LCD TV

BMBCon: LCD Video Projector

Nicolas Collins: Daguerreotypes

Joe Grimm: Epiphenomenal Boogie

Jeffrey Byron and Jay Trautman: Light-governed Self-oscillation of 555 Timers

Norbert Möslang: Blinking Lights.  Photocells detect bicycle flashers and other blinking lights.

Andy Guhl: The Instrument: LED-Painting 1

Andy Guhl: The Instrument: Double Frequencies

Stephen Vitiello: World Trade Center Recordings. Photocell on the eyepiece of a telescope aimed at lights on nighttime traffic, from his studio in the World Trade Center.

Ithai Benjamin: Light Theremins

Nicolas Collins: In Memoriam Michel Waisvisz

Christian Terstegge: Ohrenbrennen (“Ear-burn”) (audio).  Four oscillators controlled by candles.

Machines & Installations

Things that move, and are mostly bigger than a breadbox

Leah Crews Castleman: Compose, Construct, Control

Marc Berghaus: Proof #1 (Stone)

Valve/Membrance (Keisuke Oki, ASUNA, Minoru Sato): Excerpt from Performance

Chris Powers: Mouth & Hips

Grégoire Lauvin: BioOsc

Martin Riches: MotorMouth