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.
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