I’ll be showing some work at the Lost Horse Gallery in Reykjavik as part of the Sequences festival from October 12th-17th. I’ll be in the gallery installing from the 5th till the 12th. Stop by and say hi!
Back in NYC I’ll be playing at Monkey Town with noise master power house Non Horse on October 26th. Four projection screens. Sound scape immersion. Gourmet food. 50 person capacity…. so demand tickets now.
They’re showing the movie Mind Game on September 29th and 30th. It’s FREE (with a $10 minimum for drinks or food). This is a totally great movie. Light, crazy, trippy, fun and deep all at once. recommended by me.
I’ll also be showing drawings and other 2D artwork at ABCnoRio in November. exact date TBA.

All sounds are generated by the modular synth (right) and two heavily modified barbie karaoke machines which have been mounted into a single housing (top left).

The synth is feeding through and being processed by one of the barbies. The second barbie is generating it’s own sounds. Both barbies are being controlled by the step sequencer (bottom left).
The synth is being controlled by the pulse divider (bottom center) and melody sequencer (top right).

All three sequencers are sync’d together using a common clock signal.

The first batch of 25 is ready to go and I’m taking orders.

The C1 is available in three styles:
CS1 Speak&Spell
CM1 Speak&Math
CR1 Speak&Read

There’s tons of info on the C1 page
including videos
lots of sounds
and a complete users manual.
Units can be purchased here.

Thanks to Geoff Molt at Section9Studios for helping me get the C1 page working.

Interview on NPR’s Brian Lehrer show.

Here’s the interview:

I’ll be on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC at 11:00 am on friday 5/9/08.
It will be broadcasting live….so anything can happen.
The stations in NYC are 93.9 FM and 820 AM. You should be able to listen to it online by going to the WNYC website and clicking on the “listen live” link.

New piece in the finished pieces section. This is a rehoused and modified BOSS PS-3 pitch shifter pedal built for Otto Von Shirach.

I’m back from the LA bent fest and finished up with the NY one and I’m worn out! It was a whole lot of fun and I wish I was off to Minneapolis for more, but I’m happy to be back in the studio. I raffled off some Speak&Spells, met LOTS and lots of people, played with some awesome hand built instruments and made some music.
Big ups to DJ Tendraw, eraSure, Mimo, phil, Aaron, Dr.Rek, Austin, Alex, Joker, ….um ….who else? You know who you are.

Here’s an awesome picture from the NY fest taken by Christopher McDonald using his amazing LED printer. You really have to see it to believe/understand it. Check out Chris’ fantastic work here

There are a whole bunch of photo sets available from NY and LA and I’m sure there will be a bunch from Minneapolis. Click on the images below to link to the appropriate sets.

Los Angeles

Here’s a set from Univac.

Here are some beautiful pictures of the CRAZY LA venue.

LA photo set by Cooper Baker.

New York

Pictures by Mattew Besinger.

NY set from Alex of Getlofi.com

There are lots of videos available as well. Here are two sideways videos from my performance in LA.

on a side note, today was a day of awesome news. I was asked to speak on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC FM next month. I spoke with Mark Hosler of Negativland today who told me that they have a new album coming out this summer(!!!) with my circuit bent sounds all over it. so look for that! Also I was asked to speak at Hasbro toys in June for “inspiration day” (how crazy is that?) whoop

Attention all New Yorkers and Los Angelites!!!
I will be at the upcoming bent festivals in both LA and NY showing off and demoing my

new product!

After years of working on the Texas Instruments Speak&Spell I have come up with a design that incorporates the best bends into a rugged, utilitarian and affordable design.

This piece is brand new and there are tons of details to follow including pics, videos, online manual and add on features…such as the LFO module pictured on the Speak&Read in my last post.
Below is a picture showing some of the standard features:
-atari controller port
-guitar strap pegs
-locking 1/4″ audio jack
-pitch adjustment body contacts
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-sound activated LED
-3 glitch switches
-LOOP switch and adjustment
-HOLD switch and adjustment
-pitch adjustment
-industrial reset button

The LA fest starts this thursday April 17-19. The NY fest is April 24-26.

Go here to learn more about dates and locations!

BENT FEST WEBSITE

I will be performing in LA on saturday the 19th at 10 pm at Zero Point 1049 E 32nd St.
I will be selling the 3 units I bring to the fest and taking pre orders. Orders placed at the fest will receive a special discount. And buttons….there will be buttons.