Archives: 2007 March

Archives: 2007 March

tragic

March 31st, 2007

Late Fall 1983, a young female Bigfoot (Sasquatch) approached my solo campsite. I remained quiet, calm, and totally motionless. It examined my hair, sniffed me, applied a mental force which paralyzed me, and scanned my memories. I became bored, so I scanned its mind.. and found 14 new sciences, and their 1400 untapped technologies, in their unconscious collective…

It took me 18 years and approx. 250 edits to finally include all the tiniest memories of that confrontation. I now know the base about their Species, including how to communicate with them and call them, and where to find them. Check out the internet on “Bigfoot” and “Sasquatch”. All the web pages combined know nothing about them.. except that the beasts seem like they are primates, and that they might exist… But America has one in a lab, doing vile experiments on it, in attempts to teach it sciences, so to get it to evolve our sciences, for more and more money and power… They are even making babies with it… Trouble with that, is it’s part of solid collective, which means that the rest feel all its pains and fears… America’s greedy mindless meddling is dissolving the contents of their Species collective, and the 14 sciences/1400 technologies in it… Have you noticed that the blond American Intel babe isn’t searching for Bigfoots anymore… That Species untapped mind was our Species very last option for survival… America’s insatiable greed for wealth and power has doomed all humanity to Hell…

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new bw mp3

March 29th, 2007

I was playing around with two of the walkman distortion things I made, and I got some pretty neat sounds out of them. Half the time the things don’t work, often because I forgot to put the batteries in, and they don’t behave well with other effects, but when they do actually output a signal it’s usually pretty weird. The recording is just a guitar, a contact mic, and two walkmen run through my mixer, no other effects.

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/mp3s/032907-radios-fighting.mp3

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall/

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tonight I dine on turtle soup

March 26th, 2007

I drew up a guide to making a distortion effect out of an old walkman. I’m no expert by any means, but hopefully this will inspire someone or at least show that you don’t have to know what you’re doing to start messing around with electronics.

Next I think I’m going to build one of these maybe. Also, t some point in the future I want to make a oscilloscope out of an old crt, like this kind of thing. It’s a pretty unhealthy fascination, cracking open tvs and poking around inside can kill you I guess, plus I don’t know what I’d do with it or where I’d put it. Right now I don’t really have space for the audio equipment I already own, most of my counter space is taken up by this ridiculous thing:

The other day Ned showed me a magazine called MAKE which focuses on diy technology and has a lot of how to electronics guides. On their website they have a music blog that lists some cool stuff, I really like this.

Here’s some more random music links: (1) interview with Lambsbread, a sweet noise rock trio from Ohio, I’ve seen them live a few times and they totally destroy. (2) The Rub’s radio show archive, lots of cool mixes and they’re currently in the middle of the 1980s in their History of Hip-Hop series, pretty fun stuff.

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I turned a walkman into a distortion

March 18th, 2007

http://brokenpants.com/bloodwaterfall

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tell me one more time you like the shoes I wear

March 14th, 2007

I took apart the tape machine thing and rewired it, mostly because the way it was put together before it worked okay but the knobs didn’t really work the way I wanted them to. Now it’s simple: just a line in to record and a line out from the play head, plus a cute lil bypass switch. Hooking it up to the effects send on my mixer makes it a heck of a lot more responsive, you can actually make it loop okay, have the dry and echoed signals in separate channels, etc.

I recorded some new choons last night, check it out.

Now for the news in My Stupid Life, I think I’m moving back to Evanston soon. I was there on Saturday trying to figure out living arrangments, and I saw some cool music and hung out with some friends and felt like myself for the first time in a long time

Thanks for stopping by, here’s a bonus pic of my dog:

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this is the best thing I’ve ever seen

March 11th, 2007

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tape machine and dual tone generator duel

March 4th, 2007

The tape echo box is done, and I sort of figured out levels and how to make it sound good and bad. Also, yesterday I put together a new noisemaker, a simple dual tone generator that I found plans for here. Behold:

But how do they sound? That’s the most important part! Well, I just recorded an mp3 this and uploaded it to myspace, so if you like stupid music check it out. http://myspace.com/bloodwaterfall

Right now, it’s 2am and I have to be a WORK for a stupid MEETING at 8am!!!?? Can you believe that!!!!!!

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