Handmade Electronic Music offers an engaging guide for crafting sound-producing electronic devices with its hands-on, experimental approach. Readers learn to exploit the creative potential of hardware hacking to take full advantage of creating new sonic worlds through objects like radios and toys; how to quickly make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators distortion boxes and mixers.
Circuitry
An electronic circuit consists of components, such as resistors, capacitors and transistors connected by conductivity through wires or traces which allow electric current to pass freely between them. Electronic circuits form the basis of electronic devices; in this book you’ll discover how to construct simple ones which generate sound.
This book assumes no prior knowledge of electronics, taking you on an intriguing series of sound-producing electronic construction projects from making contact microphones to transforming cheap electronic toys into playable instruments, oscillators distortion boxes and mixers with unusual signal processing and oscillators, distortion boxes or mixers of your own creation with unusual signal processing features. Furthermore, artists that have used DIY hardware in their works provide additional historical and aesthetic context while audio samples by them.
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Handmade Electronic Music provides an engaging introduction to the practice of creating electronic circuits specifically for musical use. Perfect for musicians, composers and artists, this book will teach how to subvert their original designs by circuit bending devices such as radios or toys; making them your own through circuit bending! With 13 video tutorials and 87 audio tracks on its companion website this third edition offers even greater coverage.
Electronics
This book was designed with musicians/composers in mind rather than electronic engineers in mind, so any technical terms are explained simply and directly. This makes the text easier to comprehend while also eliminating excessive technical jargon; thus enabling readers to move swiftly through several sound-producing electronic construction projects such as contact microphones, electromagnetic field pickups, oscillators and distortion boxes.
The author also puts these techniques into a historical and aesthetic context by providing information and audio tracks by artists who use similar devices in their work. With an experimental spirit and hands-on demonstrations, she also shows readers how to build their own condenser microphone, pseudo-theremin, analog to digital converter and animated dagguerreotype devices as part of various fun projects involving electronics in music production.
Electronics is an area of physics and electrical engineering which studies electron emission, behaviour and effects within vacuums and gases as well as their manipulation through electrostatic and magnetic fields. This field was responsible for the creation of key devices like electron tubes, photoelectric cells and transistors. Electronics is an indispensable element of modern life and remains one of the most exciting creative fields today, both for musicians and other practitioners. Electronics was at the heart of several musical breakthroughs such as Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie I and Elektronische Studie II in 1952-53 or early circuit-based synthesis by Raymond Scott and Robert Moog in the 50s.
Audio
Audio is an integral component of electronic music experiences. As its medium, it enables us to produce synthesized, processed and recorded sounds that can then be played back through loudspeakers or headphones for playback – creating music isn’t possible without audio! Audio also acts as a major source of creative potential while shaping musical language development.
Early experiments with sound processing and synthesized music used simple self-built equipment like electrostatic microphones or piezoelectric pickups on guitars for composers to explore new sonic possibilities without large scale research labs being necessary. Today, composers working with electronics have access to high quality artistic studios where they can craft their own sonic vision and realize it.
Readers with an experimental mindset can quickly learn to subvert the intentions intended into devices like radios and toys and open up a world of sonic possibilities. A little creativity will allow readers to create contact microphones, electromagnetic field pick-ups, oscillators distortion boxes and mixers cheaply and quickly – providing live electronic musicians a toolbox of electronic musical creation tools in an age when computers rule production of electronic music. Hardware hacking provides readers with an alternative means of creating music production techniques outside the realm of computers dominated music production processes by expanding live electronic production technologies while computers dominate production processes of electronic music production.