Glacial Communications

I’ve got a couple of appearances coming up soon:

• April 4th, at Notacon in Cleveland – I’ll be giving a presentation titled “Your Circuits, Let Me Help You Bend Them”. Originally envisioned as a circuit-bending workshop, it seems to be evolving into a more general DIY electronic music overview. If you’re coming and have an interesting instrument you would like to show off, let me know – I want to try to have a “show and tell” section to the presentation. If there is interest in some hands-on musical hacking, comment and we’ll try to get some space and time for a session.
• April 18th and 19th, at Penguicon in Troy, Michigan. I’ll be administering(?) two workshops – one on the Arduino platform on the 18th, and one on “circuit-bending” (but more likely, playing with Paia 2-transistor ribbon controller kits). Actual circuit-bending may occur, but you may wish to contact me ahead of time.

If you’re attending either of these, I have checklists of useful information and tools/parts to bring here (for circuit-bending) or here (for Arduino)

Also, you may want to stay tuned here or at my LJ for any updates.

So, not only did I release an album over the weekend, but I’ve got plugins to release today!

Shortwave Emulator has been updated – There were some minor bugs when the filters were set to zero (feedback is fun!) that have been fixed, and a new parameter (modulation!) has been added. I think it sounds closer to the real thing than the previous version, anyway.

And now a new effect – Imaginary Reality. This one is pretty simple. Sonicbirth’s FFT-based units take audio in, and convert it to a real and imaginary axis. This effect flips them around and lets you screw with them a little bit. I think it’s a neat sound, anyway.

Get ‘em on ye olde software page!

I finished my RPM Challenge album on Friday, mailed it off on Saturday, and I’m now in the process of uploading it. You can get it here at NEOelectro.