Forum

This is a bulk of all the recordings and assignments that Ive completed at home during the last month for forum. The first task for the semester, the Victorian Synth, i found a bit childish. If it weren't for the breadboarding then i would defiantly be unenthusiastic about forum.

Weeks 1&2

Following on from that with the Peizo, this was a little more interesting, a small hardy microphone has a great potential for creativity, Terminator 2 as an example of this. Upon being given the kits my eyes widened with the possibility of future tasks. This is when Forum became interesting.

This is the Peizo recording that i have done at home.
http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/computerrecording.mp3

It is simply placing the Peizo against my computer casing. Although easy to be heard just by putting your ear against your PC, but still a sound that could be useful. The clicks of the hard drive could be used.

Week 3

The oscillator tasks were the best, this is defiantly where my instrument is heading. Here are my recordings.
This first one is with just 1 oscillator.
http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/Oneosscilatorwithpot.mp3

This second one is with two oscillators.
I didn't have a lot of success with this one, however there is a slight change in out put, you can slightly hear a second oscillator changing intonation.

http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/2oscillatorspotandlight.mp3

This next task was great, including a mixer with an oscillator to create a tone and intermittent signal from the output source, in this case it was from the gun given to us in forum class. This task will most defiantly be included in my final instrument.

Here is a sample of what i have done with this task.
http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/Oscillatorwithmixer.mp3

Weeks 4&5

Circuit bending wasn't as much fun as i originally thought. I found it quite frustrating at times, the "finicky" work and the inconsistency is not only the most surprising, but also the most frustrating. What i have done for homework was buy a tamogotchi and try to find a loop or sound to bend, however after playing around for a couple of minutes with no results, it finally just stopped working. Frustrating!!! So i just used the mobile phone given to us in class and found the pitch bending connection and soldered a pot in between this points. Unfortunately the circuit stopped working soon after, with no good luck trying to repair this.

Here is a diagram of what i have connected to achieve a pitch bend.
http://www.mydatabus.com/public/loudman/MobileCircuit.pdf