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- Book Title
- Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking
- Publication Date
- 2006-04-04
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN
- 9780415975926
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Handmade Electronic Music : the Art of Hardware Hacking
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 10in
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Item Width
- 7.1in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making--as well as creatively cannibalizing--electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Designed for practioners and students of electronic art, it provides a guided tour through the world of electronics, encouraging artists to get to know the inner workings of basic electronic devices so they can creatively use them for their own ends. Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while instructing the student in basic electronic principles, always from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry.
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Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
0415975921
ISBN-13
9780415975926
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50342328
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Handmade Electronic Music : the Art of Hardware Hacking
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
7.1in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tk9965.C59 2006
Reviews
"Here we have, at last, an electronics book that caters to people who have ideas first, and electronics second...Collins offers a splendidly integrative look into the history of "sound art," basic electronics, and junk revisioning." --Make Magazine "Nicolas Collins wants to tear apart your CD player..." --Wired Magazine "...a brilliant, hands-on guide to electronic music making....[Collins] never ceases to amaze me with his latest bit of music or techno-logical innovation." --TapeOp Magazine, "Here we have, at last, an electronics book that caters to people who have ideas first, and electronics second…Collins offers a splendidly integrative look into the history of "sound art," basic electronics, and junk revisioning." --Make Magazine "Nicolas Collins wants to tear apart your CD player..." --Wired Magazine "...a brilliant, hands-on guide to electronic music making....[Collins] never ceases to amaze me with his latest bit of music or techno-logical innovation." --TapeOp Magazine
Illustrated by
Lonergan, Simon
Table of Content
Table of Contents:Part I: StartingAcknowledgementsForward by David BehrmanIntroductionChapter 1: Getting StartedTools and materials needed.Chapter 2: The Seven Basic Rules of HackingGeneral advice.Part II: ListeningChapter 3: Circuit SniffingUsing radios and coils to eavesdrop on hidden electromagnetic music.Sidebar #1: Mortal CoilsChapter 4: In/OutSpeaker as microphone, microphone as speaker - the symmetry of it all.Chapter 5: The Celebrated Jumping Speaker of Bowers CountyTwitching loudspeakers with batteries.Chapter 6: How to SolderAn essential skill.Chapter 7: How to Make a Contact MikeUsing piezo disks to pick up tiny sounds.Sidebar #2: John Cage - The Father of InventionSidebar #3: Piezo MusicChapter 8: Turn You Tiny Wall Into a SpeakerResonating objects with piezo disks, transformers and motors.Sidebar #4: David Tudor and RainforestSidebar #5: DriversChapter 9: Tape HeadsPlaying credit cards with hand-held tape heads.Sidebar #6: TapeChapter 10: A Simple Air MikeCheap condenser mike elements make great microphones.Part III: TouchingChapter 11: Laying of HandsTransforming a portable radio into a synthesizer by making your skin part of the circuit.Sidebar #7: The Crackle BoxChapter 12: Tickle the ClockFinding the clock circuit in toys.Chapter 13: Hack the ClockChanging the clock speed for cool new noises.Sidebar #8: Composing Inside ElectronicsChapter 14: Ohm's Law for DummiesHow to understand resistors.Chapter 15: Beyond the PotPhotocells, pressure pads, and other ways to control and play your toy.Sidebar #9: Circuit BendingChapter 16: SwitchesHow to understand different switches, and even make your own.Chapter 17: Jack, Batt & PackFinishing touches: powering and packaging your hacked toy.Part IV: BuildingChapter 18: World's Simplest OscillatorSix oscillators on a 20-cent chip, guaranteed to work.Chapter 19: From Breadboard to Circuit BoardHow to solder up your first homemade circuit.Chapter 20: More OscillatorsOscillators that modulate each other.Chapter 21: Even More OscillatorsDividers, feedback loops and instability; using oscillators as clocks for toys.Chapter 22: On/OffGating, ducking, tremolo and panning.Chapter 23: Amplification and DistortionA simple circuit that goes from clean preamp to total distortion.Chapter 24: Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort ofModulating other audio sources with your oscillators..Part V: LookingChapter 25: Video Music/Music VideoTranslating video signals into sound, hacking cheap camera circuits, and extracting sounds from remote controls.Chapter 26: LCD ArtMaking animated modern daguerreotypes and alternative video projectors.Sidebar #10: Visual MusicPart VI: FinishingChapter 27: Mixers, Matrices and ProcessingVery simple, very cheap, very clean mixers, and ways of configuring lots of circuits.Chapter 28: A Little Power AmplifierA cheap & simple amplifier.Chapter 29: Analog to Digital Conversion, ReallyConnecting sensors to computers using game controllers.Sidebar #11: The LuthiersChapter 30: Power SuppliesIf you must, here's how to plug into the wall with minimal risk.AppendicesAppendix 1: ResourcesWhere to find information and materials.Appendix 2: References and NotesAppendix 3: InventoryWhat you need to do the projects in this book.Appendix 4: The Rules of Hacking and the Laws of the Avant GardeA recapitulation.Appendix 5: Notes for the audio CDApppendix 6: Illustration Credits
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
General, Instruction & Study / Techniques, Genres & Styles / Electronic, Electronics / General
Lccn
2005-030693
Dewey Decimal
786.7
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Music
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