I just bought this book and started reading it. It’s an area I’ve always meant to get a bit more acquainted with, so I’m looking forward to reading this and exploring the field, as it were.
Category: Creative Process
The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
CZ Manual
Getting my CZ101 was great. I didn’t get a manual with it though, so I picked this up on eBay the other day, and it’s awesome.
Something for the molecule
I’ve started making this. It’s a sort of patch sheet for the molecule synth. A way of recording ideas in advance of trying them, or committing stuff that works to paper so you can make it work again. Once it’s finished I’ll post a PDF of it for anyone who wants to use it.
Paper models, small synths and Foldify
I’ve been meaning to cut this out and see what it actually looks like but I haven’t gotten to it as yet. I like the idea of paper model synths, and whilst foldify is an excellent app for general making of paper models it isn’t as good for synths. Really it just needs one or two templates to deal with keyboards and it would be amazing.
I hope the people at Foldify listen up.
Organising molecule
Analogue Sound Generator
MIDI unit
Digital Generator
LFO
With some of the modules in my molecule synth there are multiple inputs but none of them are labelled, so I thought I’d label mine up to make it easier to use. This is actually twice as much fun as I get to use a label machine too.
The only downside is that I can’t get the code for the MIDI module to load. I’m sure it’ll get sorted soon enough though.
A little visual journey from my soft circuit adventure at the Music Hack Ship
Having never done this before it was a real experience. Very different and I certainly learnt something new.
My molecule synth arrived
Flex sensor
Power Module
Speaker
Power
Joystick
The molecule synth
Arduino control
MIDI
Pressure sensor
Synth
LFO
T-Shirt!
It’s here and I can’t wait to get going with all of this.
BeatPad controlling the Shruthi-1
I’ve posted this over at PalmSounds but I really like this and it’s kind of a fun thing to be doing with old and new tech all in one place.
Bare Conductive Cards
I found this stuff at the V&A Digital Design Weekend. It’s great fun to use and the card kit is excellent. For £10 (I think) you get three cards and all the components to make them into little electronic greeting extravaganzas. What more could you want?
The actual conductive ink is sticky stuff and requires a little patience, but it’s worth it for the finished product.
The Portico Quartet Live
This was the most inspiring performance of WOMAD this year. The Portico Quartet were amazing, their ability to improvise and produce intricate cross rhythms was absolutely brilliant.
It was great to see them and it made me rethink what I’m doing musically.
I am Ashley Elsdon 