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Making up a lumiphone (a little video)

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 3, 2015March 1, 2015in Making thingsLeave a comment

Loving Barcodas and finding out about bar codes

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 14, 2015February 14, 2015in Creative Process, MusicLeave a comment

I do like the idea of made from things that don’t normally make music. Hence I like barcodas. The idea of making little snippets of music from bar codes is very appealing. To me anyway. The interesting thing, at least, interesting to me anyway is that different types of bar codes seem to have very different properties. So for instance, using bar codes taken from books, these all sound the same, at least the first few notes do. Bar codes taken from cereal boxes are quite different.

So I had a little idea for a barcodas project that I think I’m going to try out soon.

Making lumiphones …

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 7, 2015February 1, 2015in Making things, Sounds, TechLeave a comment

I realised that I had another lumiphone kit from Technology will save us. So I thought I had to make it up. This one I’ve made exactly to the instructions, and it works perfectly.

Good to get soldering again.

Ok, it’s just a simple noise maker, it doesn’t do a huge amount, but it’s fun, and noisy.