Monthly Archives: November 2008

O! Computadors!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Easter has come early ’round these parts – a brand new chocolate egg of audio treats for you – from me. Well actually, us this time: Mr Speaker has joined forces with the magical man of musical mgoodness – Tom Birchnell – to form Computadors. Our first mission, which we chose to accept, was to [...]

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Wave rooting in Newcastle

Monday, November 10, 2008

This will be a post of three parts. You should probably go straight to Part Three – as this has the juicy details, and a fairly brilliant song I composed. Part one and two are mostly content-free, self-oriented pieces that are sure to be of interest to few (though, with the high demand for fairly [...]

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Wave rooting, Part II: Morning of terror

Monday, November 10, 2008

It seems like less of a good idea now. It’s 8.30am in a tent on a football oval, 6km from Dorkbot Central. I sport a chipper hangover, compounded by a brawny and ominous (though, thankfully fairly rain-free) thunderstorm. Emerging from the tent, I spy my mode-of-transport with a small slice of contempt. I quite like [...]

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Wave rooting, Part III: WävRüta

Monday, November 10, 2008

After such an epic journey, it was going to have to be a pretty impressive 8bit, lo-fi, noisy, multi-mode digital audio FX unit and signal generator we’d be building. And with such a description, how could it not be? Impressive, that is. It couldn’t not be, that’s the answer to that rhetorical question – and [...]

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