Interactive designer/artist Grant Bussinger took some cameraphone footage of my set last night:

If you watch to the end, you’ll see me kick the power cord for the whole table and temporarily knock out the audio.

This is a great audiovisual sculpture by Jesse Stiles, Chris Harvey and Olivia Robinson:

The Harmonic Center of the Universe from Jesse Stiles on Vimeo.
Looks like a microcontroller doing the heavy lifting for the light sequences, and a synchronized audio piece. There’s a lot of handmade effort in there.
Found via Saturn Never Sleeps.

It occurs to me that I neglected to post this a while back.
A bigger and better version of Beep-it is available thru Transistor in Chicago and will be in my online store soon(ish). This one features a handsome laser-cut bamboo case and a 2nd oscillator for LFO modulation.
Here’s what it looks like in the [...]

As the date of my performance at the MCA draws near and my set matures, I thought I’d share a brief preview of some of the new devices I’ll be using during the show.
First, I got some time to circuit-bend a Bliptronic 5000. There’s a pitch bend control courtesy of the Getlofi Precision Oscillator [...]

Most Saturdays from noon-3pm you can find me at Lizard’s Liquid Lounge, 3058 W. Irving Park Rd. in Chicago.  That’s the meeting point for an open, informal group of folks who like to tinker with music and electronics, called the eSymposium, which is the brainchild of Patrick McCarthy of Roth Mobot.
Lately, we’ve been setting up [...]

I have been asked by LAMPO to perform at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago later this month, as part of their Magical Musical Showcase series. I’m pretty excited about it, and I hope you can make it- I’ve been creating some new instruments and experimenting with drum-playing robots, so this show should be [...]

Sometimes my day job calls on me to illustrate abstract concepts. Today’s challenge: “A Brief With Gestures.” First is my initial sketch, and second is what it ended up becoming. I need a Wacom tablet.

In 2010, I aim to accomplish the following things:
1. Get smarter about money and finance. Last year I started a small business project to make and sell my Beep-its and other things, and they sold well but I was terrible at keeping track of in/outflow of funds. Thus, I have no metrics [...]