October is Chicago Artists Month, and I have been named as one of the featured artists by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, which is why you may have seen my face around town, plastered on billboards downtown and printed in publications.  I’m very honored to have been chosen, and I hope my event this month proves [...]

I’ve got the SN76477-based drum machine up and running, and it sounds pretty sweet:

SN76477-based drum machine prototype from Michael Una on Vimeo.
I need to work on the switching logic for the different sounds, and add in a flip-flop to increase my steps from 8 to 16. But it’s very close to being done, in [...]

There’s an article in Chicago’s NewCity this week called Breakout Artists 2009: Chicago’s next generation of image makers. And who is one of these breakout artists? Moi. Does it matter that I’m not much of an image maker? Not in the slightest.
Head on over to their site to check out the story, [...]

I’ve been working on my sequencer-synth a bit more.  In fact, I’m stopping development of this little box to start over again from scratch, but I wanted to document it first.  So here’s my first stab at a sequence-driven synthesizer:
Seq-it prototype v2 from Michael Una on Vimeo.