Saturday, 11 April 2015
Friday, 10 April 2015
Homemade synth performances
Photographic artifacts from performances at the Cosmic Pint Glass and Scratch Platform 4
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Resonance audio tour + Launch performance @ the Sainsburys Center Norwich
Heres the piece I made for the audio tour and an interview.
Young Associates presents: Resonance from Thomas Wall on Vimeo.
Wednesday, 25 June 2014
Performance at RISE summer solstice festival at the Minories Colchester
Wonderful long day at RISE festival at the Minories Colchester.
Solstice Drone performance at the Minories Colchester from michael page on Vimeo.
Solstice Drone performance at the Minories Colchester from michael page on Vimeo.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Monday, 17 June 2013
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Friday, 17 May 2013
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Monday, 19 November 2012
recent dalliances
Recording of my delay unit with ableton augmentation:
Folded paper looping animation experiment...
fold loop system 2 from michael page on Vimeo.
Folded paper looping animation experiment...
fold loop system 2 from michael page on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
sad hing-hon franken-glock :-(
sadly its not currently working very well :-(
contacts from glock to corresponding keyboard note
hing-hon guts
beaters with ground contact and little mics close up
special beaters
Ive been building a hing hon into a glockenspeil so when you strike the bars with the beaters it plays the corresponding note on the keyboard, so you get sonorous glock-sound with simulanious squarewave grunt. Sexy. This is SEEMINGLY easily done as all the keys go to ground so the ends of the beaters just need grounding contacts to trigger. Or so I thought...
It turns out though that you have to have the beater in contact with the bar for a fractionally longer period of time than an ordinary bar strike to get it to trigger with any regularity. This is no good as then that dampens the bar and stops it from ringing. I was thinking this is possibly failing because the keyboard is probably scanning all the notes in turn to see if one is being triggered and if it doesnt happen that that corresponds with when the beater strike is it doesnt register.
Correct?
A sort of fix i thought of was to make keys to press that strike the underside of the bars (like some childrens toy glock things you may have seen) then have the contacts on the keys, special gloves to connect finger presses to ground might be needed but from playing around with the circuit just touching key contacts with skin seems to trigger them so silly gloves might not be necessary.
contacts from glock to corresponding keyboard note
hing-hon guts
beaters with ground contact and little mics close up
special beaters
Ive been building a hing hon into a glockenspeil so when you strike the bars with the beaters it plays the corresponding note on the keyboard, so you get sonorous glock-sound with simulanious squarewave grunt. Sexy. This is SEEMINGLY easily done as all the keys go to ground so the ends of the beaters just need grounding contacts to trigger. Or so I thought...
It turns out though that you have to have the beater in contact with the bar for a fractionally longer period of time than an ordinary bar strike to get it to trigger with any regularity. This is no good as then that dampens the bar and stops it from ringing. I was thinking this is possibly failing because the keyboard is probably scanning all the notes in turn to see if one is being triggered and if it doesnt happen that that corresponds with when the beater strike is it doesnt register.
Correct?
A sort of fix i thought of was to make keys to press that strike the underside of the bars (like some childrens toy glock things you may have seen) then have the contacts on the keys, special gloves to connect finger presses to ground might be needed but from playing around with the circuit just touching key contacts with skin seems to trigger them so silly gloves might not be necessary.
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