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New Website
02 March 2015 · Open this post on its own
2014 nothing happened... Finally I am back, I have been occupied for a while. I decided to move the website away from wordpress as I was geting sick of the constant updates and moved to somthing a little bit more geeky. I am now using Jekyll a script that generates the website offline using markdown as the templating system. I hope to make the website a little cleaner and more about content. Thigs have advanced a lot since I last updated, I now have a fully working 3d printer (Prusa i2) and a CNC router (shapeoko 2) both aready not the latest model! This means I have much more capability to produce one off objects ( read synthesizer panels! ). Clacktronics is still homeless but by the end of the year (2015) I hope to have a fully functional shed workshop!
I hope to release 2 new pedals within the next few months. One is the Wasp Drive MKII and the other is called the ArDuinA I leave it upto you to decide what that is!
IRCAM
02 March 2015 · Open this post on its own
As part of a research project involving Boulez's Anthèmes II I managed to visit IRCAM in Paris last week and got to see how they put together the piece. It is entirely in Max/MSP with a few ancillary programs. IRCAM is suprisingly minimal, just clear offices and studios with very little equipment in, it seems as if they mainly focus on software based music, which makes sense when you are purely thinking about musical concepts rather than the aesthetic design of instruments.
See the Demo of this system in the youtube video. I managed to listen to it with 6 speakers and it sounds very different!
This will be played at the Paris Opera in December. See listing here (wayback mirror)
Tottenham to Walthamstow
07 May 2013 · Open this post on its own
After 3 years in Tottenham Hale, I have now moved across the reservoirs to Walthamstow where I can now build a proper Workshop in a shed! Here is my old door sign that I made from PCB material.
I have been working for the last 3 years in a live/work space in Tottenham, which was great but the division of home and work space can be challenging without walls.My hope is that clacktronics can now be in a workshop of its own.
Cri "baby" Call
16 February 2013 · Open this post on its own
I found this at work, at first it looked like some kind of intercom but then I realised it is called a "Cri Call". It is an old valve based baby monitor! What you do is screw the small box onto the wall in the babys room then trail a wire along your hallway to your living room to monitor the baby. Next test, put a guitar into it! it will definitely make a neat (tube!) practice amp.
The 3D printed bandwagon
09 January 2013 · Open this post on its own
Yes, I have also been swept up in the hype, after a few years of looking at them and wishing I could afford to make one I took the plunge as I worked out it could easily be done for around £350. It is mainly made from kit parts as it was almost the same price as sourcing the parts myself. I have some ideas for miniature leslie speakers and other such electro-mechanical gimmicks. watch this space!
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