FLUXLIST: disinfo.con
Hi all, For anyone living in or near New York, this may interest you. cheers, Sol. --- http://con2000.disinfo.com/ Disinfo.Con 2000 is your chance to tap into to the subculture's subconscious with over two thousand like-minded spectators and guest speakers at the spacious Hammerstein Ballroom in midtown Manhattan. Disinfo.Con 2000 kicks off on Saturday February 19, 2000 at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street off of 8th Avenue in New York City. Doors open 10 am, Program starts 11 am and finishes 11 pm. What is it? The Disinfo.Con will be the first event of its type in New York since the legendary Nova Convention, honoring author William Burroughs, in 1979. Featuring a line-up of speakers drawing from the best of the underground media, new science and far fringes of the art scene, the Disinfo.Con will turn the majestic Hammerstein Ballroom into an 11 hour technicolor dream house of revolutionary thought, visionary art and lysergic lectures.
FLUXLIST: Oddities...
they have stuff on the ppl who make gear and musikits rather cool site http://www.oddmusic.com __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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>http://www.oddmusic.com This is a great site, thanks for passing on the link. Some of the stranger instruments remind me of Harry Partch's approach to music and the many instruments he built to explore unusual timbres of his own choosing. I have only ever built one instrument(of my own design) and due to it's largish size(relative to the small size of my house) and the fact that I was unlikely to ever play it again I had to dump it :-( If anyone else on the list has ever built their own instruments I'd like to hear about it. cheers, Sol.
FLUXLIST: C64!
http://www.fatal-design.com/ccs64/ - Emu http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/9531/ - ROMs and Musik!!! Does anyone know where to get gameboy EMUs and ROMs for shit like the gameboy soundtrack maker!? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: FLUXLIST: C64!
>Does anyone know where to get gameboy EMUs and ROMs for shit like the gameboy soundtrack maker!?< http://hiwaay.net/~jfrohwei/gameboy/ is the major site for all things gameboy. It's more of a homebrew developers site but you'll find links there to most of what you want. There're links to C compilers for the gameboy so you can code your own roms if you want to do custom sound stuff. I'm not aware of a specific gameboy soundtrack maker, do you mean Nanoloop? For emulators there's also http://members.tripod.com/sirrobertrpg/emu.htm >From what I've seen some emulators do not emulate sound properly so you may have to try a few. I think Alec Empire produced a whole album with his gameboy about a year ago but I've not listened to it yet. Anyone heard it? cheers, Sol.
FLUXLIST: musical oddities (not really)
>>http://www.oddmusic.com >I have only ever built one instrument(of my own design) and due to it's >largish size(relative to the small size of my house) and the fact that I was >unlikely to ever play it again I had to dump it :-( > >If anyone else on the list has ever built their own instruments I'd like to >hear about it. i've not really ever built anything completely of my own design...but, i have taken some things and altered them to my liking...mostly just children's toys, etc. there are some great instruments out there designed with children in mind (of all ages) that can be found relatively cheap. some of my favorites are the accordian i recently received as a birthday gift...it's very small, very simple, but with an incredible sound...i have no reason to do any altering to something like that. however, i do have a guitar that i found for less than 5 dollars...it's designed with a kind of electronic keyboard up the neck...i have it torn apart and was working on re-organizing the order of the keys so that they would fall into a kind of self-controlled scale rather than their more traditional arrangement. i also have some voice-altering toys and anything with pre-recorded beats/riffs can be a lot of fun...especially if fitted with almost dead batteries. actually, the guitar that i just mentioned also came with a nice head-mount mic that seems to have some bizarre filtering capabilities (most likely unintentionally and more due to its poor quality). another great device i've found to use as a filter is an old set of fisher price skytalker walkie-talkies...they can add a nice gritty quality to anything, and if you play and record music through them, it can add a kind of vintage/hissy/lo-fidelity quality to it...like old radio. they're also great for creating silly feedback/screeches... with a little more time and effort, it'd actually be quite simple to just go in and mount 1/4" in/out jacks to most of this stuff, making it even easier to play through real recording/mixing equipment. another one of my favorite toys is an old record player i acquired...i routed the wires to the motor so that i could reverse the polarity and have it spin either forward or reverse...they do make high line players with options like this, but mine cost me about 2 dollars total as compared to at least 500. like i said...for me, it's more about finding cheap things and making them more fun or just taking advantage of their already quirky qualities... on this note (so to speak), does anyone know where i might be able to find a cheap tone generator, or possibly something that creates random noise for testing phone equipment, etc...if anything like that even exists? ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] . AIM: BODYHATER . icq: 7601958 * how small a thought it takes to fill a whole life!
FLUXLIST: Kansas City
I'm going to be moving to Kansas City in the next three weeks, anybody on the list from there, or can advise on what to do, what to see etc etc? Thanks, Alex __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: FLUXLIST: musical oddities (not really)
You can get some very interesting sounds by plugging a cheap mic into a guitar amp, turning on the distortion, then running a cord from the external speaker jack on the guitar amp to the mic input on a stereo that has any sort of karaoke options. Not sure if other equipment will get the same results, but i used a cheap radio shack mic, fender champion 110 75 watt amp, and an aiwa stereo system. You can also get some interesting and very expressive sounds by tieing the ends of guitar strings to some sort of solid object and playing it thusly. There is guy here in baltimore named Niel Feather who makes some really amazing instruments. He has this one that looks sort of like an electric mandolin connected to an excersize bike. It's amazing. There was actually an experimental instruments a couple days ago at the redroom (www.redroom.org) that i would have loved to go to if i weren't moving in to my dorm. Oh well. > on this note (so to speak), does anyone know where i might be able to find > a cheap tone generator, or possibly something that creates random noise for > testing phone equipment, etc...if anything like that even exists? One way to generate tones is to download some sort of wave editing software (i use cool edit pro, i'm sure you could find it for free on an ftp search) and zoom in as close as possible and loop it. You can change the tone by making the section that you're looping larger and smaller. Programs like that also have lots of interesting filters as well. - nick www.futard.com
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> If anyone else on the list has ever built their own > instruments I'd like to > hear about it. In my band Stale Urine I had/have the percussionist job, and mostly out of necessity I would have to scrounge up new instruments any time the band put on a show. Mostly this was bottles, wastebaskets, pieces of scrap metal, pots and pans, etc. I fashioned maracas out of beer bottles filled with Grape-Nuts once. One of my favorite pieces of scrap metal was a muffler assembly from a car; you could get a lot of different sounds out of that. Some of the other guys in the band created the "Zombie Guitar" by affixing a metal plate to the pickups that were left on an electric guitar we had sawed in half. That was pretty fun because if you had something that would vibrate correctly on it, you could shout into it and your voice would come out really strangely distorted. Adam
FLUXLIST: flux paper events
i looked at george maciunas' 'flux paper events' today. very interesting. anyone checked it out? HSOJ
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i use found objects including teacups and saucers, mixing bowls, steel rods, wrist grip exercisers and so on for performance art/experimental music. a great way to alter string instruments is with the use of things in-between or on the strings, similar to cage piano preparations. HSOJ
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what's cage piano? jana On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:59:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i use found objects including teacups and saucers, mixing bowls, steel > rods, wrist grip exercisers and so on for performance art/experimental > music. a great way to alter string instruments is with the use of things > in-between or on the strings, similar to cage piano preparations. > > > HSOJ Those who understand, belong to a family, and once you don't understand, you are a stranger. But those who don't understand, belong to a family, so once you understand, you are a stranger. ___ Get 100% FREE Internet Access powered by Excite Visit http://freeworld.excite.com
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> >what's cage piano? try this link: http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/silence/ and run a search under "prepared piano" That should give you plenty to start with. Richard Joly
Re: FLUXLIST: Kansas City
>I'm going to be moving to Kansas City in the next three weeks, anybody on >the list from there, or can advise on what to do, what to see etc etc? Check the Black Kansas Pink Girls Blue.
