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Knightrous
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Found this one linked on Hackaday.


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Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their 10th album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for all the electronic musicians that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's near impossible to mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.

This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.

Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition "for a laugh" and to find out what would come out of such an impossible task.

I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX


http://www.vimeo.com/1109226

This definitely beats the Solenoid Symphony Smile
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I like it Very Happy
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Scary Shocked

- not the track, the fact that I have actually owned all of those bits of hardware over time, and recognise the sound of tape loading programs well !!

Ah, the little ZX81 - popularly known as the doorstop at the time because of its shape and that was about all it was good for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx81
You wouldnt believe how amazing cleverly cheaply that thing was made at the time.. They used the Z-80 processors spare cycle time while executing NOOP instructions to update the video hardware, which is why you get all those funky color bars around the edges while its loading. The 80's version of DMA.

(For those who dont understand the intricacies of microprocessors, thats kind of the electronic equivalent of tying dusting mops to your cats feet so it wipes the floor for you while walking around the house. Processing power was expensive back then !)

The idea of making music with Dot Matrix printers and Drive voice coils has been done too.. (not with funky video like that though)

<creaky voice> I remember a program that played god-save-the-queen on the commodore-64 floppy drive by vibrating the read-write heads at the appropraite frequency - probably not great for the disk alignment, but good for a laugh (I dont think LOL had been invented then). - Seriously
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If you like Printer Music, check out this Gem from the 1995 Melbourne Techno/Rave scene.
http://technomagic-storage.com/temp/01%20-%20Printerex%20-%20TDM.mp3

Ah the sweet sounds of a dot-matrix printer head doing its thing.. Smile

OK, I feel like an old-fart now, I'm going to go spindle-fold-and-mutilate some punch cards or something. Razz
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This was quite a difficult task for all the electronic musicians that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's near impossible to mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.


I agree. I hate hearing the theme from Mission Impossible remixed into 4/4 time because don't understand 5/4. Syncopating it to fit a 4/4 beat doesn't work and any who tries should be shot.

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Have you ever heard "take 5" torn apart and played 4/4 in shopping centres? Drives me frekkin nuts!!! Evil or Very Mad
This is seriously nice... the fact he manages harmonies... cool Smile
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Found a link to an Open Source Mixer via Hackaday. This unit is called the Aurora224, looks pretty sweet.

http://www.vimeo.com/1261486

Would love to give one of these a try!
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Saw this today - totaly making one !
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Hay guys i have this sub>

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=CS2352&CATID=15&keywords=&SPECIAL=&form=CAT&ProdCodeOnly=&Keyword1=&Keyword2=&pageNumber=&priceMin=&priceMax=&SUBCATID=831

The 10 inch.

Id like to build a propper sealed box for it but cant seem to find a calculator i can use to give me the propper size and dimentions.
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Didn't Jaycar sell some speaker design software? I'm sure they used to...

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I think they sell a little hand book on it for $10?
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LOL dont worry i put it in a standard box for now but got almost no bass i dont know why cos i had 230wrms into it at 2ohms stable (the amp i have can go to 2 ohms stable) and bass boost all the way up so stupid me tuned the freq up cos it was on 30hz low pass so i slowly tuned it up and altho bass went up after about 30 seconds at 150hz with a good amount of bass crunch crunch crunch poof i killed the sub lol brand new too Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad

I dont know why i couldent get any bass out of it i never had any problems with the last response sub i had.
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(shameless plug)
Very Happy I have my first release! It's just a small step, but have one track on the Global Hardcore Compilation. It's due to be released on the 16th of Feb. Tracklist is:

01. Dyrodium - Predict This
02. Nuclear Age - Make This Party Jump
03. Soul Murderz ft. The 2nd Compressor - M.W.D.L.
04. DJ Bl00der - Apocalypse
05. Merkurius - Bloodbath City
06. Chlorophyll - In The Land Of The Shadow
07. Syndemic - Safe Distance
08. Necrarch - No Hope In Chaos
09. Bioxeed - Dim Image
10. Tapage - One In Dig
11. Forsaken Is Dead - Untitled (The Dead Walk)
12. Cap - Amniplekks
13. Syndemic - Lost In Coma
14. Bioxeed - Spider Trap MK2

It'll initialy be released electronicaly, and i'll link to where as soon as it's available... A crapload of effort has gone into this... Shocked
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Congrats Angus. Hope it goes well
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Let me know when it hits the torrents Wink
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Lol, good to see you supporting upcoming artists Aaron, though it is pretty much a free release. Laughing Cheers Sean hope it works out!
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