Handmade Digital Music: The Artwork of {Hardware} Hacking

Handmade Digital Music: The Artwork of {Hardware} Hacking supplies a long-needed, sensible, and interesting introduction to the craft of creating – in addition to creatively cannibalizing – digital circuits for inventive functions. With a way of journey and no prior data, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into units similar to radios and toys to find a brand new sonic world. At a time when computer systems dominate music manufacturing, this ebook gives a uncommon glimpse into the core know-how of early stay digital music, in addition to more moderen developments by the hands of rising artists. Along with recommendation on hacking discovered electronics, the reader learns easy methods to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion packing containers, and strange sign processors cheaply and rapidly.

This revised and expanded second version is extensively illustrated and features a DVD that includes eighty-seven video clips and twenty audio tracks by over 100 hackers, benders, musicians, artists, and inventors from around the globe, in addition to 13 video tutorials demonstrating initiatives within the ebook. Additional enhancements embrace extra initiatives, images, diagrams, and illustrations.