Handmade Digital Music

Handmade Digital Music: The Artwork of {Hardware} Hacking offers a long-needed, sensible, and interesting introduction to the craft of constructing―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. Additionally, you will learn to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion packing containers, mixers, and strange sign processors cheaply and shortly. At a time when computer systems dominate music manufacturing, this e book gives a uncommon glimpse into the core expertise of early dwell digital music, in addition to more moderen developments by the hands of rising artists.

This revised and expanded third version has been up to date all through to mirror latest developments in expertise and DIY approaches. New to this version are chapters contributed by a various group of practitioners, addressing the newest developments in expertise and artistic developments, in addition to an intensive companion web site that gives media examples, tutorials, and additional studying. This version options:

• Over 50 new hands-on tasks.
• New chapters and options on subjects together with smooth circuitry, video hacking, neural networks, radio transmitters, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, information hacking, printing your individual circuit boards, and the worldwide DIY group
• A brand new companion web site at www.HandmadeElectronicMusic.com, containing video tutorials, video clips, audio tracks, useful resource recordsdata, and extra chapters with deeper dives into technical ideas and {hardware} hacking scenes around the globe

With a hands-on, experimental spirit, Nicolas Collins demystifies the method of crafting your individual devices and permits musicians, composers, artists, and anybody thinking about music expertise to attract on the inventive potential of {hardware} hacking.