werner dafeldecker, chrisian fennesz, martin siewert, burkhard stangl (supergroup!!) - phonographics 1-5

The feedback resonator project is on pause right now while I prepare for a local pride event. The next step in that project is probably going to be rewiring the pickup connections, and I might try ordering my first PCB with the help of J, who already made a starter board in...

the starlings are hanging out around here again

claire rousay & gretchen korsmo - quilted lament

constructing the house, inviting people into it having cooked a meal to share

small birds acting tough

wide guy

jliat - 3.mp3

francisco lopez - untitled #104 (the one made from death metal records)

b q h a 7

a genre is an echo of a community ritual

Was feeling kind of blue, then a bird pooped on me

david tolley and ren walters - remix 1

I've damaged my laptop speakers somewhat, I think. They sound really nice with simple tones when pushed to the limit.

Well, dang. I saw there was a new stable version of cython and decided to upgrade this morning on a lark. I went through some of the usual dependency hell, but giving pip the --no-build-isolation flag, which reuses the current virtualenv instead of creating a throwaway one ...

sleep

the place nobody goes was the right amount of crowded tonight, I hadn't been there in a year

Jandek - Worthless Recluse

Very discouraging middle-of-the-night trial run of the feedback resonator, which barely feeds back, and rattles thinly and badly when it should resonate... it may help to shorten up the connections to the amp and maybe just remove the attenuators... they could be patched in...

dog bark car honk

Still so much wiring to do, but the sideplate for the electronics sidecar is nearly done. The big red switches connect to the stereo jacks next to them, and the attenuation knobs on the sidecar for toggle muting the pickups. The glowing green LED is connected to the power supply, this breakout on the side has a USB connector for 5v power -- which will power the microcontroller awkwardly by snaking a cable through the little hole in the bottom of the plate -- and a barrel connector for charging. The LED is always on, I'm not sure why? There's another set of status LEDs on the supply itself, and the power gets cut on and off through the key switch on the top.

mauricio kagel's hallelujah (much screaming and wailing and moaning) and dieter schnebel's für stimmen (...missa est) (hissing and yelping and murmering) ... sorry neighbors

The cycfi pickups I'm using have nice headers on them, but the power hookups are weirdly at a 2mm spacing. I'm trying to avoid soldering directly to them (though I've already done so with one of them) so it'll be easier to reuse them in different projects, but I don't have ...

Pickup wiring...

Some rain families:

• Bowed strings
• Chromatic free reeds
• Feedback resonators
• Tubular blown resonators

(Figuring through forces...)

Maybe a project for this summer should be to organize my record collection again, the shelves and the files. I can never seem to find anything. (Serendipity is nice, but I also often reach for something just because I know where to find it!)

MIMEO & john tilbury - the hands of caravaggio

So much wiring to do! This is a sidecar for the feedback resonator guitar thing which holds the battery and power supply, the amplifier, and an esp32 to send the buttons and switches and etc over wifi. One of the knobs (in blue) is the amplifier gain, and the four grey ones...

jandek - ready for the house

aerosol - all that is solid melts into air