i’m playing a couple of live sets coming up:

april 19 in vancouver
“http://www.signalandnoise.ca/”:http://www.signalandnoise.ca/

and may 1 in minneapolis
“http://www.bentfestival.org/#Minneapolis”:http://www.bentfestival.org/#Minneapolis

modulated zips

here’s an improvised video,
made live,
with homemade electronics,
namely, 2 sound-generator/distorter-manglers,
an envelope-controlled state-variable-filter,
and a video-synthesizer… some audio mixers and lots of patch-cables also

!http://www.vhsuhf.com/video/modzip.jpg!:http://www.vhsuhf.com/video/modzip.mov
“http://www.vhsuhf.com/video/modzip.mov”:http://www.vhsuhf.com/video/modzip.mov
480x360px
16:32min
125MB

in other related news,
the forum about,
building video-synthesizers,
which once lived here,
is back online:
“http://vidisynth.mediumrecords.com/forum/”:http://vidisynth.mediumrecords.com/forum/

blog comments are off because of spam

!http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v160/17/49/1035049561/n1035049561_14949_9545.jpg!:http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v160/17/49/1035049561/n1035049561_14949_9545.jpg

that’s all….

….oh, and it really seems like this year will be a new year.

Glen Gould: The Latecomers

My favourite example the “Contrapunctal Radio” style, this audio-piece about `Outport Newfoundland` from 1969 was actually the first CBC radio broadcast over their new stereo-network:

“http://vhsuhf.com/gould/The_Latecomers.mp3”:http://vhsuhf.com/gould/The_Latecomers.mp3

sequel to the idea of north, poetic test-pattern..
the fidelity would seem to encourage close, careful listening, perhaps with headphones, in an uniterupted space of time; as one should suppose music recordings would.

!http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Cooks_Karte_von_Neufundland.jpg/615px-Cooks_Karte_von_Neufundland.jpg!:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Cooks_Karte_von_Neufundland.jpg

FuQQface

!http://www.mediumrecords.com/hacks/fuqqface/ff01-tb.jpg!:http://www.mediumrecords.com/hacks/fuqqface/fuqqface.html

scavenged volume pedal + bent fuzzface schematic

h2. “project page>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/hacks/fuqqface/fuqqface.html
“+”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/hacks/fuqqface/fuqqface.html
“audio / video documentation>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/hacks/fuqqface/fuqqface.html

Chiefmag

h2. so “chiefmag.com”:http://www.chiefmag.com did a “profile/interview”:http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/5/profiles/Brian-McKenna/ with/on-the-subject-of my hack related projectiles.

edit: chiefmag has since gone off the air

photo: Seamus Cater