Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking

by Collins; Nicolas

• ISBN13: 9780415996099
• ISBN10: 0415996090
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Accompanying DVD includes 87 video clips and 20 audio tracks by over 100 hackers, benders, etc., as well as 13 tutorials demonstrating projects in the book.

Table of Contents

Foreword to Second Edition

Foreword to First Edition

Acknowledgments

StartingI

Introduction

Getting Started: Tools and Materials Needed

The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking: General Advice

Listening

Circuit Sniffing: Using Radios and Coils to Eavesdrop on Hidden Electromagnetic Music

Sidebar #1: Mortal Coils

In/Out (the Eighth Rule of Hacking): Speaker as Microphone, Microphone as SpeakerG++the Symmetry of it All

The Celebrated Jumping Speaker of Bowers County: Twitching Loudspeakers with Batteries

How to Solder: An Essential Skill

How to Make a Contact Mike: Using Piezo Disks to Pick Up Tiny Sounds

Sidebar #2: John CageG++The Father of Invention

Sidebar #3: Piezo Music

Turn You Tiny Wall Into a Speaker (or How to Make a Piezo Driver): Resonating Objects with Piezo Disks, Transformers, and Motors

Sidebar #4: David Tudor and Rainforest

Sidebar #5: Drivers

Tape Heads: Playing Credit Cards with Hand-Held Tape Heads

Sidebar #6: Tape

A Simple Air Mike: Cheap Condenser Mike Elements Make Great Microphones

Touching

Laying of Hands I (St. VitusG++ Dance): Transforming a Portable Radio into a Synthesizer by Making Your Skin Part of the Circuit

Sidebar #7: The Cracklebox

Tickle the Clock (Laying of Hands II): Finding the Clock Circuit in Toys

Hack the Clock (Learn a New Alphabet): Changing the Clock Speed for Cool New Noises

OhmG++s Law for Dummies: How to Understand Resistors

Sidebar #8: Composing Inside Electronics

Beyond the Pot: Photocells, Pressure Pads, and Other Ways to Control and Play Your Toy

Sidebar #9: Circuit Bending

Switches: How to Understand Different Switches, and Even Make Your Own

Jack, Batt, and Pack: Finishing Touches: Powering and Packaging Your Hacked Toy

Building

WorldG++s Simplest Oscillator: Six Oscillators on a 20-Cent Chip, Guaranteed to Work

From Breadboard to Circuit Board: How to Solder Up Your First Homemade Circuit

More Oscillators: Oscillators That Modulate Each Other

Even More Oscillators: Dividers, Feedback Loops, and Instability

Using Oscillators as Clocks for Toys

On/Off: Gating, Ducking, Tremolo, and Panning

Amplification and Distortion: A Simple Circuit That Goes from Clean Preamp to Total Distortion

Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort Of: Modulating Other Audio Sources with Your Oscillators

Envelope Follower: Noise Gate, Ducker, Keyer, Compressor, Modulating Oscillator

Phase Locked Loops: Pitch Tracking & Transposition, Odd Outputs

Sequencer: Driving PLL Oscillator, Gating Signals

Looking

Video Music/Music Video: Translating Video Signals into Sound, Hacking Cheap Camera Circuits, and Extracting Sounds from Remote Controls

Sidebar #10: Visual Music

LCD Art: Making Animated Modern Daguerreotypes and Alternative Vid

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