More and more things come up in the DIY area of electronic music that tend to make everything easier for the aspirant electronics experimenter (as noted in another post with the littleBits). Now a really interesting project comes from a collective, called the “machinecollective” . They present a prototype of a modular open source control surface. That means that you can (end of september) order different bare-bones control surfaces. I can already see my next circuit bending project with one of those control surfaces. You don´t have to find the casings, solder wires, fasten potis; everything is ready to be connected.
So having read on several blogs (Trash_Audio) about the Thingamakit, somehow the big brother of the Thingamagoop with some additional features, I have ordered one. As it seems it will take some time before it arrives here at home. But as soon as I got it I´ll inform you about the construction process and if it will work afterwards ^^.
Tom Whitwell of Musicthing just posted a short demo of random patching on vimeo. That thing really got me. I´ll be ordering it as soon as GAS-Budget´s on level again:
Yep, here is the video to our outstanding live-jam (10 minutes of preparation) with the wonderful guys: rechner7 and haesslich on their modulars and EH Memory Man with Hazari (on my must-have list). I was using my brand-new A-100 with my beloved EMX-1 and some effects: Alesis Bitrman and Faze, EH Big Muff Pi and Boss OC-3. I´m also using the great Alesis Metavox for the cool voice bleep pattern thingy you hear when I´m using the microphone.