22 posts tagged with "gamelan"

 

Up to something a bit different today: electronics! Yum. I'm building a simple op-amp virtual earth mixer, which I'm going to use to combine the signal from seven cheapo tie-pin mics, one for each pair of keys. A few false starts today, bit rusty on this, but now have a simple circuit running from a 9v battery, which is producing really a very good sound indeed from a £3 mic. Off to buy six more of them, then…

Mags and I were enjoying a pleasant evening walk in Maxwell Park, when she had a lucky find: a pound coin sitting on the grass beside a metal park bench. We had some fun sitting in the sun and improvising with the sound of the bench and the coin, which I recorded on my new HTC Wildfire S Android phone. I made the track in Logic using nothing but those sounds: fairly minimal effects, just some pitch shifting and fake stereo. Sort of an urban gamelan thing…