Mechanosensation

"The one thing that can save most of our problems is dancing"

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:14:01 +1000

“The one thing that can save most of our problems is dancing”

- James Brown

Yay sayer

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:03:04 +1000

Yay sayer

Horray!

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:41:54 +1000

Horray!

Could not help but move the first time I heard this.You’ll...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:19:01 +1100

Could not help but move the first time I heard this.
You’ll hopefully have the same issue.

BRAND NEW FEATURECAST MIX! PLEASE SHARE, BLOG, POST AND SPREAD THE LOVE.

THANKS : )

1) Featurecast - Hands In The Air Intro
2) Second Hand Audio feat Dizzy Dustin - I Got It Like That (Featurecast Remix)
3) Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles (Featurecast Remix)
4) McMash Clan - Swing Break
5) Featurecast - Finger Lickin
6) Opiuo - Fizzle Tickler (Featurecast Edit)
7) The Correspondents - Well Measured Vise (Featurecast Remix)
8) Featurecast - Funkadelic
9) Koan Sound - Funk Blaster (Featurecast Edit)
10) Pyramyth - Rubber Kangaroo (Featurecast Edit)
11) World Class Art Thieves - Blow Your Mind (Featurecast Remix)
12) Featurecast - Shang a-Lang (Check It)
13) Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Featurecast Edit)
14) Excision & Datsik - Deviance (Dirtyphonics Remix) - Featurecast Edit
15) Earth Wind and Fire - Shinning Star (Featurecast Remix)
16) Rob Dougan Vs Habstrakt - Get Clubbed (Featurecast Mash)
17) Dr Dre - California Love (Psymbionic Remix) Featurecast Edit
18) Dj Medhi - Signatune (Featurecast Remix)
19) Dodge and Fuski - Turn It Up (Featurecast Edit)
20) Mord Fustang - Champloo
21) Electric Soulside Vs Al Naafiysh - Predator Clan (Featurecast Mash)
22) Bella - Shook Up
23) Bassnecter - Freestyle
24) Skrillex - Burn Dem (Featurecast’s Jam Rock Edit)
25) A-Trak & Dillon Francis - Money Makin’ (Oliver Twizt Trap Remix)
26) Major Lazer Vs Rusko - Free Love Stylin (Featurecast Mash)
27) Smooth - Blinded By The Light
28) Ayah Marar Vs DJ Fresh - Mind Controller (Featurecast Edit)
29) Netsky - Puppy

I instantly gravitated toward Nick Huggins on the day of Art Not...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:29:00 +1100

I instantly gravitated toward Nick Huggins on the day of Art Not Apart as he too had a sonic exhibition for the festival, his more on performance based than my installation piece Phonosphere.

We had a chat about our respective projects and it became clear we both had a passion for listening, recording and all things sound related. Nick explained the unrecognizable part of his setup which was both and conceptualized and produced by himself which I found inspiring and thought provoking.

It was the six knobs on top of the mixer that caught my eye. They control the pitch of six cassette players that are feeding 6 passive and discrete speakers on the steps in the photo. He had a handful of cassettes with different sounds and loops on them, all being feed to the discrete speakers, all with a pitch control you could speed up or slow down. Fantastic. Did I mention their power was daisy chained?

Here’s a little info about Nick from two bright lakes which is the record label that released his two albums. Enjoy.

Nick Huggins is a guy who mucks around with sound for very many hours of the day and night, even when sleeping. He’s produced records for Mick Turner, Khancoban, Oscar + Martin, Seagull, Hazel Brown, Hello Satellites, Otouto, Psuche, Whitley and Kid Sam among others. He is 1/3 of Touch Typist, fond of chocolate and has just released his sophomore album Five Lights.

Nick has created a dedicated website to showcase music, video and words from the Five Lights project, you can visit it here.

Can’t. Stop. Listening.

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:22:25 +1100

Can’t. Stop. Listening.

Location sound on Reddit

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:19:00 +1100

Location sound on Reddit:

Got a question? They’ve probably answered it.

Phonosphere installation at Art Not Apart 2013.

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:48:18 +1100

Phonosphere installation at Art Not Apart 2013.

Recording some underwater action using a pair of JrF...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:53:00 +1100

Recording some underwater action using a pair of JrF Hydrophones

I promised a while back to upload my 5.1 surround field recordings.

It is complete but tumblr has an issue with sound files over 10meg.

Now is a better time than ever to start a soundcloud account I guess.

One take. Recorded with one mic in a living room.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 09:37:48 +1100

One take.

Recorded with one mic in a living room.

Audio Installation. Software.

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:01:50 +1100

So the photographs I posted recently document an installation Tim Duck and I completed in October 2010.

We wanted something interactive that involved sound and we came up with a mix of a classic game along with some trigger pads.

I believe MAX/MSP or SuperCollider would’ve been the best and most flexible choice for the software driving our creation but as our coding skills are not top notch we opted for Ableton Live. It was flexible enough and gave us a starting point.

Our first idea was to reverse engineer a normal PC keyboard to drive Ableton.

I took an old keyboard apart and started playing around with the contacts. We realised that it would still work even with metres of wire extension so that was our first milestone, it will work running metres of cabling.

After a while we began to realise that a keyboard deciphers its commands via a matrix, over 100 input commands on the keyboard are funnelled through the 26 contacts on the little PCB.

I have no background in electronic engineering so we opted for this piece of kit.

http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html

It gives you 56 discrete inputs and simplified things for us.

So that is an overview of what drives the installation, stay tuned and I’ll describe a bit more about the hardware.

An installation Tim Duck and I did a few years ago. More...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:53:38 +1100

An installation Tim Duck and I did a few years ago.

More information tomorrow.

Work or play?

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:55:22 +1100

Work or play?

My 5.1 mix is coming together. Reaper and audacity working...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:53:32 +1100

My 5.1 mix is coming together. Reaper and audacity working together in harmony.

Parliamentary committee location recording kit. Fun fun.

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:50:27 +1100

Parliamentary committee location recording kit. Fun fun.

Little smoke.

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:37:58 +1000

Recorded two interviews for a short documentary about living in Canberra today titled ‘little smoke’.

NFSA

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:21:00 +1000

I went to thee national film and sound archive today and got to see some of the techniques and equipment they use to preserve Australia’s recorded history. It is now I realize I should’ve taken a photo or two. Technology will pass me by I’d I don’t use it.

No loud music while vacuuming your car at a service station....

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:46:10 +1000

No loud music while vacuuming your car at a service station. Them the rules.

Success. AC3 files. 5.1 setup. New and exciting electronic...

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:44:38 +1000

Success. AC3 files. 5.1 setup. New and exciting electronic compositions.

I’ll post a few files soon.

"Everything is happening everywhere all the time at once."

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:02:17 +1000

“Everything is happening everywhere all the time at once.”

- Anonymous