Stu's Blog
Wed, 25 Jun 2008
Finally found some time to blog about my trip to the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) conference in Genoa, Italy a couple of weeks back. The conference was organised and hosted this year by Casa Paganini - InfoMus Lab, DIST, Università degli Studi di Genova, [...]
Thu, 12 Jun 2008
Loud Objects at Evolution 2008
The Sullivan Room, Leeds Town Hall
24th May 2008
http://www.lumen.org.uk/evolution/loudobjects.php
Thu, 22 May 2008
Amsterdam based electronic music institute Steim (studio for electro-instrumental music) is in danger of losing it’s funding from the Dutch government.
“Things are not well at STEIM. We are in the danger of losing our structural funding from the government, based on a review from the advisor board which called us ‘closed and only appealing to [...]
Sat, 26 Apr 2008
I have created a circuit bending survey using Google Docs cool new forms feature.
The purpose of this survey is to accertain some demographics about the sort of people who circuit bend, there are some general questions about your bending activities and musical tastes and more specific ones about things you’ve bent. I hope to [...]
Sat, 19 Apr 2008
This week saw 2 specially commissioned performances by Japanese noise artist Merzbow (Masami Akita) with the Dirty Electronics Ensemble led by De Montfort University’s own noise medic Dr John Richards (kREEPA).
The project began a few weeks ago with a 2 day workshop with John to build a DIY electronic instrument, the Sudophone or Merztin, which [...]
Fri, 11 Apr 2008
1st technical test of the Dirty Electronics Ensemble playing their Sudophones at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Sat, 29 Mar 2008
A short video of the modular test mentioned in the previous blog, shot on my mobile phone so the audio quality is not great but you get the idea.
Thu, 27 Mar 2008
This is the modular synth in the Bathysphere studio which I’ve just finished re-housing into 4 smaller units, so as to make it a bit more portable. We bought this baby 18 months back on ebay and It came in one big heavy cabinet, 66 Doepfer and Analogue Solutions modules, including 9 oscillators, 4 [...]
Sat, 22 Mar 2008
This is the Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre or BEAST, a comprehensive and unique sound diffusion system specifically designed for the performance of electro-acoustic music. The BEAST system uses up to thirty channels of loudspeakers, separately amplified and arranged in pairs, each pair having characteristics which make them appropriate for a particular position [...]
Wed, 19 Mar 2008
The cases for the initial run of 5 Dub Sirens I’m building are almost complete, my friend Will at Wernick Musical Instruments is building them to my specification. They are made from beech wood with aluminium base plates and will have a translucent polycarbonate front panel. I will be posting a demo video [...]