Re: [microsound] Questions about raw data processingS

[ph_L th0m50n <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would *die* to hear some recordings...
 

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>OK I know its a bit old school but... 
> 
>Several years ago I bought an old Sequential Circuits drum machine
(can't 
>remember the model number). This particular machine has removable
EPROMs 
>so that you can change the way it sounds by installing different EPROM 
>chips. You could buy different kick drums, snares and high hats, on 
>seperate EPROM chips or, if you were a real propellerhead, you could
burn 
>your own sounds with an EPROM burner. Since the same result could be
much 
>more easily acheived with a sampler, this kind of thing was of little 
>interest to me. Instead I went about pulling EPROMs out of discarded 
>computers and other equipment that I'd find in skips or by the side of
the 
>road. The drum machine accepted the standard size EPROM chips which are
>used in most computers and microprocessor controlled equipment. It was 
>just a matter of plugging these chips in and listening to the sounds
that 
>the drum machine would interpret from the random data. Sometimes I got 
>quite interesting results. Other times I'd just get white noise. 
> 
>In the early nineties I worked on a radio production about
nanotechnology. 
>For this we took the shield off a microphone and wandered around the
back 
>of the racks of the IT section of ABC radio in Sydney. Recorded some 
>interesting signals, buzzes clicks, etc.. 
> 
>Last year I did a performance with a SW radio and a Roland EF-303
effects 
>processor & step sequencer. The radio picked up the raw data from the 
>unearthed EF-303 and the output of the radio was fed back into the
EF-303. 
>This feedback loop could be "played" like a Theremin by moving the
radio 
>around in the air. 
> 
> 
> 
>Hello, I am new to the microsound mailing list. 
> 
>I am currently finishing my diploma in a visual arts school in 
>Strasbourg/France. 
>One of my works consists in 'recycling' raw data from my computer files
>(sound, images video, and others). With this data I want to create
sound 
>structures, and images. 
>I am also creating videos with moving abstract forms that then are 
>transformed to sound. 
>The final project will be a video that uses different techniques and 
>approaches in order to form one entity. 
> 
>I was doing researches on the internet sine a few months, and I never
really 
>found constructive documentation that could really help me - the proof:
I 
>found this mailing list only two days ago. 
> 
>If someone could give me some links, and other documentation about this
>process (books, authors, musicians, artists,S), I would appreciate. 
> 
>Thanks in advance 
> 
> 
>Stephan Tolstoi 
> 
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