- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (22 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415996090
- ISBN-13: 978-0415996099
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,427,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making - as well as creatively cannibalizing - electronic circuits for artistic purposes. With a sense of adventure and no prior knowledge, the reader can subvert the intentions designed into devices such as radios and toys to discover a new sonic world. At a time when computers dominate music production, this book offers a rare glimpse into the core technology of early live electronic music, as well as more recent developments at the hands of emerging artists. In addition to advice on hacking found electronics, the reader learns how to make contact microphones, pickups for electromagnetic fields, oscillators, distortion boxes, and unusual signal processors cheaply and quickly.
This revised and expanded second edition is extensively illustrated and includes a DVD featuring eighty-seven video clips and twenty audio tracks by over one hundred hackers, benders, musicians, artists, and inventors from around the world, as well as thirteen video tutorials demonstrating projects in the book. Further enhancements include additional projects, photographs, diagrams, and illustrations.
About the Author
Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer of electronic music, and has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and many other masters of modern music. Dr. Collins is Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has led hacking workshops around the world. He has been Visiting Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of Leonardo Music Journal.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a great book. For anyone interested in experimenting with electronic sound-making, no previous experience is needed as it starts from a very basic and accessible level to more complex circuits with oscillators, VCOs and sequencers.
Taking an approach that hands-on music making is a needed balance to the world of music software, this alllows you to get stuck from early on. There are plenty of projects to keep the tinkerer busy for weeks, nay months, and it also dips into circuit bending.
Written in a lively and interesting style, this 2nd edition of the book also includes a DVD demonstrating the projects and clips of sound artists' work. What a bargain!! Highly recommended
Taking an approach that hands-on music making is a needed balance to the world of music software, this alllows you to get stuck from early on. There are plenty of projects to keep the tinkerer busy for weeks, nay months, and it also dips into circuit bending.
Written in a lively and interesting style, this 2nd edition of the book also includes a DVD demonstrating the projects and clips of sound artists' work. What a bargain!! Highly recommended
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is very nicely written book by someone that knows what they are talking about.
A nice read indeed!
A nice read indeed!
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This a good book for those interested in messing around with electronic components and making some music.
I do not give it 5 stars mainly because the early chapters are rather too basic. There are loads of electronic books with chapters on "how to solder". I'd rather seen more in-depth projects with better circuit diagrams. One other problem is that you have to have a few dozen components hanging around to do any of the projects.
It's a good book but it could have been better.
I do not give it 5 stars mainly because the early chapters are rather too basic. There are loads of electronic books with chapters on "how to solder". I'd rather seen more in-depth projects with better circuit diagrams. One other problem is that you have to have a few dozen components hanging around to do any of the projects.
It's a good book but it could have been better.
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