Mururoar

These records were cut on an Epilog 120 Watt Legend EXT to a theoretical precision of 1200dpi (the kerf of the cut and some tricks I used to avoid crashing the laser cutter dropped the actual precision down by ~1/6). The audio on the records has a bit depth between 4-5 (typical mp3 audio is 16 bit) and a sampling rate up to about 4.5kHz (mp3 is 44.1kHz). So far I’ve successfully cut audio on wood (figs 1-2), acrylic (figs 3-4), and paper (figs 5-6), and I’m sure there are many more materials that would work. I wrote the Processing sketch that generates the record cutting paths so that it can be modified for any song, material, cutting machine, record size, and turntable speed (skip ahead to download the code and learn how to make your own records).

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“I Dream of Wires” (IDOW) is an upcoming, independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer – exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Written and directed by Robert Fantinatto, with Jason Amm (Ghostly International recording artist Solvent) serving as producer and co-writer, IDOW is set to receive it’s festival premiere, May 2013.

IDOW is set to premiere spring 2013
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As you might have noticed, we’ve been quite busy doing audio projects all over the place, but we’ve spend little time looking inward to the spaces we’ve been working in. And no wonder, since building serious studio space is usually a job best left to the professionals.
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I said that if i got to 6000 likes i’d reveal my ‘lever scratch’ technique. It’s not brain surgery but here’s how i did it:
On the base of the tone arm there’s a small screw which determines the height of the rest that the lever moves up and down to raise the arm. Just lift the lever to the top then turn the screw a little until the needle skims the record. Use a skip proof record and the movement of your hane moving the vinyl plus the transforming the lever causes the needle to bounce up and down on the record in time, causing the quick stuttery cutting sound. boom, the lever scratch.
Now if any of u feckers win DMC off that shit then you owe me a gold turn or at least a bloody jacket!!!

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“You need some rehearsal and to read the manual to use the Sherman Filterbank. Most musicians are RTFM people … read the fucking manual!” — SHERMAN TECH TALK feature, taken from Slices Issue 3-08.

Herman Gillis der Vater der Sherman Filterbank steht in diesem Slices Tech Talk Rede und Antwort.

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