"Early electronic music (& the recording of music itself) was born of experimenting artists & engineers, patiently listening to the bleeps, swoops and crackles of electricity as it flowed through components loving soldered together by hand. The early pioneers of electronic music had to build their own instruments from scratch, finding new sounds as they went, inventing entirely new musical languages & forms, pulling new sounds from the ether.In Nicolas Collins’ book ‘Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking we shake off the bounds of mass produced software, of expensive consumer electronics and re-enter the exploratory worlds of early electronic experimentalists such as David Tudor & Alvin Lucier, riding the pulsating waves of sonic history through to contemporary hardware hackers & instrument builders such as Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, Phil Archer, John Bowers & of course Nicolas Collins himself."
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Update: consensus in the comments is that this is a good book.
BTW, If you are into handmade electronic music also check out the NORCAL Noisefest. via Brian Comnes.
Hey I bought the book tonight on Half.com for $16...way cool..thanks for the tip
ReplyDeleteI would totally recomend this book to anyone and everyone who has even the slightest interest in lofi/diy/alternative electronic instruments... My fave is the 'victorian synthesiser'...
ReplyDeleteThis is a great book.
ReplyDeleteI took a class from Nic Collins last year and got an early, pre-release copy of the book. I refer to it a lot, it's a great resource.
This is a great resource book, especially the pictures, and it's really practical for beginners. Definitely for anyone into electronica.
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