Sacramento Audio Waffle Episode 110 - January 2025

video upload by Norcal Noisefest

"Sacramento Audio Waffle Episode 110 - January 2025

Noisefest page:
https://norcalnoisefest.com/

**VIRTUAL 001**
Dylan Houser (Lakeland, FL)
https://dhouser.bandcamp.com

**VIRTUAL 002**
Pandatone (Oakland, CA)
https://linktr.ee/basiclene

**001**
MealFace (Sacramento, CA)

**002**
BAGHEAD (Sutter Creek, CA)
https://soundcloud.com/baghead

**003**
My Whole Hand Was Wet (Nevada City, CA)
https://www.instagram.com/chrusnofier...

**004**
Protofrustration (Rancho Cordova, CA)
https://protofrustration.bandcamp.com/

**005**
An Apparition (Lincoln, CA)
https://an-apparition.bandcamp.com/

**006**
Smite - BIRTHDAY SHOW! (Sacramento, CA)
https://superartmedia.square.site/"

NORCAL NOISEFEST Pics

click here for more

via brian c

Norcal NoiseFest via Brian Comnes

Some shots and notes from this year's Norcal NoiseFest via Brian Comnes. Title link takes you to a couple more shots. "OK here is a beat up SH-09 , kinda sad actually .. I guess .those noise boys are tough on their gear. I will say that the acts that had the best "quality" sound had a strong analog presence in their mix , Stimbox (pic also attached) was using a lot of Metasonix gear and a Frostwave Resonator (your favorite)[indeed]. The harmonic variations and sound artifacts he was able to coax out of the din were exceptionally better than the rest of the crowd relying pretty much on gobs of 9VDC guitar pedals. The other act that got a strong rise from the crowd was using an old HP tube-based oscillator for sound sweeps that were "sweet" in a noise fest kind of way. Best visuals goes to the guy in the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler mask with a piezo contact pickup glued on a number 10 can that he then pushed into a carborundum grinder - hearing that through a large PA with a pair of cranked Mackie 1801 subs in a small room is an earful for sure. Noise fest will definitely push your boundaries for what really is synthesis and sound, I enjoyed it overall in part because it also puts the stuff I do into a clearer context. Hey the show is now 10 years old so it has some legs. Also because they are a city-funded arts event, they are exempt from noise ordinances, I'm sure the neighbors next to the event loved that." Click images for a bigger shot. Check out IDX1274's Lucha Libre mask.

Y2K6 Looping Festival and NorCal Noisefest

Two events coming up sent my way via Brian Comnes.

Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival
"Over 50 artists from around the globe will converge on the San Francisco Bay Area this fall for the Fifth Annual Y26K Live Looping Festival. Perfomers from across the United States and as many as 10 other countries will appear in Santa Cruz, Calif., on October 21 and 22, for the main two days of the festival. Additional festival-related events will be held in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland during the week preceding the main festival."

Nor Cal Noise Fest.
"The Norcal Experimental Music Festival was started in 1995 and was held at the Guild Theatre in Sacramento, on November 3rd, and 4th. Performers came from all over the western United States and Canada. 2006 will mark the 11 year anniversary of NOISEFEST happening in the Sacramento area, and will be the 10th time this event has occured. After searching the web and beyond ..we have yet to find ANY other Noise/Experimental festival happening anywhere else in the World that has continued for as long as NorCal NoiseFest has. we thank you for your patronage."

Handmade Electronic Music

"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."

via PS. On Amazon

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.