Returning for a fourth installment is the Instrument A Day all during February on MoonMilk.com. This years installment features some of the most and least (but to good effect) ambitious projects yet. Moonmilk comes to us from sound artist (and Brooklyn neighbor) Ranjit Bhatnagar. The project is also viewable as a flickr set of photos [...] [...]
1 weekend, 1 thrift store toy, 1 Arduino, and 1 obsessed geek. Scott is one half of Evidence, Brown Cuts Neighbors’ former steel pan player and the original drummer/co-conspirator in nickname: Rebel. [...]
During at least the last two February’s, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built and blogged an instrument a day for the whole month. Ranjit works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative art; and, he has been maintaining his personal web site moonmilk.com in one form or another since 1993. The moonmilk [...] [...]
SHARE SJ Jam October 28, 2009 from Marc Arsenault on Vimeo. Villa Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA SHARE San Jose open jam. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into a common system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. Participants at this meeting included Tim Thompson with his Loopy Cam, Fred Lakin with matchbooks [...] [...]
Gold Bear Lego Bricks, by Marc Arsenault on flickr. An entire brand new bag of Haribo Gold-Bears was left in the car. They melted into a nasty gummy blob. I plopped it on top of a Lego silicone ice brick mold under glass out in the sun. It melted back down into bricks. Leave to cool, [...] [...]
This is, of course, also true for artists, makers, crafters, and all other manner of geek, electronic whiz, computer genius, hacker, basement and garage tinkerer and eccentric; but, I’ve found that it is the music connection that really resonates (sorry, pun) with people, and has brought in the most luscious booty. Most recent example – [...] [...]
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