on some soldering iron ish
Chairmaster
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I'm a writer (and long time SS lurker) for a magazine based in new york and I'm doing a story on something that could hold some interest for the people of SoulStrut.The feature is on the creative uses of dead and/or broken technology, and seeing as how there's a lot of know how and ingenuity on SS there should be quite a few people who've done something in this vein. A few examples of things i've found are an old sewing machine rigged to wrap the hair-thin wire used in contructing guitar pickups, a 16-year-old who took the uranium from 50 old smoke detectors and built a working nuclear reactor (this kid is quite elusive though), and the more typical fish tank built inside a television or iMac. I realize my lurking status will probably bring out the , but this is something that a lot of people could get down on, so post or PM me if you like.
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- spidey
i've personally bent a TI Math & Spell and it has some weird nonsense output, but a very rich sound.
check out magazines wired, spectrum, make, pop sci and every geek blog out there for tons of info.
Not related but fits the bill...
Personally I think 99.9% of the music coming out of this movement is garbage and not at all groundbreaking... Merzbow was doing this shit for years before the whole sk1/speaknspell fad.
http://merzbow.net/
i built a stereoimaging binaral microphone out of a dummy head. it was all smoke and mirrors though.
tape-op.
It is broad, however, the magazine isn't a technical one. Basically it's the magazine's second issue, so there is a vague theme of two, hence the story on the rebirth of old or broken technology. It doesn't have to be a project that requires rewiring or anything technical, I think the magazine's blog even mentioned a keyboard doorstop.
Thank you to everyone for the help, I'm actually on my way to pick up some of the mags a few of you have mentioned.
and pick me up a quart of old harper and a copy of swank while youre out.