Comments on: Thingamawha? Thingamagoop2!

By: gob bluth

gob bluth — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:40:23 +0000

oh no! the nerds are mad!

By: v1rus

v1rus — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:44:19 +0000

LOL @ all everyone hating circuit bending as hard as they can.

We should illegalize Arduinos, so electrical engineers won’t have to deal with the sort of musician riff raff that creates these illogical random sounds that probably aren’t music because they arent generated by a guitar.

By: v1rus

v1rus — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:13:53 +0000

The new one looks dope. The arduino connectivity is just what I wanted.

I recorded an entire EP of rap/noise tracks using one of the original thingamagoops, running through a Sampletrak st-224′s effects processor.

It is called VOLKSWAGON, Click my name to download it. It sucks pretty bad.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:19:52 +0000

deconstruction will allow a construction of a future aspect on our relationship to sounds created by electronic devices. The circuit bending movement is giving birth to a new interest amongst young people to build their own synthesizers.

By: twistedsymphony

twistedsymphony — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:42:41 +0000

I want to like Circuit bending… I really do, the concept of hacking an instrument to produce new and unique sounds is so damn appealing and inspiring….

Unfortunately 99.9% of the time the end result fails HARD and ends up just being annoying sounds.

I’d really love to see someone who circuit bends and gets some worth-listening-to music out the other end… surely SOMEONE out there falls into this category.

By: Hitek146

Hitek146 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:16:56 +0000

^”How does it bias”… :D

By: Hitek146

Hitek146 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:13:49 +0000

That schematic seems odd… The switch above the lower-left op-amp and darlington appears to switch between two caps of the same value. Wtf? And the emitter of the bottom-center darlington isn’t connected to anything. How is does it bias? Strange…

By: Godi

Godi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:13:30 +0000

Can everybody please stop bitching about arduino’s, it is very old. Just call it post-anti-arduinoism. It’s the new thing!

By: jeff-o

jeff-o — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:28:48 +0000

Good Lord you people complain a lot.

By: rd

rd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:12:51 +0000

The device itself really isn’t interesting at all. I am, however, interested in their use of the Arduino board solely for its FTDI chip. I’ll have to remember that trick the next time I need to get debugging information out of one of my projects.

By: lurker

lurker — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:08:38 +0000

I kinda feel bad categorizing the video as ‘shit’, it just seems like a few guys wanking around and playing with the cv output of the box, not a master work that I’d be comfortable showing off to the world. Nothing wrong with that, but as third parties to the video I’m not sure that the rest of us will get the enjoyment that the creators got out of the experience.

@angrydroid

I don’t think that any of us have a problem with that (I don’t at least), circuit bending is great when it is used as baby steps toward something bigger or just viewed as brainless mucking around. People get mad when circuit bending is used to turn electronics into some kind of dogmatic, artsy enterprise that unlocks “parallel worlds that weren’t meant to be accessed” like the wikipedia article tries to spin it.

By: angrydroid

angrydroid — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:41:27 +0000

what a bunch of cranky pills.
circuit-bending is fun and a great way to introduce people to electronics.

By: therian

therian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:27:09 +0000

@MePipes
there is good noise Apex Twin for example but circuit bending is crap nothing more

By: MePipes

MePipes — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:40:27 +0000

If any of the “negativists” had taken a modern music history course, they might not find the sounds of the Thingamagoop that out of place. If Busoni could have had one of these when he wrote the “New Aesthetic of Music”, he would have been psyched (1907)!

Listen to the old stuff, before you say you listen to a lot of “new”,”weird” stuff. Try some Stockhausen, or Varèse, Cage, Cowell, Partch, Ussachevsky, etc. Mario Davidovsky’s ‘Synchronisms’ being a set of personal favorites.

Trolls: 1 Me: 0 (’cause you got my hackles up)

By: nobob!no!

nobob!no! — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:58:23 +0000

little bobob has lost its knob, and cannot find it anymore, Duude! wtf, be a bit more constructive….

Even though i have to agree that it’s a pity that there’s a lot of arduino stuff on this site and not so many other microcontroller ‘hacks’.

Nice box, shame for the electronics inside, have to agree with lurker