Handmade Electronic Music

Table of Contents: Part I: Starting Acknowledgements Forward by David Behrman Introduction Chapter 1: Getting Started Tools and materials needed. Chapter 2: The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking General advice. Part II: Listening Chapter 3: Circuit Sniffing Using radios and coils to eavesdrop on hidden electromagnetic music. Sidebar #1: Mortal Coils Chapter 4: In/Out Speaker as microphone, microphone as speaker - the symmetry of it all. Chapter 5: The Celebrated Jumping Speaker of Bowers County Twitching loudspeakers with batteries. Chapter 6: How to Solder An essential skill. Chapter 7: How to Make a Contact Mike Using piezo disks to pick up tiny sounds. Sidebar #2: John Cage - The Father of Invention Sidebar #3: Piezo Music Chapter 8: Turn You Tiny Wall Into a Speaker Resonating objects with piezo disks, transformers and motors. Sidebar #4: David Tudor and Rainforest Sidebar #5: Drivers Chapter 9: Tape Heads Playing credit cards with hand-held tape heads. Sidebar #6: Tape Chapter 10: A Simple Air Mike Cheap condenser mike elements make great microphones. Part III: Touching Chapter 11: Laying of Hands Transforming a portable radio into a synthesizer by making your skin part of the circuit. Sidebar #7: The Crackle Box Chapter 12: Tickle the Clock Finding the clock circuit in toys. Chapter 13: Hack the Clock Changing the clock speed for cool new noises. Sidebar #8: Composing Inside Electronics Chapter 14: Ohm's Law for Dummies How to understand resistors. Chapter 15: Beyond the Pot Photocells, pressure pads, and other ways to control and play your toy. Sidebar #9: Circuit Bending Chapter 16: Switches How to understand different switches, and even make your own. Chapter 17: Jack, Batt & Pack Finishing touches: powering and packaging your hacked toy. Part IV: Building Chapter 18: World's Simplest Oscillator Six oscillators on a 20-cent chip, guaranteed to work. Chapter 19: From Breadboard to Circuit Board How to solder up your first homemade circuit. Chapter 20: More Oscillators Oscillators that modulate each other. Chapter 21: Even More Oscillators Dividers, feedback loops and instability; using oscillators as clocks for toys. Chapter 22: On/Off Gating, ducking, tremolo and panning. Chapter 23: Amplification and Distortion A simple circuit that goes from clean preamp to total distortion. Chapter 24: Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort of Modulating other audio sources with your oscillators. . Part V: Looking Chapter 25: Video Music/Music Video Translating video signals into sound, hacking cheap camera circuits, and extracting sounds from remote controls. Chapter 26: LCD Art Making animated modern daguerreotypes and alternative video projectors. Sidebar #10: Visual Music Part VI: Finishing Chapter 27: Mixers, Matrices and Processing Very simple, very cheap, very clean mixers, and ways of configuring lots of circuits. Chapter 28: A Little Power Amplifier A cheap & simple amplifier. Chapter 29: Analog to Digital Conversion, Really Connecting sensors to computers using game controllers. Sidebar #11: The Luthiers Chapter 30: Power Supplies If you must, here's how to plug into the wall with minimal risk. Appendices Appendix 1: Resources Where to find information and materials. Appendix 2: References and Notes Appendix 3: Inventory What you need to do the projects in this book. Appendix 4: The Rules of Hacking and the Laws of the Avant Garde A recapitulation. Appendix 5: Notes for the audio CD Apppendix 6: Illustration Credits