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Morrissey Machine Cassette Tape Looper

Custom build for my friend Jenny who plays as Gossimer. I’ll try to dig up some video because this thing sounds kind of demonic. It’s two cassette decks hacked together with a single loop running between them. You can record continuously onto the tape or simply play it back. You can also control the speed and direction of the motor …

Circuit Bending: Casio PT-80

Originally Posted September 1, 2015 I received a commission to circuit bend a number of different things, including the Casio PT-80 shown.This particular Casio is less sought after for circuit bending as not many tone bending or glitch points can be found in it as the sound parameters are stored on a memory card. There are, however, a number of …

Mills College Signal Flow 2015: Days 2 and 3

Originally Posted March 8th, 2015 Friday and Saturday went very well at Signal Flow. I spend the day on Friday going through my code to see if I could get things running more consistently and managed to figure out a workaround. The Timer library for Arduino ended up being the answer to my woes, and I was able to set …

Mills College Signal Flow 2015: Day One!

Originally posted March 6th, 2015 Yesterday was the first day of Signal Flow (and the day I was finally allowed into the space I am using to setup my installation)! It was definitely an interesting setup. I had a buddy help me move the ladder but the rest was all me. It took something like 12 hours but everything is …

Filament Synthesizer

Originally posted December 28th, 2014 This past semester I designed and constructed an instrument that modulates sine waves with the amplified sound of light bulb filaments. The instrument is in two parts: the first being the amplified light bulb interface which allows for control of amplitude and the frequency at which the filaments are vibrating (by way of dimmer switches), …