IDM Mailing Archive

If you want to hear what can be done hacking a CD player, get "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night", which has a piece "Broken Light" for string quartet and 'modified CD Player'. There are these wonderful sections where the CD 'skates' over a passage, and the violins imitate the skating sound. It also has 'It was a dark and stormy night' which uses some sort of homemade device that takes the narrators voice and uses it to trigger percussion sounds after a slight delay. The drums shamble along in the footsteps of the voice like a dog on a leash. Nick Collins is a composer and a hardware hacker, other of his inventions include the inverse guitar, which works by driving signals into a pickup, vibrating the strings magnetically, and then amplifying the output of another conventional pickup. His CD is Trace Elements TE-1019CD. Trace Elements is at 172 E. 4th Street Suite 11D NY NY 10009 [Trace Elements is a one-man label done by Robert Poss of the Band of Susans. You know about one person labels, eh Terre?] -- "where are all the electrons going?" -- Matt Haines "eight bytes read at zero bytes per second" -- Netscape status line [Kent Williams/CADSI/2651 Crosspark Rd/Coralville IA 52241] kent.williams@cadsi.com