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