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DIY EMI / A / V / Noise

Category: Toneburst

  • UM3561 github / hackaday UM66 github / hackaday A limited edition of these DIY EMI (electronic musical instruments) will be made available through Toneburst in the near future. The instrument ideas were informed by Rob Hordijk‘s concept; ‘bent-by-design‘. They are physical remixes of the datasheet serving suggestions. The original schematic was quoted and transformed through…

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ <kat no.13> A very familiar journey. Two locations, Lisbon and Seixal. A river in between. A ferry crossing. A journey between north and south of the greater city of Lisbon in Portugal. These are the premises that envelope the project. The project results from a detailed exploration…

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ <kat no.12> Electronic instruments whispering together.Ebb and flow of timbre.No-nonsense sound play. Recorded in Kolobrzeg, Poland 2020.Mastering – Maciek JaciukInsert Graphics – Piotr Grygor releases November 6, 2020

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ A meeting of folk and electronics, the concrete and the temporary, the old and the new. Celebrating the worlds alongside our own, and the tales lost unless spoken. Ruins and nature hold the lore of the land, and these can be formed in sound, past and present.…

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ <kat no.10> Dramatic Surge is a collaboration between Tone Burst & Tribe Tapes, tribetapes.bandcamp.com , and is a continuation of the Drone & Drama project. Each of the four tracks utilise and are focused around BJCs’ Drama Instrument which was released as part of D&Dv2_Studies_v2.toneburst.bandcamp.com/album/d-dv2-studies-v2 Tone Burst…

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ <kat no.9> A Study of Symmetry. Lorrol is a collection of wanderings & sketches recorded in Munich, Germany between January and April 2020, primarily made using Lorre Mill instruments (LOR) and Sigil Instruments’ xRollz (ROL).(xRollz is a wooden bananafied version of the Ellitone Instruments UltraRollz Farm-Detective which…

  • Instructions to build a DIY electronic musical instrument. Instructables link. Compositions using the instruments made following this tutorial can be heard on the toneburst release, ‘Boxes & Blocks”.

  • The latest TONEBURST release is now available. https://toneburst.bandcamp.com/ <kat no.8> Companion Boxes and Companion Blocks are circuit bent DIY electronic musical instruments. They are the product of practicing hardware remixing. In this exercise; circuits designed to process signals have been transformed into signal generators. The sounds they make depend on the circuit that is used.…

  • Drone & Drama – 12v / Amplifier – 9v / Cassette recorder – 6v Analogue electronic music. Recycled cassette tapes. Renewable energy. Portable studio. Retro tech. Preparation for another TONEBURST collaboration.