It’s easy – and partly appropriate – to appreciate the bleeps and blips of homemade and bent circuits as noise-making insanity. But as Peter Edwards (casperelectronics) and E-Squared walked us through their creations at the April installment of Handmade Music, it was clear that compositional exploration was at the heart of the work. Edwards talked about trying to be freer with sound and get away from techno, using handmade creations that helped him shake musical habits. E-Squared described studying the intricacies of classic Roland drum machine and synth circuits, then re-imagining them in fantastic new creations that allowed them to turn their table of gear into an interconnected sound-making machine.
Etsy’s Eric Beug and Make’s Collin Cunningham – makers themselves, both – captured the results in video. See also the MAKE: blog post:
Scenes from the Last Handmade Music
But Handmade Music doesn’t have to be limited to just Brooklyn. We’ve gotten a number of inquiries about creating these events elsewhere, and I have some ideas for how CDM can help you organize and promote such events. To start the ball rolling, let us know if you’re interested in organizing (not just attending) such an event. No commitment, but it’ll help us put together a group of people. Fill out the embedded Google Docs form below or head directly to the form:
Handmade Music Around the World
Submission form:
I went ahead and filled out your form. I kept it short and sweet. 🙂
To reiterate, what I need help with more than anything is finding other interested people in the Detroit area. So if anyone reading this lives here and is interested, email me at my gmail account: dmlandrum
(Sorry for the obfuscation. Spambots and all. Yeah, I hate it, too.)
Details on E-Squared's DIY gear are on my website.
http://ericarcher.net/devices
Handmade Music night was awesome.
EA
awesome stuff
Sent an inquiry. Thanks for the post, this is awesome man.
[…] Here’s video of E-Squared and Pete Edwards playing at Handmade Music Night in Brooklyn 4-16-09, courtesy of createdigitalmusic.com […]
[…] Eric Beug posted up this awesome footage from the last Handmade Music event here in Brooklyn. It includes some great detail shots of E-Squared & Pete Edwards instruments in use. [via Create Digital Music] […]
[…] Eric Beug posted up this awesome footage from the last Handmade Music event here in Brooklyn. It includes some great detail shots of E-Squared & Pete Edwards instruments in use. [via Create Digital Music] […]
Finally…blips and bleeps for the sake of making music— as opposed to blips and bleeps as an excuse to buy a soldering iron. I'm sure we all appreciate a studied and thought out approach to some ad-hoc 'accidental' dissonance. Its refreshing to see DIY utilized for the sake of composition. I was about to scream if I was to read another article encouraging the masses to commit mass rape on a generation of speak and spells. Cheers!
[…] Eric Beug posted up this awesome footage from the last Handmade Music event here in Brooklyn. It includes some great detail shots of E-Squared & Pete Edwards instruments in use. [via Create Digital Music] […]
[…] Eric Beug posted up this awesome footage from the last Handmade Music event here in Brooklyn. It includes some great detail shots of E-Squared & Pete Edwards instruments in use. [via Create Digital Music] […]
Is it horrible of me that I am constantly sampling these wonderful things?
Awsome stuff. I would just love to see the faces of the guys at customs on any airport when they see all the circuitry. Oh it's a synthesizer in a briefcase…..hehe
[…] an opportunity to work on this stuff with other people, live, in person – and a call to extend this around the world, beyond Brooklyn, has already resulted in a number of cities in the US, plus London, Berlin, and […]