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Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making--as well as creatively cannibalizing--electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Designed for practioners and students of electronic art, it provides a guided tour through the world of electronics, encouraging artists to get to know the inner workings of basic electronic devices so they can creatively use them for their own ends.
Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while instructing the student in basic electronic principles, always from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry.

About the Author
Nicolas Collins, an active composer and performer of electronic music, is a Professor of Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has led Hacking workshops around the world, from Beijing to Brussels, and has worked with John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and many other masters of modern music.

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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
clock resistor, jumping speaker, solid hookup wire, piezo disk, small spring clamps, telephone pickup, summing resistors, distortion circuit, piezo driver, contact mike, solder side, microphone elements, ground bus, clip lead, game pad, guitar pickup, clock circuit, output jack, tape head, solder pads, speaker cone, shielded cable, sound artists

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Schmitt Trigger, Radio Shack, David Tudor, Nicolas Collins, Circuit Bending, Rule of Hacking, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Hex Inverter, John Bowers, Visual Music, Double Throw, Lowell Cross, Phil Archer, Composing Inside Electronics, David Behrman, Jon Satrom, Sukandar Kartadinata, Tape Bow Violin, The Luthiers, Aurora Borealis, Bert Bongers, Cartridge Music, Composers Inside Electronics, Felix Hess

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