I passed my song on to Dino Felipe and here’s what he came up with:

“awake by mistake”

 

 awake by mistake - dino felipe [8:11m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Old Athens, GA acquaintance Dave Matysiak started an online musical version of the telephone game project called Telephono as part of his residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Basically, he came up with a few original songs and sent them out to fellow artists and musicians to cut up, remix, redo, erase, whatever. The new versions are then sent on to the friend’s friends for re-interpretation, and the cycle continues.

My friend Lawson Grice asked me to re-interpret his interpretation of the song “Static snow creeps from the tv screen into your dreams letting you dance like an entranced tribal warrior on the sun.”

Here is Lawson’s original, titled “This is what it sounds like starring at a Nashville Pussy poster” and below that is my interpretation of Lawson’s song, which I call “Awake by the Lake”

 

 This is what it sounds like staring at a Nashville Pussy poster - Lawson Grice [3:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Awake by the Lake - Nick Hasty [7:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

And here are all the songs.

Yesterday I put together Ramsey’s UAM4 amplifier kit.

The amp is for my thesis project (see below). It’s an amazing amplifer. The board below is only 2.5 inches (!!), yet is able to produce 40watts mono or 20 watts stereo. It’s a partly surface mount unit, but not terribly difficult to put together. Just take your time, drink lots of water, stretch, and breath. Since it is a surface mount kit, you have to have tweezers, a magnifying glass, good solder, a small tip, some solder wick, and flux (this last one is a must). Don’t drink coffee either (jitters). Some of the capacitors are amazingly small, like I could fit dozens on my thumbnail. Luckily, the manufacturer supplies extra parts because sometimes the little pieces fly out of the tweezers and you can forget about finding them if they go far. I inserted my finger into the one of the pics below for scale.

This was my first surface mount work, and I have to thank p-comp allstars Todd Holoubek and Michale Chladil for their help.

Here’s the amp in action playing the Boredoms in stereo through two tactile transducers:

Here’s the slide show for my thesis midterm presentation. I haven’t blogged about my midterm in a while, and things have changed so here’s a quick update.

My thesis is tentatively called the EM brace, and it’s a wearable device for translating electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) into powerful sound waves that can be felt by the body. An antenna will be attached to the hand that can pick up EMF which will send those frequencies into a receiver/pre-amp that will turn the EM signals into audio waves. The audio waves will be sent into a powerful, compact amplifier which will give the signal enough juice to power some tactile transducers which will be attached to a brace structure that will wrap around the body. The tactile transducers are specially made to resonate whatever they are attached to, so the brace will vibrate strongly with the incoming signals.

I see this project as a way of engaging the body with the ambient electromagnetic signals that pass through us continually, as our bodies are essentially porous on a microscopic level. I’m still working out that kinks, so there will be more to come soon. Until now, enjoy the slideshow.

 

 MidTerm Presentation [0:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download