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Exertion Music Instrument Design Wiki 

initiated by Noah Vawter  

 

 

How-To Section:        Generators  Rectifiers  Synthesizers  Amplifiers  Speakers  Resonances  Bodies   Complete Instruments    Parts List		Community:        Workshops   Flickr   YouTube   Twitter   Google Code Archive   The Electric Eel Players   Discussion Forum

 

 

 

 

 

Demonstration Video

This video shows Noah Vawter and Kelly Snook breathing life into a classic Finnish folksong, while Ryan O'Toole does a leekspin.  More videos are at our youtube page.

 

 

 

Special topics:      Synthesizer Synthesizer  *  Homebrew Measurement Tools * Developer's Kit

 

  Selecting Parts  *  Favorite Design Tools  *  Favorite Parts * Reference Design * Switching Power Supply

 

   Presentation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop and Performance Dates

 

• Noah Vawter will be presenting a workshop in building Exertion Instruments at Music Hackday Boston from Nov. 21, 2009 - Nov. 22, 2009

 

• Noah Vawter will be presenting a workshop on building Exertion Instruments at Tangible & Embedded Interfaces conference, January 25-27, 2010

 

• Noah Vawter will be teaching a master class in October 2009, with an accompanying performance. 

 

 

 

Links

 

 Electronics Design

• Electric Eel Schematic http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/ExertionInstruments/reports/Technical_Paper_on_Power_Generation.pdf
• Charge Pumps http://delicious.com/enzo308/charge+pump 

 

 Academic Homepage 

• Project home is at http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/projects/ExertionInstruments/  This Wiki is for user-generated content. 

  

Fellow Instrument Designers, Musician Friends, and Bloggers

 

          Steve Witham - Music Hacker

          Jonathan Ward - Has published an elegant circuit board mill design. 

Ethan Bordeaux - PSP Seq, etc.

Riff Roll - Chord searching database

Noteflight  - flash-based song/note editor/analyzer

Electronic Musician - Avtomat 

Computer Musician - Kurt Ralske

Music MetaData Mafia - EchoNest

The Squarepent / Homemade Tuba - Youtube  Howto Page

Awesome hacker's blog - http://hackaday.com

My Stereo Modification Blog with Izrocka - http://sickmods.blogspot.com/

Noah Vawter's Music - http://myspace.com/snackmastermusic

Jeff Snyder - http://www.snyderphonics.com/about.htm

Pete - Circuit-Bending Expert - http://www.casperelectronics.com/

Clarflupet - CAD Instrument - http://www.clarflupet.com/     http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaafsp.htm

Hardcore Circut-Bent Musicians - http://burnkit2600.com    

Electronics Genius Mark Feldmeier - http://www.media.mit.edu/~carboxyl

http://www.myspace.com/yatagarasu

Wonderful, happy, zippy chiptunes - http://selectstartrecords.com/systems-check-detroit.html

Lissajou - Brilliant Gameboy Musician - http://www.myspace.com/lissajou

 

 

You are invited to contribute to this wiki.  Write to nvawter-at-media.mit.edu