Milwaukee Traffic at Night
Recorded near Alterra Foundry on 1st Street, this captures some of the sounds of traffic on an August night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. You are free to use the file under the Creative Commons Attribution...
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Processing Audio
I got into Processing when I saw that it was a way to interface my desktop computer with an Arduino. Since then I’ve been exploring Processing more and seeing what it can do. The latest excursion has...
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The NoiseMakers (Part IX)
Once again we’ve got a noisemaker to tell you about. As you may know, there’s a whole series of these things, and they were all at Maker Faire Milwaukee in 2017, and each one is getting a blog post....
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The NoiseMakers (Part X)
Just a few more of these noisemakers… I swear! Yes, if you are not aware, I made a lot of them. I also brought them all to Maker Faire Milwaukee in 2017 so people could play with them. That’s the sort...
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The NoiseMakers (Part XI)
This is (almost) the last noisemaker. There’s been a whole series, and they were all at Maker Faire Milwaukee. But don’t worry, if you missed them in person you can read all about them… This one...
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The (Feed Your Soul) NoiseBowl
Back in October of 2017 Marc Ownley (member of Milwaukee Makerspace and amazing metal artist) brought a bunch of wooden bowls to the makerspace and asked members if they wanted to create something...
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WMSE Art & Music
Note: If you’re interested in owning this thing, you can bid on it at the WMSE Art & Music event on Friday, April 6th. (Yes, tickets are still available!) When I heard WMSE was doing a fundraising...
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Sleepy Noise Machine
Now that summer is over and the cold months have arrived we no longer sleep with fans running, but that means we sleep without the sound of fan running, and who can sleep with all that quiet? The wife...
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OctoNoise
For this year’s WMSE Art & Music event, I created a new board I call OctoNoise. It’s an eight note piano featuring capacitive touch pads, LEDs, a Teensy LC microcontroller, and some fine...
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AUDIO FACE [APC-320]
One of the projects I built for Maker Faire Milwaukee this year was AUDIO FACE [APC-320], which consists of the following things. A cabinet built from scrap wood and plastic found at Milwaukee...
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micro:bit Powered Xylophone
A recent fun project over at Brown Dog Gadgets is this automated xylophone controlled with a micro:bit… Check out the build guide. Full instructions including code and some helpful tips on choosing a...
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SoundProp – Sound Effects with Processing & MIDI
Sometimes you forget to document things, and sometimes you try to get ahead of the game. Back around 2009 I was one of the organizers of Web414, Milwaukee’s Web Community Meetup, and at some point...
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That DAWless Thing
Recently I posted about my history of music making and my love of the Pocket Operators. Now if you don’t know what a DAW is, DAW stands for Digital Audio Workstation, and basically it’s a computer...
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EGDR606 Drum Machine
While I’ve been doing this DAWless thing and avoiding using computers for music making I haven’t completely moved away from what might be called “computer music”. I was exploring iOS music...
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Pocket Operator Sync Splitter
If you’ve seen one of my Pocket Operator videos (like this one) you may have wondered how I have things hooked up. Since people seem to ask every now and then, I thought it would be helpful to just...
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Recording Video and (Line-in) Audio to the iPhone
I record audio & video of all my musical jams on my iPhone. I plug all my synth devices into a Bastl Dude mixer, then out to a splitter, one side goes to headphones so I can monitor, the other...
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