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Bent MC-505 Tutorial

Here’s some info from their site:

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http://dorkbotchicago.blogspot.com/

WTF:

What is a “dorkbot”?! The idea of the international dorkbot network is “people doing strange things with electricity” and meeting in informal, friendly environments to discuss their projects. These projects could include hardware hacks, New Media Art projects, creative code, circuit bent musical instruments or wild DIY garage science!

Joe Hahn

Joe Hahn & Tyler St Clair @ dorkbot Chicago on September 24 2009!

Joe Hahn aka Protman is a programmer and computer music artist based in Chicago. Primarily composing with software inspired by late 80s mod trackers like Impulse Tracker, Schism Tracker, and Renoise, he also implements the use of game controllers and other input devices with PureData to translate them into midi controllers and custom sequencers. Joe is also a proponent and often host of monthly computer music battles called “Iron Chef of Music” where contenders locally and worldwide via telecommute simultaneously spend two hours creating a new piece of music out of a single audio sample. After two hours there is an exhibition and discussion of all the track submissions where cheffers can learn about software and technique from one another. Joe is also working to open a museum and workshop in Chicago with a focus on diy/circuit-bent music hardware and software.

TSC

The Milwaukee, WI native Tyler St Clair (Stagediver/Dispyz) has been an avid user and abuser of trailing-edge computer technology since 1995. During the first half of 2009 he released two lo-fi, 7″ vinyls on the Radiograffiti music imprint, which were written and recorded on the Amiga line of computers using several well-known trackers such as MED, and OctaMED.

Throughout the years though he has been known to play shows/eliminate boredom using modified and circuit-bent gear including (but not limited to) a VIC-20 & MC-505. He also began work on several Atari 2600 sample playback utilities back in 2003 and has even been seen as a supporter of the UK hacking scene, evidenced by musical submissions to the Hackervoice UK podcast.

He also has the natural ability to see through clothing.

More info on his recent hardware projects/vinyl releases can be found at
http://www.radiograffiti.org

DATE:

Thursday September 24th 2009

TIME:

7 PM

LOCATION:

Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL 60622

http://www.enemysound.com

COST:

FREE

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Tracker Discussion w/ TSC & Joe Hahn

Fuck yeah! Looks like Roland did it again….without trying of course.

**edit**

Ok so people have asked me if this is at all connected to the Amiga 600 modification on here as well…it is not. This is just simply a bent 505 with all the functions working as usual. D-beam, filter, sequencer, patch memory, card reader, etc. A *useful* bend for the rest of us tired of sk/s&s noise.

Truth be told I came up with this mod almost two years ago but just recently decided to speak up about it to help my chances of performing for bent fest NYC. So far it looks like that will not be happening (??) so if you’d like to hear this bad boy in action visit http://myspace.com/stagediver414 in the meantime. **REMEMBER** A tutorial will be posted at http://trebledeathsystem.com on how to perform this mod by this time next week. Thanks.

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Circuit-bent MC-505…

In the meantime here are a few pics to drum up some interest:

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Coming Soon…