Atari Punk Console
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Stumble ThisGearwire's own Gretchen Hasse doesn't often venture in front of the Camera, but she's been so enamored of the GetLoFi Atari Punk Console 2.0 noise-box that she just had to share its baleful bleating with the world. Did I mention she's been sharing it with the office for the past two weeks? MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!
you could generate almost exactly the same sound using god knows how many sinths and actualy have full controle over them in a way that lets you produce exactly what you want.
so yah fine if u liek fidsaling with things and just producing random sounds gr8 sure you can have fun with it ( although its range and clarity seems limited) and i think there is somethign atractive with a phisical manifestatoin of something producing sound over software bassed sinths, however due to the cost eficentsy freedom and power you get from software sinths ( ore evan more established hardware sinths) this is a pritty stupid device. ( although i would still be glad for sumone to produce a good sound with it )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending
its a little artsy in the sense that planned progression is not neccesarily a goal. maybe think improv meets aleatoric music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music
http://gmm.ugress.com/post.asp?id=331
im not i totaly apreceat geting sounds out of random things and i can see the charm in that , but thats what you are doing when you are playing with a sinth on a pc ore when you are playing a gutar ore whatever as long as you apreach annything that produces sound with an open mind set you will be able to play with it and get interesting sounds. its just a fact that u get very little controle over the way these devices produce sound so yah its fun hititng scraping things in the enviroment to get sounds from them, but its not worth the hyp these people have bult into it.
say i go around hiting things and yah some things might make a sound i like which is cool and then id be like ohh how could i improve that ore use it to maintain my intrestead and eventualy you would probably invent an instrement,
i allso like the idea of geting an unintended sound from something that was designd to do somethign else now these people make it out to be some lade da artsy thing but the fact is the music industry asa whole has done this repeatedly and its a realy comon way for artists to generate a nesh for themselfs, like the tpan efect , ore bob marly playng the gutar in a unconventoinal way.
iv watched a number of documentries and know a cuple of people that do this stuff alot and thay feal like thay have to suport it in some strange way, its like limography in photography its fun and gr8 u can spend alod of mony on random camra bits but the fact is you can achive all the afects using photoshop, and infact at least with photoshop its intentoinal so thers an eliment of skill there, yes maby u just want a random afect and thats the charm but when that random afect costs alot of time and mony than it would to produce using othe rmethods. i would say the cheapest least time consuming method of achiving the same output is the best.
( if you like something on a subjective level fine i cnt argue that but if you have a conversation with that as the assumption all discourse is irrelevant)