Few weeks without a post, but we have been busy preparing for the first submission!
We now have a couple of successfully hacked toys/instruments each, and met on monday for an improvisation session to hear what eachother's toys can do and how they can work together musically. We took some iPhone videos of some of the toys which are currently taking hours to upload to YouTube; I'll post seperate new updates for each video once they finally upload!
We were quite surprised upon hearing what each of our hacked bits of gear could do not only how crazy some of the sounds generated by very simple hacks can be, but also how well our individual toys/instruments complimented each other. It was great to finally get together and try and use our odd bits of gear to make some music and we were all pretty excited by the results that we got:
Jordan and David set up the Cannon XL2 camera to capture the video, and I plugged all the toys straight into my Fireface to get a high quality, multi-channel recording in Cubase. Featured in the video are David's toy guitar and crazy toy apple at the back, Jordan's Yamaha keyboard and toy phone and my Sony Walkman (which died just a couple of minutes in due to some poor soldering!) and toy duck. Although this was only our first group improvisation, parts of the recording work really well; we definitely have a good foundation to build on musically and it's reasurring to find out that our initial attempts at circuit-bending were worth the effort. Although there's still a long way to go, I think we are off to a good start!
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