April 2008

Homemade Chicken Coop

Tuesday 15 April 2008

I built this:

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these machines plays folk songs

Wednesday 9 April 2008

Here’s a song I made using: a tyco hotkeyz keytar, a yamaha dd-7 drum machine, and a sample from a Woody Guthrie song:

I like how Woody is holding the drum machine at such a jaunty angle.

The reason I chose to mix these three things together (and it should probably be mixed a lot better) is because there are certain design elements to each of these things that make them go together perfectly in a live performance setting. I probably could have edited the song to get everything a lot tighter but I only used live performances in the mix to demonstrate that a song like this could be played live.

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