mo-seph
mo-seph is my solo project, producing four albums worth of music over several years. Review of Growth and Form and The Other Place:
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Haiku Heads Up
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Inspired by chatting with Tim Fairhall, this is pair of patches for displaying haikus to networked performers. They're done as max for live patches, but would work equally well in pure max.
The first patch loads a collection of haikus from a text file, or sends them out as they are typed in. The lines are then distributed via net.maxhole to anyone else on the local network.
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Preamped Hydrophones
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I've built up a hydrophone using one of the new piezo preamp boards, and tested it against my last hydrophone.
Not the most scientific test, but demonstrates a bit what's going on. 
Hydrophone Construction 1
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Piezo Preamp Build and Testing
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I've just had a batch of piezo preamp circuit boards made by makepcb.com, and given them a first round of testing. Here's the results!
Piezo Boards
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TR-I/O-FON
Triophon at Dialogues 2008 TR-I/O-FON is Owen Green (GungWho), Jules Rawlinson (pixelmechanic) and Dave Murray-Rust (mo-seph). We make improvised laptop music.
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The Other Place
A collection of tracks from the last few years. Sparkling, wiggling, crunchy time signatures and dirty basses.
Also on Free Music Archive and Black Lantern Music
"The breadth of styles and influences absorbed is spectacular... Download both, get 'em on your mp3 player and set course for the middle of nowhere... real fucking wow music." - Liam Arnold, Team Little Rock / Shallow Rave
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Growth and Form
This is the second full mo-seph album, spanning about two years from start to finish. It's one continuous piece of music, sliding from one imaginary landscape to another.
Also on Free Music Archive and Black Lantern Music
"The breadth of styles and influences absorbed is spectacular... Download both, get 'em on your mp3 player and set course for the middle of nowhere... real fucking wow music." - Liam Arnold, Team Little Rock / Shallow Rave
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DIY Piezo: Rochelle Salt Crystals
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Leafcutter John has a great post about making Rochelle Salt, which is piezoelectric, and hence can be used as a contact mic: Real Sound Cookery.
My folks Peter and Judith are both crystallographers, so I thought I'd put them to work in the lab (kitchen) to make some nice crystals.
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Second generation Piezo Preamp boards on their way
Submitted by dave on
Matt put this picture of the next round of Piezo Preamp boards up on his Flickr Stream. I've removed the piezo -ve input, and tied it to ground, which might loose 3dB of gain, but makes figuring out ground planes a lot easier. I couldn't hear the difference when I shorted piezo -ve to ground, and it makes the layout much smaller and easier.
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Piezo Preamps
I love using piezo contact mics - they're small and cheap, and can do a whole bunch of different things.
Unfortunately, they can sound pretty rubbish. In particular, they don't like long cables - all of the bass disappears, and they get quite "muddy".
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