tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26017222975661406352024-03-12T23:11:05.803-07:00Oprah's Favorite Death Metalyouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-46660599686075424432021-07-05T08:13:00.003-07:002021-07-05T08:13:45.025-07:00Brown note upgrade for bassoon<p> Sure, a bassoon can play pretty low, but maybe we could make it even lower. Like, intestine-rattlingly low. I designed a low A1 extension for my bassoon in Fusion 360 and printed it with my Ender 3. Should work on any other bassoon with a 38 mm bell. Here's a pic of the result:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQjqVPZT877rSr_AxBgQEtzGFW6qL5hdV-fnZvW4vdgEb9Qf_C0r60G1PIpujcPvQAhPb-Ijx4uJGQ42QYa5Oaqi2NkVraN7ZiUnbj0SkK8YFdOD_PgzjGbwH8PSPBZIB9sKN4_N8p0Dj/s504/extension+alone.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="378" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiQjqVPZT877rSr_AxBgQEtzGFW6qL5hdV-fnZvW4vdgEb9Qf_C0r60G1PIpujcPvQAhPb-Ijx4uJGQ42QYa5Oaqi2NkVraN7ZiUnbj0SkK8YFdOD_PgzjGbwH8PSPBZIB9sKN4_N8p0Dj/s320/extension+alone.PNG" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFbHa0uLWoHnDRM3WZly0nBLduX4yjGllIWWdpl2ntbEerCnSDQ2ezZo1rymDScFtWsLTbkQ70y52TChbJb4o6GXn2ErElrX1f6MxwOEe5TnnLpziXxu2-3mjn1UdAG4rZL3rsgl7wkOz9/s499/extension+in+bassoon.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFbHa0uLWoHnDRM3WZly0nBLduX4yjGllIWWdpl2ntbEerCnSDQ2ezZo1rymDScFtWsLTbkQ70y52TChbJb4o6GXn2ErElrX1f6MxwOEe5TnnLpziXxu2-3mjn1UdAG4rZL3rsgl7wkOz9/s320/extension+in+bassoon.PNG" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here's the bad boy in action:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="362" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8I5ej5xXZ_c" width="479" youtube-src-id="8I5ej5xXZ_c"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Since it doesn't add any additional keywork, Bb1 can no longer be played with the extension in place, but thems the breaks, folks. If you'd like to print it yourself, here's the file on Thingiverse:<div><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4900915">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4900915</a><br /><p><br /></p></div>youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-23692840520061085142020-04-14T21:01:00.001-07:002020-04-14T21:01:24.122-07:00QuarantuneThere's a pandemic on, so we're all staying home, compulsively washing hands, watching too much news, and realizing we touch our faces waaaaay too much.<br />
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Drums, synth bass, and duophonic synth are all from the modular synthesizer I've built over the past few years. Also included are guitar and vocals. youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-35546174482422324532019-11-10T09:40:00.004-08:002019-11-10T09:40:50.050-08:00ParaphonieIt's a nice fall Sunday morning. I built a vaguely organ-like paraphonic patch on my modular synth with Yarns, Jove, Peaks, and Shelves modules. Here it is:<br />
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Sorry for the months of neglect. In 2017 I managed to sell a bunch of old equipment and buy a bunch of new stuff, including a beautiful grand piano. Here I'm playing it while singing one of my favorite Ben Folds songs after a lazy New Year's day. <br />
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youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-69011086428362327212016-09-21T19:42:00.001-07:002016-09-21T19:44:52.958-07:00EIGHTIESI collect musical instruments. Okay, maybe "hoard" is a better word. They just fascinate me. Music is such a curious thing. It's a language with no obvious practical purpose, but one that so many people learn to understand, even if they never speak it. And instruments are where physics, engineering, and human expression all come together to make it happen. Growing up I learned to fix instruments since new ones were too expensive. Along the way, though, I developed a love for old, loved, abused, anachronistic, out of the ordinary instruments. Someone had them before me. What music was played on them? What music is left in them? How did people make tools for musical expression before computers? Before transistors? Before electricity? I've got a timeline of instruments from the past hundred years that answer those questions.<br />
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Anyway, I end up bringing home strays more often than I probably should. A month ago I got an old, broken Korg DW-6000 synthesizer from someone for $5. It looks like a cheap toy keyboard, but it's got golden guts. An hour a another $5 for parts were enough to bring it back to life. I had thought that I'd fix it up and sell it quickly to get money for a microphone or some other equipment, but now that I've played it I think it may have to stick around in my musical instrument retirement home. Here's a recording with all of the parts played on the DW-6000 (except for some percussion on a box drum):<br />
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I thought it would be fun to take the old jazz piano theme from Peanuts, "Linus and Lucy", and grind it out on a distorted guitar. A google image search revealed that I'm not the first to imagine a punk rock Charlie Brown:<br />
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Later I saw recordings of their unreal performances. First of all, there are about a zillion people on stage. There's definitely a tight rhythm section and some horns. Then there are a bunch of backup singers. But beyond that there are people in wild costumes running around and dancing. It's not really choreographed, though. It's like the audience bought tickets to come and watch the wildest house party imaginable. Finally, there's George Clinton himself: wearing a white tux, enormous blonde wig, ski goggles, and a dapper cane. He's the center of everything, but he's not really a lead singer. Sure, he yells and sings periodically, but there aren't really verses and choruses the way that we usually expect. He's there dancing, possibly directing, but mostly just being the soul of the whole performance. <br />
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I wondered if I could make one of their tunes stand up with a very different set of instrumentation. Bassoon, banjo, and melodica could cover the parts normally played by bass, guitar, and synthesizer. Would such a hokey set of instruments bleed all the soul out of the tune or would it still work? It was a bunch of fun to put together and turned out a bit better than expected:<br />
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I initially imagined "The Farmer And Adele"'s cover of "Hello" with a full bluegrass band and vocal harmony, but the mics, interface, and other goodies are all sealed up in boxes. Instead you get me trying to sing in a country voice while strumming a country two-step. By the end it descends into falsetto purgatory. Maybe Adele's producer was right not to pursue this genre.<br />
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Tonight I dug a guitar out of the heap, though, and played some. Here's a simple song by Wilco that talks about how disasters are inevitable, but life continues (not that moving qualifies as a disaster :), it's just what I felt like playing).</div>
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</script>youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-36184066493826884942015-11-29T20:11:00.001-08:002015-11-29T20:11:22.713-08:00Through the cracks...I found a couple of instrumental tracks that I had recorded over the last month or two but had failed to post. They're weird, y'all, but you've probably come to expect that from OFDM.<br />
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Here's an electronic misrepresentation of "Do, Re, Mi" from <i>The Sound of Music</i>.<br />
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And the delicately named "Dismemberment No. 1 in b minor":<br />
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<br />youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16021733074164741435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2601722297566140635.post-61058444102627254112015-11-29T20:02:00.005-08:002015-11-29T20:02:56.226-08:00Live music!I'm blessed to go to church with a bunch of musically talented people. We put together a concert of American folk, jazz, and theater music for the community last week and people actually came! And had fun! Here are a couple of recordings from the night. Mallory Nuzman's singing with Jenny Webb on piano, John Brady on bass, and myself on guitar.<br />
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I got to do a solo piece on guitar as well:<br />
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The rest of the excellent performances from the evening are <a href="https://soundcloud.com/madisonthirdmusic" target="_blank">here</a>. Sharing music online is fun, but live music is a blast! <br />
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Tonight I broke in a new synthesizer module I make a couple of days ago by using it to abuse a lovely Brazilian folk song performed by Luciana Souza:<br />
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