alloverthewhere dot org

i just did some crappy ach tee am elling to get the all over the where site back up again. i definitely spent wayyy to long trying to get that color fade.

i also finally got the glitch hikers guide to the galaxy up on the vvvvvv.
as i say on aotw i suck at graphic design and html and didnt know how to present it in a easy user friendly way. it ended up being a 950kb file that is 800 pixels tall and you scroll sideways to see. if you know of a better way to present it so people can actually use it please let me know. anyways, hurrah for the free exchange of information and sharing of ideas. it really does make my heart glow happiness when i see soldering irons on peoples desks and circuit boards strewn about.

oh, and on oct 28 is the international circuit bending challenge. im doing it, who else is in? if we work together, it will be better!

Experience the Sweetness Feel to Flying the Music Sea!

I bought a new toy guitar that wants to remind everyone of the sweetness feel to flying the music sea. Also, I performed live on stage with the Hero guitar this weekend! It was awesome. The Korean crowd was diggin' it. A video will be up soon.

Glitch Suit

Here are some video experiments/sketches I did a few days ago. These are just the first tests, there will be more to come, hopefully with better content. All the footage is from past projects I had lying around, just recycling old videos. The dancing thing I do apologize for cause I look like an ass but that was point of that particular project. I was doing a reinterpretation or response to The Perfect Human and as seen from the The Five Obstructions. I filmed the head torso and legs of myself dancing and had them on three stacked tvs so it was life size. Anyway, my eventual goal for this idea is to have all the original footage replaced with keyed out videos. Posterize the video into 4 colors, photoshop each frame four times (once for each color) to create a mask for each color and then re composite them back together so every color is now replaced by a different video. Sorta like animating with multiple layers of videos. Kinda hard to explain but once I photoshop a few thousand frames youll get to see the final result.

the white version with one layer (black) keyed out



The glitch version with two layers keyed out


oh and the song in the white one is crystal castles "February" and the other song is professor murder "free stress test"

check youtube.com/alloverthewhere for more videos and descriptions.

Katamari Chorus

While searching for images to make Colins Katamari Damacy themed chorus pedal, titled Katamari Chorus or King of All Chorus here are some interesting things I found.

a top 5 list

a New Criticism (Marxist, Post-Structuralist, Feminist, etc) critique of Katamari Damacy. Part 2, Part 3.

a nice quote from the games creator Keita Takahashi:

'Everyday life is full of many fun and stimulating things. The feeling of just riding a bicycle or the sensation of sand on bare feet when you walk along a beach […] the happy feeling you get when you just decide to skip, or the increase in heartbeat when you decide to stop in the middle of a road crossing. You couldn’t really say that they're punk rock things, but all of them are stimulating, and all of them help to make you realize that everyday life can be quite fun as well. Things like these have ended up making me think that you don't necessarily need games to have fun, and you possibly don't even need games at all,' (2005)

and an amazing croquet pattern to create your own little prince.

act now while supplies last

Go to Jeffrey Thompsons ArtForum Ad Project and buy yourself a 3/16' inch of real estate. Also, tell your 3,900 friends they can buy a square as well.

soots

wish i could wear this to the parade

Colab got its website up!

http://colab-arts.org/

fiffe created it and its looks amazing, so go check it out if your wandering around the world wide interweb anytime soon.

Eel on Hold

because it is so hard to hold on.

reel to reel stereo tape recorder archeology

or sketches with a tape recorder
or tape recorder reconfiguration remix
or How To Remix A Tape Recorder

start out frustrated (see previous post)
get archaeological
take apart tape recorder
save every screw, washer, nut, plastic, metal piece possible
salvage as many electronic components as possible
think about all the other metal parts in the machine
wonder what you can do with them
think about tim hawkinson, tom friedman, and dieter roth
try to dissasemble entire apparatus and cataloge each part
or reconstruct the entire tape machine inside out
get frustrated again with metal dust, stripped screws, grease, and cuts
drop that idea and salvage what metal pieces you can
layout all metal pieces, screws, and assorted gears
take parts and reconfigure them, using only parts from the machine, into new things
tiny sculpture thoughts, three dimensional drawings, purely aesthetic/design oriented thinking
document
take apart sculptures and re-reconfigure them to make new ones
add rare earth magnets for extra fun
put in box
clean up
blog
go to sleep


in the beginning


looks like a face


guts in a box


guts out of the box


magnet and screws


again, magnet and screws


the last one, magnet and screw person


random reconfiguration


random reconfiguration


random reconfiguration

there are a few more but im really tired and my camera sucks so i will post them later. i really like playing with the rare earth magnets and the screws. i really do enjoy making small things, robots, objects, whatever. and using magnets could be a lot of fun.

car ant lee and a quest john

currently



and seriously, WHOS GONNA MAKE THIS HAPPEN????

colins last bend in the brunz - syn(th)ister

this was a keyboard colin was holding on to for a while. as is the nature of so many of the weird objects lying around our old apartment, we dont know where it came from. maybe we found it, or maybe it found us. in the last few days we were in new brunswick colin bent it into a crazy howling monster of a keyboard. there wasnt much to find in terms of glitch but after experimenting with the amplification circuit, colin hit feedback gold. the thing sounds absolutely sinister with a distortion/overdrive pot, and a harshasfuck feedback switch. there is also a glitch button but that ended up being as useful as an appendix. the video is of colin playing a lil ditty on our ol'back porch.

assholes

why do people throw out awesome old electronics like this stero tape recorder and tape deck and CUT OFF THE POWER CHORDS??!?!! this is the third time this has happened to me. the feeling undeniable joy from a great find during a midnight bulk waste run, and the subsequent crushed hopes and dreams of a cut power chord. makes me want to throw this tape deck through their frickin window! is there some sort of unwritten rule of homeowner assholes that says before you throw out tvs, vcrs, audio equipment, or anything else of potential value, that you have to ruin it and make sure no one else can use it??? so selfish! so frustrating! is there a way to fix this without electrocuting myself or creating a fire hazard? how can we raise public awareness about the importance and simple joys of trash picking. so many questions...i must make a psa.

SLURRKIT BLENT UNSTROWMUNTS

the workshop last night went pretty well. it was a small group of 5 so everyone got a toy from my stash to bend and it kept the group to a manageable size for me. everyone got to go home with a finished bentstrument toy. except olchar (sorry!) who experienced the dark half of the glamorous life of circuit bending - failure and frustration. although it was totally not his fault, crappy keyboards and stripped screws are the bane of any bender. last night was when i acutely realized no one else knows circuits like colin LBJ challender (the LBJ stands for Lyndon B. Johnson {the B stands for Baines}). **cue violins** and not only is his friendship dearly missed but his technically expertise and enthusiasm for the art of circuit bending. damn you south korea! anyways here are some photos


the set up - soldering irons, solder, wire strippers, wire, strippers, safety glasses, glasses, alligator clips, alligators, assorted screw drivers, glitch hikers guide the galaxy #1, and electric animals go sleepy bye-byes and other byoots


all hands hard at work


warren added a photocell to this dollar store keyboard that i seriously must have been holding onto for 2 years. it comes with a fan and im glad it has finally been put to good use.



jen took the toy i wanted to bend, but because she did such a good job ill let her keep it....for now. she added a pitch pot to the drum toy, bringing its total octave range from shrill headache to mechanical whale.

not pictured was lnys awesome bend of a pink glittery cell phone toy i got from a cvs a while ago, and philippes bending of the pink beeper that came with it.


this is warren and lenny making some noise with their bent toys

vvvvorkshop

ill be giving a vvvvorkshop on circuit bending today at space ii iiii iv (234 raritan ave highland park nj). bring toys, instruments, and cassette tape players if you want help hacking them. ill be giving out copies of a zine colin and i made about circuit bending basics and will try to hit up a good will or tuesday morning before the workshop so i can provide some toys for people. see you there.

h i t e c h l o w t e c h ! ! ! 1 ! 1 1

all this weekend check the up to date awesomeness

Mass Ive Up Date

In the world right now:
El Colin in El Korea (SOUTH Korea)
Being awesome by the Pacific
Check his blog--> KoreanColin.blogspot.com

I am residing at home in Montclair NJ
Here is a cheapanorama of my room turned studio.

It used to be covered in magazine pictures and other angst ridden teenage memorabilia and is now a nice white so I can start to put new crap on it.

I am working for a public access television station Montclair34 and will hopefully soon be assistant station manager for South Orange Maple Wood TV as well.
In a month or so I will be making a TV SHOW which will air locally. If you have any video that would like to see on TV...well technically you can only see it on TV if you live in Montclair, so more realistically, if you have any video that you want to tell people was on TV, send me an email and I will send you the details.

Earlier this month Co-Lab threw Resonate, which had to be one of the biggest, most legit, and fun events in recent memory. Visual art, poetry, 2 bands (Tin Kitchen and The Assistant Principals), 2 kegs, CAKE!!!!, and 250+ plus people all in the beautifully lit backyard scenery of New Brunswick.

Me and Doug did live projections for the bands as a warm up for our gig for Natural Breakdowns record release party at the Cross Roads theater. That show was amazing and given that we had one weeks notice, went down without a hitch. The two main photos on their site show our work in the background. Will have some clips of that up on the interweb shortly. Doug is a VJ genius working video alchemy on the constant, so were going to start doing projection gigs as much as we can. If you want something beautiful psychedelic and smart behind your band or at your event please contact Invisible Visuals by emailing me or Doug O'Neil.

This Thursday check out the opening of a show LNY is curating at Sarah Wellingtons gallery Space II III IV called
High Tech Low Tech.

Thats it for now. Massive change is happening all around. Adjustments are being made and updates will be on the regular now.

A Goldenchild in Troubled Times

A composition for the first bend I finished on a keyboard.
The Casio SA-35 was my first musical instrument when I was young. I didn't really get any other instruments, aside from toy drums. I kept it with me all through my life and then I met Reid, who taught me how to make things awesome. The first SA-35 died in the basement of 88-B in a tragic short circuiting, but not before showing us the glorious potential locked inside. Lovechild was made weeks later after a lucky Ebay find. Lovechild went down after an outdoor performance at Demarest but its guts were transfered to what is now, the near-invincible Goldenchild, half machine, half god. Later, me and reid discovered that the way we bent this thing should have killed it for good, but it lives on, like a phoenix out of the ashes, it will never die... we love it too much to give it up.

Meet "My Maker"

This is the "My Maker" guitar. The minimal aesthetic and sonic changes to it have ascended it from the realm of mere mortals into the hallowed halls of the gods.

The extended pot knob remains bare to create a whammy bar effect through body contact. Its main purpose is a pitch bend that can turn this tiny toy guitar into a powerful bass guitar or slide guitar in on simple turn. There are three other body contacts extending out of the guitar, near the pot for playability purposes, that create a number of effects from simple pitch bends, to crunchy sound mods and even some weird screaming that sounds like the soul of an electric dog burning in a sea of flaming cats.



You can here one of its many godly choruses in "The New Shoes Song" here

This guitar was one of the first truly amazing instruments we finished and it inspired some of the pieces shown earlier in the blog.

CCuurreenntt EEvveennttss

It is always important to keep your workspace clean and organized.