[spectre] * micro_blackdeath ATmega noise with Martin Howse (15th Dec. 2012)

[lists at nkprojekt.de]

15-Dec.-2012
* micro_blackdeath ATmega noise with Martin Howse

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? to bring back to all of us a natural, occult equivalent of the dogma  
we no longer believe.
/[Antonin Artaud]/

The micro_blackdeath is a small, battery operated plague synthesis  
unit, embedding multiple contagion algorithms within AVR  
microcontroller, programmable filter and switched signal paths noise.  
During a one day workshop participants will learn how to construct,  
customise, tweak and play the yersinia pestis.

http://www.1010.co.uk/org/blackdeath.html

Returning the body, electronics, and dystopic code to the earth,  
revived and decoded years later as ?yersinia pestis,? the  
micro_blackdeath marks a new development in virulent open source  
plague computing and audio re-synthesis.

Yersinia pestis is a fully fledged viral computation unit including a  
central plague unit [CPU] acting as interpreter for selected  
instruction sets which operate on the interior cells or  
sound-generating individuals (the simulation of a medieval village  
within the synth). Instruction sets include masque (of the red death,  
courtesy of E.A Poe), brainfuck, redcode, plain plague and SIR  
(susceptible, infected, recovered).

The micro-blackdeath is played like no other synth; although there is  
some degree of direct control, subtle interactions of instruction set  
and plague process over time distinctly alter the sound landscape, the  
medieval village itself played back as direct, physical audio.

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Participants in the workshop will learn how to:

- assemble and solder SMD components

- code, compile and program AVR microcontrollers using free software

- generate complex audio using pulse width modulation, plague  
algorithms, in combination with a programmable filter, and white noise  
generator

Participants will take home a fully functional, custom coded  
micro-blackdeath (yersinia pestis).

Maximum Nr of participants is 12 Minimum is 6. Please preregister by  
sending an email to info at nkprojekt.de with the subj line Black Death

Fee: 45 euros Total =(25? for materials, 20 ? for participation fee).  
Please bring cash with you on the day of the workshop.

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About Instructor: Martin Howse
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/