Hate Box: Soundwalk 2005
Photomaphone based puppet show enacting the ancient creation/apocalypse myth Prometheus & Pandora..

God gave technology to man. Man misused it.
Rinse.
Repeat.

the logic - "Neptune strikes."
Silent G - "We almost had the fame we desire. Almost."

Radio Graffiti:
Remote radio piracy drones block out the AM band with custom theremin songs.

Public communication brings power to the unorganized, it allows commands and declarations to be issued to the friends and the enemies alike. What organizations can take away, public communication can take back.

the logic - "Remind those against you what to fear."
Silent G - "It's time we take back the ether."

Moxophone:
A suspended matrix of 20 smoke sensing audio output devices.

Ever wonder how your smoke detector knows when its time to sound the alarm? We did, and now we have a 20-voiced square wave smoke chime to terrorize your girl scout s'more fest. Throw your lighters up because this one is going out to the ladies...

the logic - "Spin the smoke of ashen rodents into notes"
Silent G - "Front row seat for music's cremation."

Photomaphone:
7 proximate phototheremins in Lego spaceship housings.

Light is energy, energy is data. With little more than a photoresistor and a speaker, one can make a simple phototheramin. Then you are just a flashlight and a flick of the wrist away from a brain-melting symphony.

the logic - "The sun makes shoegaze drone, freeway traffic births minimalist scatter and pop, dancefloor lights make techno freakouts. Man makes music."
Silent G - "God Damn."

Acid Rain Stick:
A galvanized steel tube jammed with chain, shot, and nails.

Build, In the tradition of the Juha shaman, a rainstick to harness the calming power of nature, weilding it to feel empowered over our own turmoil.

the logic - "Forest hippie forest, forest faux-native-American bullshit hippie forest. Bullshit forest."
Silent G - "In the distance, a child is crying."

Upcoming Projects

World's Largest Band

We have developed a java program that reads HTML as MIDI music. We have thereby created the World's Largest Band. Anyone who has ever created a webpage that has been played by this program has unwittingly created a song for the band. You might already be in the band, and if you aren't you will be soon.

The program functions by creating loops out of any instance of a tag type that has an opening and closing tag (table, tr, td, font, p, etc) and plays the loop from the time the tag is opened until the tag is closed, as the program works its way through the HTML. Tags nested in these looping tags are then played as differenct voices, and may themselves be new, layered loops. Some special indicators inside tags, such as widths and colors, will trigger such events as beat drops and chord changes. The result is usually somewhat hypnotic, but always unique to a given page and always better than the stuff you hear on the radio. And those people started with music in the first place.

We are still working on the web interface for the program, but until then there are some sample pages that we have translated on the files page.

3D Record Player

Fascinated by the fetishizing of LPs as objects in themselves, we set out to make the ultimate collectable record and a grammaphone to record and play it on. While our efforts are valiant, we doubt the spherical record will catch on with many DJs as it takes up as much room as a kick ball and weighs more than a human head.

One of our most ambitious recent projects. It looks like a piano, but tastes like an exercise in needless difficulty in creating music.