Acoustic levitation!

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Petition to blacklist snorers from hostels. Or give them their own rooms where they can snore in harmony.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

At this point, the word immersive has lost all meaning.

I submitted SPOKE for the MIDI awards. Public voting starts soon (now?). There's at least 4 other projects in the awards of people I know and who also deserve to be recognised. So, you know, vote for who you think should win :) midi.org/innovation-a...

Making music from mud! Blowing bubbles with a small air pump, and resonating the sound (from a hydrophone) in Ableton.

Squeaky gate ambient drone 🗿

I think *fake podcast* might just be my most hated advert format. So much grifting.

Audio to midi to solenoid 🤩

Low tide on the river Colne, Colchester. A carpet of Trolleys, bikes, cones, road signs lining the bottom of the river.

Midi bubbles! Playing with my new midi to motors PCB. Now I can control solenoids, motors and even an air pump with Ableton 🤩

Circuit bending the Casio SK1. It’s now a fun improv drum machine!?

My running route took me through the bagpipe festival in Colchester’s lower castle park. A beautiful cacophony!

Petition to ban voice notes longer than 10s. I do not want to listen to your monologue. Collect your thoughts and write them down. Please 😩

Recording lightning with my solar panel microphone. Dramatic cracks and pops! Each flash of light generates an electrical output from the solar cell, which is connected directly to an audio output.

West Ham, forever snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

BIG BIRD WHISTLE!

Can any twitchers identify this? It’s birdsong was so loud!

Reverse listening headphones! I’ve been working on some science of sound teaching resources and made these 🎧

Why on earth are ITV using the Live Love Laugh font for their #6nations coverage 🤢

Did you know you can use a solar cell to listen to light? 💡 🔊

Strobing LEDs at audio rate to make a synth from light 💡 This project uses a teensyLC and a custom version of my Photon Smasher mic:

Ran a podcast workshop in an acoustically cavernous room this week, so built this very diy vocal booth and the results were surprisingly decent!

Two “voice” synth made using strobing LEDs (TeensyLC) shining at a solar cell. I’ve got a third LED shining at an LDR in series on the output of the solar cell, creating a gate-like effect. Would love to add midi and/or CV control for pitch and gate next!

I absolutely love what I do. Giving young musicians confidence, opportunity and skills to be the best versions of themselves. Heres a mini documenatry from CLIP’s (my music non-profit) birthday gig last December. youtu.be/5JoGTgAVAd4?...

Putting recordings of lights through a vocoder! I’ve been exploring new ways to use photon smasher recordings and using them as triggers, or sidechain sources, has been fruitful. Here’s a recording from Hiroshima, Japan.

The Pre-Launch for my kickstarter is now live. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomfox/spoke-touch-sensing-made-simple It is a new type of touchboard that has 27 inputs, can control MIDI or act as a HID. With neopixel indicators for each pin and connectors for i2c peripherals.

New toy! Now I can make my own filament 🤩 excited for some litter picking fueled 3D printing ♻️

#fieldrecording prevents space madness. (Source: “A City on Mars”)

I'm familiar with flexible PCBs, but has anyone tried to make a living hinge PCB? It's possible with plywood/mdf and even acrylic. What about a composite material like FR4?

I don’t *need* a dodgem car, but I definitely want a dodgem car…

Love Samplr, so much fun to use!

Electronics components vendors in Akihabara, Tokyo. Picked up a bunch of beautiful knobs, buttons and switches for circuit bending projects 🤩

Found this incredible drum pattern in these flashing lights! Recorded with the Photon Smasher microphone, in Hiroshima 🇯🇵

Listening to the lights of Tokyo with my solar panel microphone, the Photon Smasher. So many amazing drones, tones and rhythms!