Nicolas Collins: Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (2006)

“Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction for students of electronic music, installation and sound-art to the craft of making–as well as creatively cannibalizing–electronic circuits for artistic purposes. Designed for practioners and students of electronic art, it provides a guided tour through the world of electronics, encouraging artists to get to know the inner workings of basic electronic devices so they can creatively use them for their own ends.

Handmade Electronic Music introduces the basic of practical circuitry while instructing the student in basic electronic principles, always from the practical point of view of an artist. It teaches a style of intuitive and sensual experimentation that has been lost in this day of prefabricated electronic musical instruments whose inner workings are not open to experimentation. It encourages artists to transcend their fear of electronic technology to launch themselves into the pleasure of working creatively with all kinds of analog circuitry.”

Publisher Routledge, 2006
ISBN 0415975921, 9780415975926
245 pages

Key terms: photoresistor, resistor, Nicolas Collins, Circuit Bending, David Tudor, David Behrman, breadboard, Alvin Lucier, Phil Archer, Yasunao Tone, tape head, Schmitt Trigger, Integrated Circuit, electronic music, Stephen Vitiello, volts, soldering iron, Radio Shack, electrical tape, oscillator

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