Handmade Electronic Music

This section is the soul of Handmade Electronic Music. What is the value of any of the technical information if it can't contribute to beautiful sounds, beautiful objects and beautiful communities? Eighteen artists from around the globe consented to write about their scenes and specialties. I've also included modest updates of two short sidebar essays I wrote for the first edition of the book, back in 2006 (Circuit Bending and Visual Music), as well as an overview of the hacking scene in 2009 that served as the concluding chapter of the second edition (The Future Is Now) -- all removed from the current edition to make room for newer things.

While waiting for Routledge's designers to complete the official website I've made simple pdfs of these essays with their images embedded. I apologize for my complete lack of design sense, but the content remains vital. And a warning: the pdfs are big and don't load instantly, mea culpa.

Do It With Others: Hardware Hacking in South America
Florencia Curci, Alma Laprida and Sebastián Rey

Hacer con Otrxs: Hardware Hacking en Sudamérica
Florencia Curci, Alma Laprida and Sebastián Rey
Original Spanish version of Do It With Others

Bleep Listening
Ezra Teboul

A History of Japanese Hacking and DIY Music
ADACHI Tomomi

(Original Japanese language version of A History of Japanese Hacking and DIY Music)
ADACHI Tomomi

Livening Things Up: Australian Hand-Built Electronic Instruments
Caleb Kelly and Pia van Gelder

Gambioluthiery: Hacking and DIY in Brazil
Giuliano Obici

A Brief Personal History of dorkbot-nyc
Douglas Repetto

The Contact Microphone: A Cultural Object
Daniela Fantechi
(Some formatting errors in the footnotes, sorry!)

David Tudor
You Nakai and Michael Johnsen

Pixel Artists
LoVid and Jon Satrom
(Embedded artist links inactive, pdf problems, sorry!)

Circuit Board As Design
Eduardo Rosario

Circuit Bending (2006)
Nicolas Collins

Visual Music (2006)
Nicolas Collins

The Future Was Then (2009)
Nicolas Collins
(This version is a scan of the concluding chapter from second edition of Handmade Electronic Music, 2009.)