I’m taking the infamous Hardware Hacking class with Nicholas Collins, author of the book Handmade Electronic Music. So far, we’ve gone over speakers, radios, tape players, and circuit bending. Last week we made simple oscillators out of hex schmidtt triggers.

The class is a blast. I commented to Robb Drinkwater the other day that I now want to take a part everything and listen to what it does. He gave me a nod, a nod which he has probably given to numerous past students who have taken the class. Probably a lot of other people as well because before it was even a class Nic was doing workshops on the subject…

in the USA and Europe, including at The Watershed (Bristol, UK), University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK), Sonic Arts Research Centre (Belfast, UK), BENT 2004 (NYC), STEIM (Amsterdam), x-med-k (Brussels), Mills College (Oakland, CA), California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, CA), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (Zurich), Harvestworks (NYC), T-U-B-E (München), and the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing).