Music for Drones Week 2: getting some sounds on tape

This is crossposted at stardotstudio. This week we decided to record the drones as they flew by a stand mic. We wanted to get a sense of how they sounded, what specific moves (e.g., fast breaking, rotating on the yaw/…

Music for Drones: Week 1, Learning to Fly

christian.ryan and I, as citation:obsolete, are working on our #musicfordrones project. We received an internal grant from UNCC to purchase four Phantom quadcopter drones, some mics, and other related equipment. This summer we’re beginning the actual work on the project….

Music For Drones: Introduction

[xposted at christian.ryan’s stardotstudio] Drones are trendy. These days, seems like everybody has some use for and/or opinion about them. They’re the subject of a lot of art and literature, too. What if, instead of making art  about drones, we…

Robots, Cyborgs, and the Master/Slave Dialectic

So over on his blog, my partner Christian, who is an artist, has been thinking about the difference between the practice of robot-making and the practice of making cyborg prosthetic devices. Here’s the link to his post, but I”ll reproduce…