fun with piezo

.forum - week two.

Learning to solder was going great, until on the last weld I burnt my finger. ƒΩçK!!

From there I had a bit of a play with a piezo mic (or speaker if you catch them on a saturday night). The great thing about these is you can throw them about like a cheap whore - just like you'd normally do to university microphones. Haha that's a joke just for you Christian (you read these right?)

Anyway, I tried a number of different way of using the piezo as a sort of 'contact' mic to try and catch sound vibrations out of water. Toward this goal, I filled my lunchbox with water and put a layer of glad-wrap over the top. I tried swishing the water around but it just did not achieve the sound I was after. Then I had the idea of putting my iPod headphones onto the glad-wrap - to see how traveling through water would alter the sound of .. Parkway Drive as the case was.

parkwaywater.m4a (792 kB)

I must confess this is simply a reenactment of the way it went, I actually recorded the setup much further back from my laptop, so to avoid spill from the headphones into the laptop mic. After accidentally getting my headphones, the piezo and my iPod wet I figured I would just mess around with the little mic to see what sounds (nay, noise art!) I could come up with. The result was entitled i need take a piezo bad (584 kB)

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Haines, Christian some time last week i rekon it was "Welding and fondling the electro-bits," EMew! Aderaide University... You know the one on North Terrace. NO~ not the the cool looking one next to Fowlers, the one further up where all the ugly kids get off the bus