New Toy Bending

Another toy gun hacked into a noisy toy gun (the base is a toy gun bought in a 100yen shop). It seems like it is becoming a series.
No name for this one yet but some pictures:

Inside the gun:

Everything necessary is inside. There is one sound output, one switch for turning the gun on, one body contact area, two pots for tuning the sound. The trigger is used to move mechanical parts inside the gun that cause the sound to change a little bit.

One side of the gun:

And the other side:

Shooter’s view:

The body contact zone and the power switch:

Peluche x Peluche Opening Party

Peluche x Peluche opening party part II (please wait until the whole page is loaded).



[23N! solo with noisy dolls] [23N! solo with laser light gun]
[23N! and Peter Kastner] [Peter Kastner | Shojo no Tomo | 23N! (left to right)]
[Peter Kastner + 23N! (second duo)] [23N!]

thanks to Tomo-chan, Toowa-san and Kazutaka for the pictures.

Trash Times => Trashdance (French)

Ill me semble que j’ai raté le retour de Trash Times sur la toile ! Mieux vaut tard que jamais. Le site s’appelle désormais Trashdance et s’est plus ou moins converti au blog. Reste à espérer le retour du fanzine (un de mes articles que je crois avoir commencer à rédiger il y a trois ans dev(r)ait figurer dans le TT15) !

Electret Mic 3

Preparing my performance at the opening party of Peluche x Peluche, I had to find a way to amplify the sound of the noisy dolls that comes from speakers inside the dolls.
Electret microphones are perfect as only a very simple electric circuit is necessary to power them and the power required can be quite low (1.5V but they support higher voltage for more amplification). Moreover they are very small.
I made a small box for three of these mics (the three black wires). Power supply is only 3V.

Peluche x Peluche

Miou is organizing an exhibition of artists plush dolls at Lovelies Lab starting this Saturday 21 October 2006.
I will perform at the opening party (Saturday 21 October 18:30) with the dolls I made with Shojo no Tomo and may be some other devices. The other performance will be by Peter Kastner of the Trans Industrial Toy Orchestra (TITO) who will perform with his own dolls.
We should do an improvisation duo together.

Chocolatier KitKat

Le Patissier Takagi is really working hard to get us new KitKat.
This time not less than three ingredients : Green Tea, Kinako (soybean flour) and Ume (Plum) in this “Chocolatier” KitKat in a gorgeous package.

Laser Gun

Here my last device for fx.stilte.
It’s once again based on the same sound generator chip I used for the noisy dolls. There are two photoresistors that make the gun produce different sounds depending on the ambient light. The sound output is activated when pulling on the trigger. There are two pots on the top of the gun for setting the sound in addition to the photoresistors. On the back, there is a volume pot and a sound output. The battery that supplies power is inside. The only wire is thus the one for the sound output. Using a headphone, the gun is portable.
The base is a water gun.

The whole gun (photoshop for the logo):

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The two photoresistors:
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The back (volume and sound output):
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Shooter’s view with the two pots:
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Power on LED:
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The electronic is finished but there are some things to improve such as replacing the white tape or put real fx.stilte stickers. I’ll upload some sound samples or a small movie soon.

No Fun Fest Tokyo

Some pictures of the No Fun Fest at Tokyo Uplink Factory on 30 September 2006.
There was a lot of people, certainly because of the presence of Jim O’Rourke, Akita Masami (Merzbow) and Carlos Giffoni on stage. But to be honest, the live was quite disappointing. One hour of noise that sounded sometimes very nice but was quite boring most of the time, I think mainly because the three musicians (they played together) didn’t prepare this show very well and it was more like each of them was doing his own music without caring much about the two others. Well, at this price, I was expecting much more that this kind of onanist noise show.

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