WinterRoot

Vision Tech for Counter Tech

This spring, Amanda LeClair of WDET, public radio in Detroit, asked me to record a statement on my perspectives on Detroit and electronic music.  Naturally I seized the opportunity to present some of the ideas we work with in the Void Tactical Media project.  As it was part of several pieces by various local electronic musicians, coordinated with the techno festival that takes place downtown, I decided to explore some of the more critical vectors in thinking about technology and our metro area.  It’s my stance that rather than exalting technology, media art has the unique ability to offer valuable critique and nurture a more rounded engagement with science.  The full text follows, along with a link to a pdf of the essay as it as recorded.  Additionally, we’ve got the the new side designed and working for Void Tactical: http://void.fromthegut.org.

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For a long time, I have used the Yamaha rs7000 to make a lot of my music and to play live. One big problem though, is that it doesn’t have enough storage capacity. You can purchase a hard drive, but it’s big and clunky and pain to carry around with you. A while ago I decided to simply put it inside the rs7000 case. A few years have passed and I’ve never had a problem. Read below for more pictures of various stages in the process of modding the gear. It should also be possible run the hard drive off of the internal power supply instead of putting another one inside the case, but I haven’t found the right adapters yet to do so.

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