it took me a while to get back to writing an entry for these photos due to some frustrating internet troubles.  sorry about that.

here is one of the first finished drone boxes that i posted about in an earlier dust breeding entry.  it has a 20 second digital voice recorder that is set to loop infinitely  (or until the batteries run out).  these boxes will be placed in a tree in a nearby part as a kind of guerilla sound art installation.  i have about four more to build and then i’ll be ready.

let’s hope they all work out.

years ago before i ever owned a sampler or a laptop, i made all my digital loops using this old boss pedal.  the rv-3 is a reverb + delay pedal that lets you loop using the delay with the feedback turned up all the way… it is pretty much just an infinite repeat that you can keep layering stuff on top of.  if you turn the time knob while it plays back, you get this really choppy/stuttery effect that i really love.  i used it to make a ton of the percussive loops on in a cave or a coma (itunes link).  over the 12+ years that i’ve had it, the rv-3 has gotten noisier and more unpredictable.  i kind of like that about it.

here’s a little track i made just using a baritone ukulele + the rv-3. 

if you are on a machine that doesn’t have flash (like an iphone) you can listen here. otherwise…

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/090527.mp3