I Am Writing Music for a SAWA Ambulance Pozible Campaign

I am writing an EP exclusively for this fundraiser, so be sure to chip in! More info in the link below. 

"Latifa says that a second hand ambulance, fully equipped with a life support system, can be bought in Kabul for around $12,000. Can you help me to raise that amount, so that SAWA-Australia can buy Hamoon Clinic a new ambulance? The people of Afghanistan and I will be forever grateful for your help. On behalf of the women of Farah province, thank you!

We need a few dollars to cover the expenses of the crown funding drive, so the total amount I am asking is $12,500."

http://www.pozible.com/project/175813

Wooden Surfaces for Monitor / Speaker Stands

Rack Ears / Rack Mounts for Mackie 1640 Mixer

Rack ears for the Mackie 1640 are impossible to find. Here is a pragmatic solution. Thanks to my dad for his help!

Simple Prototype for a Elevator Position Display

My dad wants to add an elevator position display LED pair to his home. We will use a laser beam that, when interrupted, changes an LED to on and another to off - vice versa for when the beam is non-interrupted. There are plenty of ways that this could have been done, but I chose a super simple route - an LDR --> voltage divider --> hex logic inverter --> LEDs. The prototype works.

Science, Civilization and Society: A History of Interaction and Interdependence

Tomczak Sr. has written a book about this history of science and civilisation, titled "Science, Civilization and Society: A History of Interaction and Interdependence". A massive undertaking, this highly detailed work represents years of research that has culminated not only in a book but also in an interactive timeline (link coming soon).

You can get the book on Amazon, for example.

Tomczak Sr / Tomczak Jr

I have been working on various ways of pseudo-sonifying 19 channels of data from a South Australian meteorological / oceanographic buoy into relatively musical-sounding material.

The buoy is a major project that my dad and Miguel Gil Coto have been working on in recent years.

You can hear some preliminary results here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=UGAqOnniNKk.

All 19 channels are used in this example, however some are more subtle than others in terms of how they are controlling musical or instrument parameters. One of the channels is used for rhythmic elements.

The music is completely predetermined and relies completely on the data for rhythmic structure and pitch elements as well as all volume, spatial, envelope and timbral changes.

The majority of channels are normalised and converted into 7 bit MIDI control data. Some channels are routed to more than one control parameter. Four channels generate musical data using changes in the data.

Here is the patch. It is "a little" messy. But hey, it gets the job done.