This Is Book’s Music

Now this is a trip. Thrift stores are piling up with old 3.5 diskettes that no one uses. You’re either using CD-R’s, DVD-R’s, thumbdrives, or external hard drives. The 3.5 diskette is a thing of the past although it served all of our 1.44mb and under needs.

Jeri Ellsworth is a self-taught computer chip designer, and according to her Wikipedia entry, an avid fan of pinball. She is known for taking old media and adapting it into something new, and in this case she uses a diskette to record sounds in an analog fashion. It may be only 15 seconds, and as you’ll see, it creates a kind of reverb that is similar to records that are mastered badly, but it does open up a lot of potential for what could be a cool audio toy for DJ’s and producers.

This is part of a great online show called The Fat Man and Circuit Girl, where she co-hosts the show with George Sanger. If you are a fan of technology, hacks, and using the old and discarded to create something new, I highly recommend this show.

(I should give credit where it is due, I was doing a search for 8-bit music and came across an entry at TrueChipTillDeath.com, and it is where I found this video.)

I have two reviews up and running in the Reviews section at Okayplayer, check them out by clicking to the following links:

Georgia Anne Muldrow presents Ms. One and The Gang
Clutchy Hopkins meets Lord Kenjamin-Music Is My Medicine

Muldrow’s album will be released on May 19th, Hopkins’ album is out now, both can be ordered through CD Universe by clicking the CD icons above.

This is what the album cover will look like for Black Eyed Peas‘ The E.N.D., said to be the last BEP album. It is allegedly a composite of the four members of the group, but why this as the cover? You can find out more by watching this video.