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		<title>&#8220;indeterminacy&#8221; in Monteverdi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monteverdi wrote instructions in his &#8220;Sfogava con le stella&#8221; indicating the singers to figure out the rhythm themselves (sort of like sprechstimme).]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/874</link>
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		<title>Interning Currents2010 (video art show) &#8211; a documentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I packed my car and drove from Denton, TX to Santa Fe, NM to help setup Currents2010, a video art gallery open to the public for almost 10 days (June 18-27). During its opening, 2000 people traveled through the free exhibit to see video art from the available 82 artists&#8217; work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/875</link>
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		<title>My next project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I am going to make a video switcher for composite video. I want to switch between multiple video cameras that have composite outputs (using an arduino) and send their signals to my computer so I can manipulate them live with Isadora. Here is the IC I think I&#8217;m going the try &#8211; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/817</link>
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		<title>Jonathan&#8217;s sculpting work on the installation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some photos of Jonathan Snow&#8217;s work so far on Recycled Sound.  He is still going to do more work grinding and adding a clear coat.  He&#8217;s welding in brackets for the motors tonight, so I snapped a few pix. Here is the top (inside) part of the center sculpture that will house the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/806</link>
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		<title>recycled sound setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I will edit this post soon to be more detailed] I am posting my scratchy sketch of the pitches I am using for Recycled Sound. Click on the picture to see a larger version. Branches with two notes means it will alternate between the two pitches (it should should like it is always progressing between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/799</link>
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		<title>soldering and soldering and soldering and . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been doing a great deal of soldering the past week (all day, every day). Here&#8217;s are the arduinos and optoisolated transistor circuits: Next is the main unit for the center sculpture = a unit housing two atmega328 chips (&#8220;two arduinos&#8221;) using the same clocking crystal, two RF transmitters and one digital compass.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>construction of sounds for Recycled Sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures of the construction of the &#8220;sound makers&#8221; for Recycled Sound. I took apart an old set of student bells (used by junior high students learning to play keyboard percussion) and constructed something to hold a motor with a chain attached.  When the motor turns, the chain hits the bell (it sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/784</link>
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		<title>optoisolator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I changed the optoisolator circuit I used in the light-box project I did after doing some more datasheet research for this installation piece.  I&#8217;m just going to post a labeled picture rather than a circuit diagram (due to time).  I&#8217;m also posting a picture of a soldered finished product (with two optoisolators).  This circuit turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/778</link>
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		<title>new batteries!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just bought 12 great batteries (Werker 12V 7.5ah) from BatteriesPlus for only $15/each &#8212; that&#8217;s over half off!  Thank you BatteriesPlus! I&#8217;ll be charging the batteries in parallel using the Schumacher 2/4/6 Speed Charge. I put a picture below of how to charge in parallel (the guy at BatteriesPlus said to think of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benjohansen.com/archives/759</link>
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		<title>burning arduino bootloader with another arduino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burning the arduino bootloader using another arduino duemilanove is very easy. I&#8217;m documenting it here (informally) so I can remember how to do it later. It is all done in the Arduino software (I was using version 0018) 1) upload the example sketch (File-&#62;Examples-&#62;ArduinoISP) to the arduino that has a working bootloader already on it [...]]]></description>
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