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Electronic Music from Scratch is a complete crash course in the joys of musical circuitry. Taking inspiration from famous instruments in electronic music history, this guide shows readers how to create dozens of whimsical, unexpected, and incredibly usable musical instruments.
Create oscillators that compose their own melodies based on candle flickers, cassette players with keyboard attachments, a talkbox for scaring younger relatives, and so, so much more.
Written with total beginners in mind, Electronic Music from Scratch will take readers on a journey through music history and lead them to discover sounds they didn't even know existed.
About the Author
Kirk Pearson is the founder and creative director of Dogbotic, a Bay Area-based audio laboratory where creative-driven inquiry meets inquiry-driven creativity.
A composer and artist, Kirk has written music, built installations, and designed experiences for the New Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Switzerland's Museum für Kommunikation Bern, and for hundreds of films, stage productions, and new media projects.
In 2017, Kirk was named a recipient of the Thomas Watson Fellowship, through which they spent a year traveling the world composing works for experimental instruments. Kirk lives in Berkeley, California.
