Dendriet, Haags netwerk voor electronische muziek

Making electronic circuits is quite complex. There are a lot of books on the subject, and they tend to make it seem easy. You'll find tens of diagrams for easy amplifiers, oscillators and filters. But if you start wiping those together you'll find that these circuits are rather unpredictable. If you make several, you will find they sound totally different. This is because the components differ a lot. A hand full of transistors that should amplify some 100 times, may vary between 50 and 250 times. I bought 200 Ge diodes, they open up between .2 volt and 1.8 volt. So you start making your circuits choosing your components with individually tested parts.
Either this, our you need to expand your circuits enormously in order to cancel out all the difference that the parts have.
So, if you buy ANY analogue gear, you ought to test them all. And professional gear, like a pair of mikes and a mixing console that has egual sounding channels, is expensive as they making and testing involves a lot of handwork.
If you design yourself: there seems to be a saying among electronic engineers: If you want to build an amplifier, build an oscillator, and vice versa. Leon says he regularly designs various silence generators. I have just finished another no-pass filter.

They hang around the block and sell mp3 to the schoolkids.

I have finally put the new version of my homepage online. Okay, I had it ready (the design) for ages, but from today on I am slowly putting the content back online.

Here....
or bullshit-bannerless

And I like it.

Though the BUMA Stemra is the Dutch incasso pitbull for the music industry, they can be really in the way of your individual wishes, that you, as a composer and/or a musician, may have. If you ever want to put your music online, you should not be a member of the BUMA Stemra, because they won't let you do that, or they'll make you pay for it. But then you cannot get the money BUMA Stemra collects for your cd's and airplay.
XS4ALL does not want to get involved anymore with BUMA Stemra members, so becoming a member may be harmfull for your carreer in these modern times. Read more about the XS4ALL vs BUMA case on XS4ALL's festival page, a page that also has a speech by Chuck D about mp3 filesharing available. This is a good "read".
This discussion continues in our comments, where I posted a translation to English of the most interesting paragraphs of the XS4ALL page.

this week's players .....
Jorrit Dijkstra - sax, electronics

Keir Neuringer - saxophone; Juan Sebastian Lach Lau - piano and moog; Carlos Iturralde - guitar; Kate Moore - violoncello; Aslaug Holgersen - doublebass; Tom Tlalim - digital sound generation; Juan Parra - digital sound processing

Overtoom 301, 21.30
entrance 3 euro

RIAA is winning it's customers back! No, just kidding, they are not

And why is the industry complaining about downloading when home baked cdr's are gone within two years? They have a selling point here!

Sony and Bertelsmann are merging, this creates a monster that will control 25% of this world's music industry !!!!!

news about merger (sorry in Dutch)

I have nearly 2000 disks in my livingroom. In kilo's, most of it are LP's. I have storage problems and searching tracks can be difficult. Then there is the hassle with accessability. In practice, it's harder to find a cd track, as the boxes and cd's lately seem to suffer from a divorce wave here.
I do like to listen through my iPod, though. The bottomline is: I'm disked out.
>>> read more in the comments.