Another Eyebeam-er, fellow Kaho Abe, lent me this book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (2nd Ed) by Nicolas Collins after we talked about her upcoming potato orchestra workshop. She uses potatoes to generate enough power to a tiny piezo-buzzer. I realized I had completely overlooked food in my book chapter on power, so am now adding in some stuff from this book. Nicolas goes over using potatoes and fruit to power handmade electronic instruments, and has a list of Rules of Hacking – one of which I thought was particularly funny:

Rule #17: If it sounds good and doesn’t smoke, don’t worry if you don’t understand it

On an “it’s a small world” note, I’ve found two pictures in the book so far featuring work from former students of mine at NYU: Speaker Synth by Lesley Flanigan on pg 280, and Synthinetic by Ithai Benjamin (and Alejandro Abreu).