on Spring-O-Caster Electo Tennis Racquet !
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OrgyOfNoise.com
PS... HAPPY X-DAY !
Sunday, July 05, 2009
TENNIS ANYONE ?
on Spring-O-Caster Electo Tennis Racquet !
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PS... HAPPY X-DAY !
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
SEE VIDEO of Zonkulator Oscilloscope Circuit Bent Robot Theremin Synth Fun by ORGY OF NOISE = Bill T Miller
CLICK on VIDEO and IMAGES to SEE LARGER VERSIONS
Take a peak into the BTM Vault within Headroom Studios in Boston/Allston. Witness the one and only Bill T Miller tinkering with a circuit bent tron robot plugged into a zonkulator amp oscillator gizmo into a tektronix oscilloscope with bonus red eye tv surveillance lurking.
Have you seen the videos from the ORGY OF NOISE DVD or heard any of the full albums mp3 downloads at: MP3ORGY.com
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
My First Reel-To-Reel Tape Recorders
My Dad had a super hi-fi set-up with a Tandberg stereo tape recorder that his younger brother Bill scored two of in the early 60s. I got to mess around with it and especially remember accidentally threading Jimi Hendrix's "Axis Bold As Love" BACKWARDS and tripping out. I also remember some experimental drone tape with slowed down metal trash can banging, that he brought home in late 60s done by students at the college where he taught chemistry. In the early 70s he gave the Tandberg to me, but I sold it in the late 70s when I lived in California.
Somewhere in around 1967, I got my very own tape recorder. It was a General Electric mono machine that could run on batteries and had a separate microphone built-in microphone. Whatever space I had available (bedroom, garage, living room etc) was my studio. The recorders and all my tapes from both are sadly long gone. A few years ago, I bought the exact same GE recorder in another one of my BTM childhood dream flashbacks.
Then around 1975, I scored a REVOX 77-A Reel to Reel. I really wanted a STUDER multi-track or at the very least one of those 4-track Teac machines, but the Revox popped up on a gently used deal. It has a kool sound on sound feature. (later I found out Robert Fripp was using two of them for his Frippertronics experiments.) I still have that exact ReVox machine today. I even have a few of the original (unreleased tapes) that i transferred into Pro Tools. Since I was freelancing at bigger studios, my ReVox and Strat guitars and my ARP Odyssey were the core of my private studio until the early 80s. Then I scored a Fostex 80-8 8-Track and eventually a Fostex 16-Track and 2-Track.
Still dreaming of owning a STUDER muli-track machine and a NEVE console and mixdown to a half-track 2-track Studer. Same dream I have had since 1975. Would love to have that linked to a deluxe HD Pro Tools rig. Dreams do come true.... sometimes.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
KrautRock Synth Flashback Overload... with Cupcakes.
BTM is deep in a krautrock flashback overload zone while tinkling the ivories of moog/arp synthz and dreaming of an ocean of melted tones of archived madness.... and eating cupcakes. Can you dig it, man?
I scored my first keyboard on my second birthday in 1958 and then eventually a Magnus Chord Organ (when i was in The Electric Onion band) in 1969 and then a Ace Tone Organ in 1971 and then at Arp Odyssey ('74 white panel model) in 1976 and a Roland JX-8P in 1983 and then MOOG Taurus Bass pedals (found in the trash around 1996 at rehearsal complex, which just needed power supply adapter wired in.) Then I started collectin a mountain of Casios and assorted circuit bent toy keyboards and software synths from late 90s onward. Still want more more more.
My Dad had been a hi-fi enthusiast since the late 40s and turned me onto Switched on Bach by Walter Carlos. I also caught snips of theremin and synth sci-fi tweakage on the tube in the late 60s as well. After years of British Invasion and recycled blues and assorted hippie trippy sounds i needed more indulgent sounds with less vocals. I started exploring all those euro prog-ish bands (in all flavors from King Crimson, Hawkwind, Nektar, Gentle Giant to the more obvious, ELP, Yes, Genesis, seeing ALL of them live in concert at some point) starting back when I was teenager around 1970. Somewhere about 1973-74 got turned onto CAN, Amon Duul II, Kraftwerk. But ya know it it really was the portamento glide into that bass resonance on Keith Emerson's Lucky Man solo that I just couldn't get out of my mangus chord organ, that kick-started the quest.
In 1976, I scored my Arp Odyssey and along with my guitar bouncing delay into a Revox A-77 reel to reel I started to create music in that sort of synthy space realm. A few short recordings from that era survived and will be released at some point. I only wish I had recordings my early Electric Onion (68-70 era) solo freak-out guitar verb feedback excursions (and on one weekend I even had a sine wave oscillator, my dad checked out of his lab.) Lost sonic memories.
It took me to until the early 90s to really hear Karlheinz Stockhausen, Einstürzende Neubauten, Holger Czukay solo and eventually re-discovering the golden era of CAN... digging way deep into that space. It wasn't until recently that I got to actually HEAR bands I had HEARD OF forever like, Faust, Neu!, Cluster, Ash Ra Tempel, (early) Tangerine Dream, Conrad Schnitzler, and truly grew to appreciate Producer Conny Plank.
This DVD documentary... Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution was the trigger for my recent excursion.
OK... enough flashback distractions, gotta get back to video editing the ORGY OF NOISE Live in Concert Halloweeny TTs DVD footage.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
HIT SINGLE by ORGY OF NOISE (2nd Set Finale) @ Multimedia Circus @ The Armory on 5.8.09 with THE HUMAN FLOOR
SEE LARGER VERSION of VIDEO on YouTube.
includes full credits and info.
SEE PHOTOS at OrgyOfNoise.com/circus
and here in previous blog posts.
OK, now back to editing the video of Orgy Of Noise at TTs Halloweeny Show for DVD... with bonus studio sessions and a still photo gallery.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Current Mode: Video Editing ORGY OF NOISE with Final Cut Pro
Stay tuned for HIT SINGLE video clip from second set and eventually (?) a full DVD of the Multimedia Circus show with bonus studio session videos and still photo galleries. Right after the HIT SINGLE VID is released, I am going back to finish up the editing for the TT's Halloween show DVD and then get back to the OON Circus DVD. Then much later edit the Cyberarts, Bunny Brunch, Lizard Lounge, Strange Maine, and Noise Night gigs. At least that's THE PLAN.Sunday, June 07, 2009
MMMMM.... CAMPARI !
Trying to convince my brain and stomach that these campari tomatoes are as good as cookies and bananas are as good as ice cream and apples are better than cake... and orange juice is like a chocolate milkshake and avocado is like pecan pie and humus is like... well you get the idea. Kinda working.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Polly Jean Harvey and John Parish @ HOB Boston on 6.6.09
See more photos by Kelly Davidson from THAT show.
Flashback to PJ 2004
See more photos by Sheri Hausey from THAT show.
I have been lucky enough to see PJ three times. All three were on the same stage. First time was at Avalon in Boston on 2.11.98. I have no snapshotss, but here's the set list from that show.
1998-11-02, - AVALON BALLROOM - BOSTON, MA, U.S.A.
Set List- Catherine / Rope Bridge Crossing / Civil War Correspondent / Taut / Joy / Electric Light / A Perfect Day Elise / Hook / Meet Ze Monsta / My Beautiful Leah / City Of No Sun / Angelene / Missed / Joe / Snake. Encore#1- Heela / Is This Desire?. Encore#2- The Garden / The Sky Lit Up / To Bring You My Love.
I wish I could have seen her during the RID OF ME era. Her Man-size video and her solo appearance playing Lick My Thighs and being interviewed on Jay Leno's Tonight(93) back then are still among my favorite PJ highlights.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Thursday, June 04, 2009
NIN 6.3.09 - Wave Goodbye NIN/JA Tour
Trent allowed audience video and still camera access to fans, so there are tons of great photos online. See pix of 6.3.09 @ NIN.com.
Flashback to NIN 2005
First saw NIN on Pretty Hate Machine Tour at Axis Club in Boston and caught many shows since then. ALL were TOP NOTCH.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
ME and MY TRONBOT are gonna be JAMMIN' at NOISE NIGHT THIS THURSDAY 5.28.09
I plan on hooking my Circuit Bent TronBot, Creepy Cave Crab (photocell oscillator overload gizmo made by JPR) and my Mini-Kaoss Pad to JAM OUT with Wayne Wylupski and Jimmie P Rodgers and the rest of YOU at NOISE NIGHT, THIS THURSDAY MAY 28th.
7PM @ Willoughby and Baltic (the new space)
13 Joy Street, Union Square, Somerville, MA
Come on down for some FREE FUN.
NoiseNight.com
Photo (above) Shot by Sheri Hausey @ International Noise Conference
Poster Toon Images Designed by Jeff Chenette
That's ME (Bill T Miller) as King Penguin on Bent Toy Robot, Jimmie P Rodgers as the Rockin' Bear on Bent Toy Guitar and Wayne Wylupski as the Wise Owl on Bent Micro Jammer Toy Trumpet and as YOU (?) as the Flying Monkey on Bent Toy Voice Transformer. (At least that's my take on it all.)
CLICK on IMAGES/PHOTOS to SEE LARGER VERSIONS
+ see hear more ORGY OF NOISE at: OrgyOfNoise.com
+ check out BTM Bent Toy Collection at: CircuitBending.com
* UPDATE *
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Back from super duper NOISE NIGHT JAM at the new 9000 square foot
Willoughy and Baltic space.... FUN FUN FUN !!!
REMEMBER.... CLICK on IMAGES/PHOTOS to SEE LARGER VERSIONS
Mitchel Ahern & Ted Read
Bill T Miller
Wayne Wylupski & Jimmie P Rodgers
Photos Snapped by Bill T Miller & Wayne Wylupski & Varun Mehta
Monday, May 25, 2009
DOWNLOAD SIX ORGY OF NOISE CDs for FREE !
* Live Bent
* Noise & Toys & Ice Cream
* Noodle Braino
* Inside Outsider
* Squasher
CLICK HERE
to go to MP3 DOWNLOAD page at MP3ORGY.com.
OrgyOfNoise.com
Sunday, May 24, 2009
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