The source of this series of scanned images is a notebook I used for a few months between 2007 - 2008. As with many artists, my notebook is the first place, sometimes the only place, outside my head where fleeting, half-baked and harebrained ideas exist in some form. Keeping a record of charts, shopping lists, formulas, tables and schematics is integral to tracking information and archiving experiments when self-teaching and tinkering with electronics. During this period I was: trying to memorize important unit conversions and code (capacitance, analogue vs. linear variable resistance, Morse code to name a few), discovering the fuzzy and leaky qualities of vintage transistors while building white noise generators, and charting the relationships between oddball antenna configurations and whistling sounds on my AM radio as empirically as possible. As with most documentation not intended for public view, my notebooks are riddled with errors, accidental omissions and cringe-worthy hypotheses. Although my notebooks are full of unpolished content, abbreviations and cryptic shorthand that may only really make sense to me, I think they can provide insight about some of the processes, steps and problem solving that goes into the development of DIY electronic works before they are experienced in a presentable form. |
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