WFMU: Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from January 20, 2025

Listener comments!
	5:56pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonposers!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons!
	6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:01pm newton: I made a radio transmitter once, a kit from Tandy Corp in the early 70s
	🤖 6:01pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! All! Ohhww, i love electronic music!
	6:01pm Joey C says: Greetings Mark. it's been a long time. I'm not usually sitting in front of my PC with the ability to text. I'm typically mobile at this time of day. Have a great show. Wellcome all.
	6:02pm Joey C says: Love me some Gizmos
	🤖 6:02pm PaulRobeson1925: Hola
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Friends! I have a bunch of 5" and 7" tape reels of noises I made building oscillators in the late 60s and early 70s.
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:02 I still have a lot of parts that are waiting for the right project.
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Meanwhile, check out the Dewanatrons: dewanatron.com
	6:04pm disco_nap_: Here for the words that will help me survive this awful inauguration day. 😭
	6:04pm Mark T: Howdy Mark
	6:04pm Spikey BXL: Hi Mark, luddites
	6:04pm bleubombersune: Mark That was the equation! Existence! Survival! Must Cancel Out Programming! thank you Ruk
	🤖 6:04pm DjLorraine: Hey
	🤖 6:05pm cosmic matrix: oooh this is gonna be a good one!
	🤖 6:05pm herb.nyc: Hi hi. Audio gizmos? Cool. But I think I lack mechanical skills
	🤖 6:05pm Deano de los Muertos: Hi Mark !
	6:06pm kirk from berkeley: Hello! This is Kirk Pearson (the interviewee). Thanks for having me on, Mark! Happy to answer questions as this goes on live.
	🤖 6:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Mark! I'm not going anywhere tonight, so I get to listen live.
	6:06pm Mennlinn Rebarts: This is great! I've been trying to get myself back into homemade audio projects.
	6:08pm Joey C says: I have a Raspberry Pi sitting around doing nothing. Hoping that will change.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Handy, DiL, newton, chresti, Bas, Joey, PaulR, webham, disco_nap, MarkT, Spikey, beubombersune, DjL, cosmic, Deano, Wendy, and Mennlinn!
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Hi Kirk! I'm an old friend of Brian Dewan's which is why I posted that Dewanatron link up there.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Kirk! Thanks so much for joining us!
	🤖 6:08pm herb.nyc: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Wait. If yr really the SAME Kirk, give us a spoiler from this interview. But don’t spoil it too much for us. Thx
	🤖 6:09pm PaulRobeson1925: Freedom of expression! babyyyyy
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Joey C says @6:08 I got a Raspberry Pi this week and already have it running a LAMP stack (powerful enough website)
	6:10pm dale: i used to get publications from the xtal set society, plans to build crystal radios. this guys book sounds interesting.
	6:10pm Marc: I couldn’t message during the stone carvers show. My gramps was a stone cutter who worked on tons of NYC construction in the 1920”s and 30’s. Thanks for the show!
	6:10pm Barney Grubbs: It is a great book! It’s a good complement to Nicolas Collins’ Handmade Electronic Music
	🤖 6:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Kirk! I will reach out to you from my work email address some time soon. I'm working on an electronic music festival at the library where I work, and I want to have some hands-on components.
	🤖 6:11pm herb.nyc: Simple speakers. Maybe sebadoh did this at the start
	6:11pm dale: i have some microwave magnets....do those work even though they have a big hole in the center?
	6:12pm TheDerek: ↳ herb.nyc @6:05 Coming from a dude that does have mechanical skills, you have not been exposed to that. mechanical skill require repetition. If you can type, you can weld
	6:12pm kirk from berkeley: Hey everyone! @Henry AWESOME! Brian is a cool, cool guy (and very kind, which is honestly the most important thing!)
	🤖 6:12pm PaulRobeson1925: Ok ok ok. Paper plate, wire. Magnet either side of the plate… I saw something terrible on a paper plate under the subway two days ago. I won’t say what it was but it was in the corner and ummm it was bad
	🤖 6:12pm Bas NL: Super project, building a speaker! (Trust me.. i'm an electronics engineer.)
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: ↳ TheDerek @6:12 Thx! Am an excellent typist!
	6:13pm kirk from berkeley: @herb I think we talk about how drum machines didn’t end up killing the percussion industry and how that may or may not be a good analog for thinking about generative AI
	🤖 6:13pm newton: small magnets can be dangerous. dont swallow small powerful rare earth magnets!
	6:14pm kirk from berkeley: @barney Indeed! Nic Collins turned a generation of folks onto this stuff, I highly recommend his book
	6:14pm mndave: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:12 It had a story to tell, but only if it was given wire and magnets!
	🤖 6:14pm herb.nyc: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:13 Thx. But you’ve said too much; we know the ending. Well, you meant well
	🤖 6:14pm chresti: ↳ Bas NL @6:12 I believe it!
	6:14pm kirk from berkeley: @wendy that sounds awesome—please do reach out!
	6:15pm jan: Paper Plate speaker- had to look that up on line...Needs a cylindrical magnet and a paper tube that the magnet can slide in and out of. Looks construction. This show needs illustrations posted on the play list.
	🤖 6:15pm herb.nyc: “”We’re not engineers. We went to music school”. Cute
	6:15pm dale: i recapped a realistic am radio from the 70s that was totally dead. i was proud when i heard voices come out of it.
	🤖 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ newton @6:13 There are big magnets made to feed to cows to pull bits of metal they accidentally eat into a (safer) ball .. kind of hard to believe: www.iflscience.com...
	🤖 6:16pm Bas NL: 555?
	6:16pm dale: ↳ mndave @6:14 a pooper plate speaker perhaps.
	🤖 6:16pm cosmic matrix: built a 555 oscillator when i was a kid, thanks to forest mims!
	🤖 6:16pm tim: Hiya Mark, Kirk and everyone! Great conversatio!
	6:17pm ultradamno: Build your own neural synth spectrum.ieee.org...
	🤖 6:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:12 Brian did a show last week, take a look: greenkill.substack.com...
	6:18pm kirk from berkeley: never underestimate a 555™️
	🤖 6:18pm tim: Did Richard James/Aphex Twin make some of his own electronics.
	🤖 6:19pm herb.nyc: This show segues into wfmu Theremin show at Monty hall, kinda
	6:19pm kirk from berkeley: @tim I think so!
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:18 or 556 (two 555s on a chip)
	🤖 6:22pm cosmic matrix: never knew that about XOR gates making noise! cool.
	🤖 6:22pm chresti: Kirk's voice reminds me of Jesse Jarnow's voice
	6:23pm kirk from berkeley: yeah! all the old drum machines are kinda comical in how they work. it’s all circuits that skeumorphically resemble drums
	🤖 6:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: Big Blood's most recent album, "Electric Voyeur," was recorded using all electronic instruments the band made themselves, using a book about how to make them, by Nicholas Collins. dontrustheruin.bandcamp.com...
	🤖 6:23pm newton: its a peter halley painting
	6:24pm TheDerek: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Hi Kirk!! I am building a pinball machine from scratch. I am currently working on a prototype at scale. I can fabricate all necessary parts & wire the bumpers. My main issue is I want to program music & program it to play music when it hits one of the bumpers. I know, tall order. I am an excellent solderer so that wont be an issue either. Would one of your classes possibly help me or at least set me up on the right path
	6:25pm dale: for you homeowners who may replace a washing machine someday - pull the motor and control boards because there is a TON of multicolored wiring in there in the harnesses. perfect project fodder.
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: You can make a theremin with a hex inverter logic chip : theremin.us...
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ dale @6:25 Same for landline telephony!
	6:26pm MAL: Great show! I'm in Providence RI. I hold DIY workshops where we make music electronics like synths, fuzz and other effects. Here's my Altoids Theremin: https://fb.watch/xeBhher_Js/
	6:26pm Layet J: I LOVE Techtonic!!
	6:26pm kirk from berkeley: @derek you won’t believe this… i repair pinball machines in my spare time! so i absolutely adore this project! the book/workshops would certainly give you a lot of ideas, but it really depends what you want! it’s much easier to have prerecorded samples that toggle from the pinball machine, but also potentially less fun!
	🤖 6:26pm cosmic matrix: anyone around who can help me troubleshoot an elka synthex chorus circuit? BBD.
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: its quite beautiful
	6:27pm dale: 'com pu pu pu pu pu pu pu pu computer games'
	6:27pm kirk from berkeley: a note: i did edit the hell out of those recordings (they’re not that reliably clean when played live)
	6:27pm H: so exciting and inspiring, thank you!!
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: I got tired of the smell of solder, so I mostly write my synthesizers instead.
	6:28pm dale: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:25 i have a big new roll, maybe 500 feet. isn't that too small a guage to be able to plit and work with?
	🤖 6:28pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:28 Ha! Do you miss soldering sometimes?
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:26 I got schematics for the Elka Synthex, if that helps? And i might give some guidance...
	6:29pm tom tom the pipers son: @ mark...change your theme song.... new one's better
	6:30pm The Oscar: Just ordered Kirk’s book for a friend’s birthday! Great show :)
	🤖 6:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:28 My eyesight and fine motor skills aren't what they used to be! But with some support, I can still get some wok done. But I don't have facilities for surface mount stuff.
	🤖 6:31pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Bas NL @6:29 oooh oooh oooh! thanks BAS NL! I have the schematics too, they seem to be mostly correct! ;) Dude, I’d love to discuss with you sometime if you have a moment!
	🤖 6:32pm cosmic matrix: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:31 sent u my contact info
	🤖 6:32pm zachary: Say no the DMCA.
	6:32pm San Pedro Girl: Hi Mark and all!
	6:32pm Avspuk: ↳ tim @6:18 It would not surprise me. I've read that Howard Devoto & Pete Shelley met at a tech college where they were both trying to build synths from instructions in a monthly magazine . Bernard Sumner was also trying to this too. Chris Carter built the 'gristliser' effect boxes for TG. & then there's Conny Plank
	🤖 6:32pm Bas NL: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:32 Yes, do!
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: "No User Serviceable Parts Inside" << like waving a red cape at a circuit bender.
	6:33pm morphe': ↳ MAL @6:26 Well that is really cool ... take it you have seen the Theremin Doc: Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1993 PG 1h 23m
	🤖 6:34pm zachary: I find this same discover to the free software and hardware movements. en.wikipedia.org... There are a lot of crazy circuits out there. Reminds me of early Casper Electronics from Chicago. www.youtube.com...
	6:34pm TheDerek: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:26 Oh the treasures that passes through your hands for repair. You must have come across some classics. A friend of mine suggested a rasberry pi. im not against pre-recorded music. The theme is of a 60s psych rockband. I'm not against using digital components.
	6:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:33 how much leon theremin bio is in the doc?
	6:35pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Wish I could drive to radio shack right now and rifle through the component drawers. Never can have enough 555's!
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 A whole lot. He was still alive while it was being made!
	🤖 6:35pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:34 I know the Casper Electronics guy! He lives a few towns away. Super nice fellow.
	🤖 6:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark & Kirk. Would be cool to hear the Simpsons theme on a homemade device.
	🤖 6:35pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:30 Yeah. I need to do a little surface mount worked. Destroyed that area of the area removing too much. Ha! I have some kits in the basement to do with the family. That's great you can do it with a bit of support, still. Any circuits you have been wanting to build?
	6:35pm Menlo Park: Isn't Trouble organizing a Theremin class
	🤖 6:35pm cosmic matrix: Discovered this fellow lately —> www.noystoise.com
	6:36pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 That is what it is about ... not tech talk ... his life ... well worth watching ...
	🤖 6:36pm cosmic matrix: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:35 his name is Peter Edwards.
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:35 I have a whole lot of weird new-old and rescued stock parts from the founder of Circuit Bending Reed Ghazala.
	6:36pm Barney Grubbs: Henry Barnes from Man is the Bastard/Amps for Christ always had a stack of weird home-built tube synths stacked up over his guitar amp. WT Nelson from mitb (& Geronimo & other bands) makes great noise synths under the Trogotronic name
	🤖 6:36pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:35 Really!? That's awesome. Never met him. I remember reading about him whatever it was ago. Decade or more possibly. Circuit bending is the best.
	🤖 6:37pm herb.nyc: Mark compels me to mention my boss’s non profit, re ewaste- www.lesecologycenter.org... and it’s ridgewood in queens on Saturday, next
	🤖 6:37pm zachary: Here's an old set of samples from a VTech speaking "ed" box. Lots of fund: freesound.org...
	6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:35 right, lived into 90's...forgot... i know some of his story...wireless security systems, cryogenics, but would like to know more.... i'll rent it
	🤖 6:37pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:36 Super cool. I used to read Experimental Musical Instruments magazine…recognized his name from there
	🤖 6:37pm herb.nyc: Bells ringing; Evan funk Davies is singing “you can ring my bell”🎶
	6:38pm kirk from berkeley: @cosmic yeah! bart hopkin is a good good friend of Dogbotic, and a master builder
	🤖 6:38pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:36 He was last living in the Czeck Republic working for some synth company. Now he’s around here. Still building (and performing w/) cool shit.
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:36 ah, was wondering if it was more about clara rockmore....
	🤖 6:39pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:37 That wasn't a real magazine, was it?
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:37 I was the only experimental software builder that was featured in EMI (www.echonyc.com... )
	6:39pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ zachary @6:35 I unwittingly ordered some surface mount pcbs about the time I really started needing reading glasses. Got through it but in no hurry to squint at a burning board again anytime soon.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: Our microwave oven abruptly stopped working. I realized it was the fuse. However, I found out pretty damn quick I needed a special tool that cost a billion dollars to remove the back Fuck you Panasonic, I'll throw the oven off a bridge before I spent another cent on this piece of crap.
	6:39pm ultradamno: I think a lot of that came from 70s synth paranoia over the idea this keyboard would put all the other instruments into obsolescence (Rachel Sweet had a song called Girl With The Synthesizer that spoke to that "she's getting her enjoyment/we're on unemployment"
	🤖 6:39pm zachary: Generative AI: The Hot Dogs of Art
	🤖 6:40pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 there was another doc around the mid 90s about clara, saw it at film forum
	6:40pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:39 )
	🤖 6:40pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:37 lol I think I still have one of those lying around…that I hadn’t bent yet! I discovered that there’s a whole list of naughty words the thing won’t say! It’s fun trying to figure out they are!
	6:40pm dale: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:39 you just need to short the capacitor with a long insulated screwdriver.
	🤖 6:41pm herb.nyc: Extrude, haha. Let’s tell Andy breckman-“so Kenny, yr tiny little radio station has been extruding unlistenable music for HOW LONG?”
	6:41pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @6:40 i might be conflating the two...:P
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:39 I keep trying to get Suno to spit out nonsense (like you heard in the New Year's With Ken show)
	🤖 6:41pm zachary: ↳ Barney Grubbs @6:39 Ha! Life's timing is hilarious. Glad you made it through. I have a small, inexpensive USB handheld microscope with a little mount. Helps with my poor eye sight.
	🤖 6:41pm cosmic matrix: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:38 oh wow! Super cool. His designs are great and what he does with a laser cutter is impressive.
	6:41pm carlos danger: Paul Schrader loves generative AI and says it writes better screenplays and gives better notes that humans: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/paul-schrader-chatgpt-ai-script-ideas-b2682966.html
	🤖 6:42pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:39 It was newsprint, kind of like Maximum Rock’n'Roll
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:41 Breadboards at least avoid soldering issues!
	6:42pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 She is a big part of it, but it is about him ... avoiding spoilers here ..
	6:43pm bearded wonder: Really enjoying this show!
	🤖 6:43pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:39 super cool! i will take a peek later!
	🤖 6:43pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:38 How cool. Now he has Czech Republic sync knowledge. Filters. Oscillators. Logic circuits. Ha! Where's he building? Does he have any instruments online?
	🤖 6:43pm zachary: Oh no! ALL THE SOCIALS!
	🤖 6:44pm Webhamster Henry: Good old archive.org has ALL the EMI issues. archive.org...
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:42 Huh. I'll look for archives online. Thanks for sharing. That's a great rabbit hole.
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:42 Hear, hear.
	6:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ carlos danger @6:41 maybe paul schrader has the talent to work with a.i. like maybe julia child could have made cuisine out of hot dogs
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That is a wish I just made, but hadn't opened a new tab. Thanks for looking and linking.
	6:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:42 ok...def watching
	🤖 6:45pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:43 He works for Soundtoys. I think he just builds stuff in his home workshop, but not sure. Also not sure what his latest projects are, unfortunately.
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:44 I have about 65% of them physically...
	6:46pm Bob Tankenstein: Really enjoyed this interview! Thanks Kirk! Thanks Mark!
	6:46pm carlos danger: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:44 human judgement of ai output definitely plays a major role, i would say
	🤖 6:46pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44 no way! sweeeeet!
	6:46pm joe_rosevear: Well, that was swell!
	6:46pm ultradamno: There was an interesting line on the CIA drama The Agency last night that sums up a lot this show "that device you're holding is surveilling you 24/7...also it's keeping you distracted, you miss the important things (finger gun to the head) bang"
	🤖 6:46pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:45 I never knew that about you Henry.
	6:46pm Mark T: Great interview. I've been in electronics for 45 plus years and it's great to see someone trying to bring it to the masses.
	🤖 6:47pm cosmic matrix: super cool topic. you know, there could be a whole weekly show about this kinda stuff…...
	🤖 6:47pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:45 Thanks. You should see if he also wants to be on Techtonic's new circuit bending series. Ha!
	🤖 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:46 Right next to that bulging folder is a similarly sized collection of Autoharpoholic magazine.
	6:47pm yippie: i know a girl named rhianna and then she changed her named to remac so people don't confuse her with the singer
	🤖 6:48pm tim: Thanks, Mark! I really appreciate the last 2 Techtonics. Such a great antidote to our current state of society.
	🤖 6:48pm zachary: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:12 Sorry I missed you at the start of the show, kirk. We were eating dinner.
	🤖 6:48pm Deano de los Muertos: Great show, Mark! Really enjoyed the guests the last 2 weeks
	🤖 6:48pm Bas NL: Thanks for spreading your enthusiasm, Kirk!
	6:48pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:44 Here it is free and no commercials= Internet Archive: archive.org...
	🤖 6:49pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:47 He’s pretty reclusive, but lemme know if you need to contact him for any good reason.
	🤖 6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Kirk!
	6:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:48 oh thx so much...!
	🤖 6:49pm cosmic matrix: Kirk, you rock! Thanks dude
	🤖 6:49pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:47 No! That's wild. I love it. I really enjoy seeing publications. That is the most fun section of Ubuweb.
	🤖 6:49pm chresti: Thanks Mark and Kirk!
	6:50pm joe_rosevear: ↳ newton @6:01 Cool. As a kid I built a few electronics projects also: crystal radio, a simple transistor radio, and even a very simple synthesizer. All from purchased kits. I demonstrated my synthesizer in music class in middle school.
	6:50pm goes211: Thank you, Mark…look forward to “good” technology shows.
	🤖 6:51pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:49 Thanks. I'll see if he's alive on some forum or something. I always enjoyed his work, so if he was making new things, I'd definitely check them out.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Kirk!
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: Well, this show was clearly up my alley.
	🤖 6:52pm zachary: Thanks, Kirk. Thanks, Mark. Thanks everyone on the boards! Everyone take a picture of some circuitry that you have and make it your profile. There's a million of you on these boards.
	6:52pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks mark and kirk and listeners
	🤖 6:52pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:51 I’m not sure what he’s up to lately. Last I heard he was doing performances with his light orbs and such.
	6:52pm kirk from berkeley: thank you all so much! a real unique privilege to be on this show—thanks for having me on, Mark, and thanks for all your questions. please feel free to be in touch! our contact info is on dogbotic.com
	🤖 6:52pm zachary: We should compile a sample library from WFMU listeners.
	6:53pm morphe': Thanks Mark and Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch" and all ...
	🤖 6:53pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 looks like this film from 1993 is the film that was shown are FF in 95.
	🤖 6:53pm zachary: I'm going to go make some electronic music myself. Ha! Cheers!
	🤖 6:54pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:52 .. to complement the old 7" box set "Sounds Of The Northeastern Freeform DJ" www.discogs.com...
	6:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @6:53 ah...i learned details about theremin from the podcast 500 songs that went on a long tangent about theremin while being about good vibrations
	6:57pm bleubombersune: Mark great show All stray safe and be well
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: I've got a Theremin.. it's difficult to play!
	🤖 6:57pm cosmic matrix: thanks, mark! lovely lovely
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark and Kirk!!
	🤖 6:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: Yay! Thanks, Mark and Kirk!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: BTW people are dumping Facebook almost as fast they are Exiting "X" (which should be aded to the sign off)
	6:58pm Barney Grubbs: Thanks!
	🤖 6:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "DIY Techtonic theme song" by "Kirk Pearson" I love this!
	6:59pm Franco Twinkie: Great show Mark and Kirk!
	🤖 6:59pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Tempo Block" by "Raymond Scott" I also love this!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Musk edits his own salute moment www.mirror.co.uk...
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone!

Techtonic with Mark Hurst: Playlist from January 20, 2025

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	5:56pm ultradamno: Mark! Techtonposers!
	🤖 6:00pm Handy Haversack: Mark! Techyons!
	6:00pm David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
	🤖 6:01pm newton: I made a radio transmitter once, a kit from Tandy Corp in the early 70s
	🤖 6:01pm chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians!
	🤖 6:01pm Bas NL: Hi Mark! All! Ohhww, i love electronic music!
	6:01pm Joey C says: Greetings Mark. it's been a long time. I'm not usually sitting in front of my PC with the ability to text. I'm typically mobile at this time of day. Have a great show. Wellcome all.
	6:02pm Joey C says: Love me some Gizmos
	🤖 6:02pm PaulRobeson1925: Hola
	🤖 6:02pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Friends! I have a bunch of 5" and 7" tape reels of noises I made building oscillators in the late 60s and early 70s.
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:02 I still have a lot of parts that are waiting for the right project.
	🤖 6:03pm Webhamster Henry: Meanwhile, check out the Dewanatrons: dewanatron.com
	6:04pm disco_nap_: Here for the words that will help me survive this awful inauguration day. 😭
	6:04pm Mark T: Howdy Mark
	6:04pm Spikey BXL: Hi Mark, luddites
	6:04pm bleubombersune: Mark That was the equation! Existence! Survival! Must Cancel Out Programming! thank you Ruk
	🤖 6:04pm DjLorraine: Hey
	🤖 6:05pm cosmic matrix: oooh this is gonna be a good one!
	🤖 6:05pm herb.nyc: Hi hi. Audio gizmos? Cool. But I think I lack mechanical skills
	🤖 6:05pm Deano de los Muertos: Hi Mark !
	6:06pm kirk from berkeley: Hello! This is Kirk Pearson (the interviewee). Thanks for having me on, Mark! Happy to answer questions as this goes on live.
	🤖 6:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Mark! I'm not going anywhere tonight, so I get to listen live.
	6:06pm Mennlinn Rebarts: This is great! I've been trying to get myself back into homemade audio projects.
	6:08pm Joey C says: I have a Raspberry Pi sitting around doing nothing. Hoping that will change.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Handy, DiL, newton, chresti, Bas, Joey, PaulR, webham, disco_nap, MarkT, Spikey, beubombersune, DjL, cosmic, Deano, Wendy, and Mennlinn!
	🤖 6:08pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Hi Kirk! I'm an old friend of Brian Dewan's which is why I posted that Dewanatron link up there.
	6:08pm Mark Hurst: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Kirk! Thanks so much for joining us!
	🤖 6:08pm herb.nyc: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Wait. If yr really the SAME Kirk, give us a spoiler from this interview. But don’t spoil it too much for us. Thx
	🤖 6:09pm PaulRobeson1925: Freedom of expression! babyyyyy
	🤖 6:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Joey C says @6:08 I got a Raspberry Pi this week and already have it running a LAMP stack (powerful enough website)
	6:10pm dale: i used to get publications from the xtal set society, plans to build crystal radios. this guys book sounds interesting.
	6:10pm Marc: I couldn’t message during the stone carvers show. My gramps was a stone cutter who worked on tons of NYC construction in the 1920”s and 30’s. Thanks for the show!
	6:10pm Barney Grubbs: It is a great book! It’s a good complement to Nicolas Collins’ Handmade Electronic Music
	🤖 6:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Kirk! I will reach out to you from my work email address some time soon. I'm working on an electronic music festival at the library where I work, and I want to have some hands-on components.
	🤖 6:11pm herb.nyc: Simple speakers. Maybe sebadoh did this at the start
	6:11pm dale: i have some microwave magnets....do those work even though they have a big hole in the center?
	6:12pm TheDerek: ↳ herb.nyc @6:05 Coming from a dude that does have mechanical skills, you have not been exposed to that. mechanical skill require repetition. If you can type, you can weld
	6:12pm kirk from berkeley: Hey everyone! @Henry AWESOME! Brian is a cool, cool guy (and very kind, which is honestly the most important thing!)
	🤖 6:12pm PaulRobeson1925: Ok ok ok. Paper plate, wire. Magnet either side of the plate… I saw something terrible on a paper plate under the subway two days ago. I won’t say what it was but it was in the corner and ummm it was bad
	🤖 6:12pm Bas NL: Super project, building a speaker! (Trust me.. i'm an electronics engineer.)
	🤖 6:12pm herb.nyc: ↳ TheDerek @6:12 Thx! Am an excellent typist!
	6:13pm kirk from berkeley: @herb I think we talk about how drum machines didn’t end up killing the percussion industry and how that may or may not be a good analog for thinking about generative AI
	🤖 6:13pm newton: small magnets can be dangerous. dont swallow small powerful rare earth magnets!
	6:14pm kirk from berkeley: @barney Indeed! Nic Collins turned a generation of folks onto this stuff, I highly recommend his book
	6:14pm mndave: ↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:12 It had a story to tell, but only if it was given wire and magnets!
	🤖 6:14pm herb.nyc: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:13 Thx. But you’ve said too much; we know the ending. Well, you meant well
	🤖 6:14pm chresti: ↳ Bas NL @6:12 I believe it!
	6:14pm kirk from berkeley: @wendy that sounds awesome—please do reach out!
	6:15pm jan: Paper Plate speaker- had to look that up on line...Needs a cylindrical magnet and a paper tube that the magnet can slide in and out of. Looks construction. This show needs illustrations posted on the play list.
	🤖 6:15pm herb.nyc: “”We’re not engineers. We went to music school”. Cute
	6:15pm dale: i recapped a realistic am radio from the 70s that was totally dead. i was proud when i heard voices come out of it.
	🤖 6:16pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ newton @6:13 There are big magnets made to feed to cows to pull bits of metal they accidentally eat into a (safer) ball .. kind of hard to believe: www.iflscience.com...
	🤖 6:16pm Bas NL: 555?
	6:16pm dale: ↳ mndave @6:14 a pooper plate speaker perhaps.
	🤖 6:16pm cosmic matrix: built a 555 oscillator when i was a kid, thanks to forest mims!
	🤖 6:16pm tim: Hiya Mark, Kirk and everyone! Great conversatio!
	6:17pm ultradamno: Build your own neural synth spectrum.ieee.org...
	🤖 6:17pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:12 Brian did a show last week, take a look: greenkill.substack.com...
	6:18pm kirk from berkeley: never underestimate a 555™️
	🤖 6:18pm tim: Did Richard James/Aphex Twin make some of his own electronics.
	🤖 6:19pm herb.nyc: This show segues into wfmu Theremin show at Monty hall, kinda
	6:19pm kirk from berkeley: @tim I think so!
	🤖 6:19pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:18 or 556 (two 555s on a chip)
	🤖 6:22pm cosmic matrix: never knew that about XOR gates making noise! cool.
	🤖 6:22pm chresti: Kirk's voice reminds me of Jesse Jarnow's voice
	6:23pm kirk from berkeley: yeah! all the old drum machines are kinda comical in how they work. it’s all circuits that skeumorphically resemble drums
	🤖 6:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: Big Blood's most recent album, "Electric Voyeur," was recorded using all electronic instruments the band made themselves, using a book about how to make them, by Nicholas Collins. dontrustheruin.bandcamp.com...
	🤖 6:23pm newton: its a peter halley painting
	6:24pm TheDerek: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:06 Hi Kirk!! I am building a pinball machine from scratch. I am currently working on a prototype at scale. I can fabricate all necessary parts & wire the bumpers. My main issue is I want to program music & program it to play music when it hits one of the bumpers. I know, tall order. I am an excellent solderer so that wont be an issue either. Would one of your classes possibly help me or at least set me up on the right path
	6:25pm dale: for you homeowners who may replace a washing machine someday - pull the motor and control boards because there is a TON of multicolored wiring in there in the harnesses. perfect project fodder.
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: You can make a theremin with a hex inverter logic chip : theremin.us...
	🤖 6:25pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ dale @6:25 Same for landline telephony!
	6:26pm MAL: Great show! I'm in Providence RI. I hold DIY workshops where we make music electronics like synths, fuzz and other effects. Here's my Altoids Theremin: https://fb.watch/xeBhher_Js/
	6:26pm Layet J: I LOVE Techtonic!!
	6:26pm kirk from berkeley: @derek you won’t believe this… i repair pinball machines in my spare time! so i absolutely adore this project! the book/workshops would certainly give you a lot of ideas, but it really depends what you want! it’s much easier to have prerecorded samples that toggle from the pinball machine, but also potentially less fun!
	🤖 6:26pm cosmic matrix: anyone around who can help me troubleshoot an elka synthex chorus circuit? BBD.
	6:26pm tom tom the pipers son: its quite beautiful
	6:27pm dale: 'com pu pu pu pu pu pu pu pu computer games'
	6:27pm kirk from berkeley: a note: i did edit the hell out of those recordings (they’re not that reliably clean when played live)
	6:27pm H: so exciting and inspiring, thank you!!
	🤖 6:28pm Webhamster Henry: I got tired of the smell of solder, so I mostly write my synthesizers instead.
	6:28pm dale: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:25 i have a big new roll, maybe 500 feet. isn't that too small a guage to be able to plit and work with?
	🤖 6:28pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:28 Ha! Do you miss soldering sometimes?
	🤖 6:29pm Bas NL: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:26 I got schematics for the Elka Synthex, if that helps? And i might give some guidance...
	6:29pm tom tom the pipers son: @ mark...change your theme song.... new one's better
	6:30pm The Oscar: Just ordered Kirk’s book for a friend’s birthday! Great show :)
	🤖 6:30pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:28 My eyesight and fine motor skills aren't what they used to be! But with some support, I can still get some wok done. But I don't have facilities for surface mount stuff.
	🤖 6:31pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Bas NL @6:29 oooh oooh oooh! thanks BAS NL! I have the schematics too, they seem to be mostly correct! ;) Dude, I’d love to discuss with you sometime if you have a moment!
	🤖 6:32pm cosmic matrix: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:31 sent u my contact info
	🤖 6:32pm zachary: Say no the DMCA.
	6:32pm San Pedro Girl: Hi Mark and all!
	6:32pm Avspuk: ↳ tim @6:18 It would not surprise me. I've read that Howard Devoto & Pete Shelley met at a tech college where they were both trying to build synths from instructions in a monthly magazine . Bernard Sumner was also trying to this too. Chris Carter built the 'gristliser' effect boxes for TG. & then there's Conny Plank
	🤖 6:32pm Bas NL: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:32 Yes, do!
	🤖 6:33pm Webhamster Henry: "No User Serviceable Parts Inside" << like waving a red cape at a circuit bender.
	6:33pm morphe': ↳ MAL @6:26 Well that is really cool ... take it you have seen the Theremin Doc: Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1993 PG 1h 23m
	🤖 6:34pm zachary: I find this same discover to the free software and hardware movements. en.wikipedia.org... There are a lot of crazy circuits out there. Reminds me of early Casper Electronics from Chicago. www.youtube.com...
	6:34pm TheDerek: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:26 Oh the treasures that passes through your hands for repair. You must have come across some classics. A friend of mine suggested a rasberry pi. im not against pre-recorded music. The theme is of a 60s psych rockband. I'm not against using digital components.
	6:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:33 how much leon theremin bio is in the doc?
	6:35pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Wish I could drive to radio shack right now and rifle through the component drawers. Never can have enough 555's!
	🤖 6:35pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 A whole lot. He was still alive while it was being made!
	🤖 6:35pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:34 I know the Casper Electronics guy! He lives a few towns away. Super nice fellow.
	🤖 6:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark & Kirk. Would be cool to hear the Simpsons theme on a homemade device.
	🤖 6:35pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:30 Yeah. I need to do a little surface mount worked. Destroyed that area of the area removing too much. Ha! I have some kits in the basement to do with the family. That's great you can do it with a bit of support, still. Any circuits you have been wanting to build?
	6:35pm Menlo Park: Isn't Trouble organizing a Theremin class
	🤖 6:35pm cosmic matrix: Discovered this fellow lately —> www.noystoise.com
	6:36pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:34 That is what it is about ... not tech talk ... his life ... well worth watching ...
	🤖 6:36pm cosmic matrix: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:35 his name is Peter Edwards.
	🤖 6:36pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:35 I have a whole lot of weird new-old and rescued stock parts from the founder of Circuit Bending Reed Ghazala.
	6:36pm Barney Grubbs: Henry Barnes from Man is the Bastard/Amps for Christ always had a stack of weird home-built tube synths stacked up over his guitar amp. WT Nelson from mitb (& Geronimo & other bands) makes great noise synths under the Trogotronic name
	🤖 6:36pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:35 Really!? That's awesome. Never met him. I remember reading about him whatever it was ago. Decade or more possibly. Circuit bending is the best.
	🤖 6:37pm herb.nyc: Mark compels me to mention my boss’s non profit, re ewaste- www.lesecologycenter.org... and it’s ridgewood in queens on Saturday, next
	🤖 6:37pm zachary: Here's an old set of samples from a VTech speaking "ed" box. Lots of fund: freesound.org...
	6:37pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:35 right, lived into 90's...forgot... i know some of his story...wireless security systems, cryogenics, but would like to know more.... i'll rent it
	🤖 6:37pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:36 Super cool. I used to read Experimental Musical Instruments magazine…recognized his name from there
	🤖 6:37pm herb.nyc: Bells ringing; Evan funk Davies is singing “you can ring my bell”🎶
	6:38pm kirk from berkeley: @cosmic yeah! bart hopkin is a good good friend of Dogbotic, and a master builder
	🤖 6:38pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:36 He was last living in the Czeck Republic working for some synth company. Now he’s around here. Still building (and performing w/) cool shit.
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:36 ah, was wondering if it was more about clara rockmore....
	🤖 6:39pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:37 That wasn't a real magazine, was it?
	🤖 6:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:37 I was the only experimental software builder that was featured in EMI (www.echonyc.com... )
	6:39pm Barney Grubbs: ↳ zachary @6:35 I unwittingly ordered some surface mount pcbs about the time I really started needing reading glasses. Got through it but in no hurry to squint at a burning board again anytime soon.
	6:39pm Franco Twinkie: Our microwave oven abruptly stopped working. I realized it was the fuse. However, I found out pretty damn quick I needed a special tool that cost a billion dollars to remove the back Fuck you Panasonic, I'll throw the oven off a bridge before I spent another cent on this piece of crap.
	6:39pm ultradamno: I think a lot of that came from 70s synth paranoia over the idea this keyboard would put all the other instruments into obsolescence (Rachel Sweet had a song called Girl With The Synthesizer that spoke to that "she's getting her enjoyment/we're on unemployment"
	🤖 6:39pm zachary: Generative AI: The Hot Dogs of Art
	🤖 6:40pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 there was another doc around the mid 90s about clara, saw it at film forum
	6:40pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @6:39 )
	🤖 6:40pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:37 lol I think I still have one of those lying around…that I hadn’t bent yet! I discovered that there’s a whole list of naughty words the thing won’t say! It’s fun trying to figure out they are!
	6:40pm dale: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:39 you just need to short the capacitor with a long insulated screwdriver.
	🤖 6:41pm herb.nyc: Extrude, haha. Let’s tell Andy breckman-“so Kenny, yr tiny little radio station has been extruding unlistenable music for HOW LONG?”
	6:41pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @6:40 i might be conflating the two...:P
	🤖 6:41pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:39 I keep trying to get Suno to spit out nonsense (like you heard in the New Year's With Ken show)
	🤖 6:41pm zachary: ↳ Barney Grubbs @6:39 Ha! Life's timing is hilarious. Glad you made it through. I have a small, inexpensive USB handheld microscope with a little mount. Helps with my poor eye sight.
	🤖 6:41pm cosmic matrix: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:38 oh wow! Super cool. His designs are great and what he does with a laser cutter is impressive.
	6:41pm carlos danger: Paul Schrader loves generative AI and says it writes better screenplays and gives better notes that humans: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/paul-schrader-chatgpt-ai-script-ideas-b2682966.html
	🤖 6:42pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:39 It was newsprint, kind of like Maximum Rock’n'Roll
	🤖 6:42pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:41 Breadboards at least avoid soldering issues!
	6:42pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 She is a big part of it, but it is about him ... avoiding spoilers here ..
	6:43pm bearded wonder: Really enjoying this show!
	🤖 6:43pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:39 super cool! i will take a peek later!
	🤖 6:43pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:38 How cool. Now he has Czech Republic sync knowledge. Filters. Oscillators. Logic circuits. Ha! Where's he building? Does he have any instruments online?
	🤖 6:43pm zachary: Oh no! ALL THE SOCIALS!
	🤖 6:44pm Webhamster Henry: Good old archive.org has ALL the EMI issues. archive.org...
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:42 Huh. I'll look for archives online. Thanks for sharing. That's a great rabbit hole.
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:42 Hear, hear.
	6:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ carlos danger @6:41 maybe paul schrader has the talent to work with a.i. like maybe julia child could have made cuisine out of hot dogs
	🤖 6:44pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That is a wish I just made, but hadn't opened a new tab. Thanks for looking and linking.
	6:44pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:42 ok...def watching
	🤖 6:45pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:43 He works for Soundtoys. I think he just builds stuff in his home workshop, but not sure. Also not sure what his latest projects are, unfortunately.
	🤖 6:45pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:44 I have about 65% of them physically...
	6:46pm Bob Tankenstein: Really enjoyed this interview! Thanks Kirk! Thanks Mark!
	6:46pm carlos danger: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:44 human judgement of ai output definitely plays a major role, i would say
	🤖 6:46pm cosmic matrix: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:44 no way! sweeeeet!
	6:46pm joe_rosevear: Well, that was swell!
	6:46pm ultradamno: There was an interesting line on the CIA drama The Agency last night that sums up a lot this show "that device you're holding is surveilling you 24/7...also it's keeping you distracted, you miss the important things (finger gun to the head) bang"
	🤖 6:46pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:45 I never knew that about you Henry.
	6:46pm Mark T: Great interview. I've been in electronics for 45 plus years and it's great to see someone trying to bring it to the masses.
	🤖 6:47pm cosmic matrix: super cool topic. you know, there could be a whole weekly show about this kinda stuff…...
	🤖 6:47pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:45 Thanks. You should see if he also wants to be on Techtonic's new circuit bending series. Ha!
	🤖 6:47pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:46 Right next to that bulging folder is a similarly sized collection of Autoharpoholic magazine.
	6:47pm yippie: i know a girl named rhianna and then she changed her named to remac so people don't confuse her with the singer
	🤖 6:48pm tim: Thanks, Mark! I really appreciate the last 2 Techtonics. Such a great antidote to our current state of society.
	🤖 6:48pm zachary: ↳ kirk from berkeley @6:12 Sorry I missed you at the start of the show, kirk. We were eating dinner.
	🤖 6:48pm Deano de los Muertos: Great show, Mark! Really enjoyed the guests the last 2 weeks
	🤖 6:48pm Bas NL: Thanks for spreading your enthusiasm, Kirk!
	6:48pm morphe': ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:44 Here it is free and no commercials= Internet Archive: archive.org...
	🤖 6:49pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:47 He’s pretty reclusive, but lemme know if you need to contact him for any good reason.
	🤖 6:49pm Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Kirk!
	6:49pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @6:48 oh thx so much...!
	🤖 6:49pm cosmic matrix: Kirk, you rock! Thanks dude
	🤖 6:49pm zachary: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:47 No! That's wild. I love it. I really enjoy seeing publications. That is the most fun section of Ubuweb.
	🤖 6:49pm chresti: Thanks Mark and Kirk!
	6:50pm joe_rosevear: ↳ newton @6:01 Cool. As a kid I built a few electronics projects also: crystal radio, a simple transistor radio, and even a very simple synthesizer. All from purchased kits. I demonstrated my synthesizer in music class in middle school.
	6:50pm goes211: Thank you, Mark…look forward to “good” technology shows.
	🤖 6:51pm zachary: ↳ cosmic matrix @6:49 Thanks. I'll see if he's alive on some forum or something. I always enjoyed his work, so if he was making new things, I'd definitely check them out.
	🤖 6:51pm Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark, Kirk!
	🤖 6:52pm Webhamster Henry: Well, this show was clearly up my alley.
	🤖 6:52pm zachary: Thanks, Kirk. Thanks, Mark. Thanks everyone on the boards! Everyone take a picture of some circuitry that you have and make it your profile. There's a million of you on these boards.
	6:52pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks mark and kirk and listeners
	🤖 6:52pm cosmic matrix: ↳ zachary @6:51 I’m not sure what he’s up to lately. Last I heard he was doing performances with his light orbs and such.
	6:52pm kirk from berkeley: thank you all so much! a real unique privilege to be on this show—thanks for having me on, Mark, and thanks for all your questions. please feel free to be in touch! our contact info is on dogbotic.com
	🤖 6:52pm zachary: We should compile a sample library from WFMU listeners.
	6:53pm morphe': Thanks Mark and Kirk Pearson, author, "Electronic Music From Scratch" and all ...
	🤖 6:53pm newton: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:41 looks like this film from 1993 is the film that was shown are FF in 95.
	🤖 6:53pm zachary: I'm going to go make some electronic music myself. Ha! Cheers!
	🤖 6:54pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ zachary @6:52 .. to complement the old 7" box set "Sounds Of The Northeastern Freeform DJ" www.discogs.com...
	6:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ newton @6:53 ah...i learned details about theremin from the podcast 500 songs that went on a long tangent about theremin while being about good vibrations
	6:57pm bleubombersune: Mark great show All stray safe and be well
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: I've got a Theremin.. it's difficult to play!
	🤖 6:57pm cosmic matrix: thanks, mark! lovely lovely
	🤖 6:57pm Bas NL: Thanks Mark and Kirk!!
	🤖 6:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: Yay! Thanks, Mark and Kirk!
	🤖 6:58pm Webhamster Henry: BTW people are dumping Facebook almost as fast they are Exiting "X" (which should be aded to the sign off)
	6:58pm Barney Grubbs: Thanks!
	🤖 6:58pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "DIY Techtonic theme song" by "Kirk Pearson" I love this!
	6:59pm Franco Twinkie: Great show Mark and Kirk!
	🤖 6:59pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Tempo Block" by "Raymond Scott" I also love this!
	6:59pm ultradamno: Musk edits his own salute moment www.mirror.co.uk...
	7:00pm Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone!

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