{"id":331,"date":"2009-07-17T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-10-02T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T01:57:44","slug":"playing-a-cigarette-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/playing-a-cigarette-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing a Cigarette Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_332\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332\" title=\"Cigarette Machine\" src=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cigMachine.jpg\" alt=\"This nicotine-dispensing hulk is as playable as a drum kit.\" width=\"580\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cigMachine.jpg 580w, https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/cigMachine-290x146.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This nicotine-dispensing hulk is as playable as a drum kit.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When <a title=\"Visit Stimulant's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stimulant.io\" target=\"_blank\">we<\/a> moved into our new <a title=\"See a crappy photo on Flickr!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/atomick\/3109283712\/\" target=\"_blank\">office<\/a>, there was this huge cigarette vending machine from the late 60&#8217;s or early 70&#8217;s left in our foyer. It went from monstrosity to curiosity, and now we&#8217;re happy it&#8217;s around as an ironic\u00c2\u00a0<em>objet d&#8217;arte<\/em>. It went from curosity to obsession once I realized that it could open and its metallic guts could be struck, strummed, and otherwise played like an instrument.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those sessions I&#8217;ll redo someday with <a title=\"...such as the SD702, profiled in this earlier post\" href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/bigger-toys-to-the-big-guns-the-sound-devices-702\" target=\"_self\">better gear<\/a>, and with sound blankets to dampen the super-bright room (it&#8217;s far too heavy to move anywhere else!), but these clips still evoke how expressive this machine is. Here&#8217;s a 30-second drum loop made from the raw sounds; the only processing is some EQ and compression.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/5763956&#8243; params=&#8221;show_comments=true&#038;auto_play=false&#038;color=ee0000&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; ]<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">[Zoom H2, collapsed to mono, made into EXS24 drum kit in Logic Pro]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we moved into our new office, there was this huge cigarette vending machine from the late 60&#8217;s or early 70&#8217;s left in our foyer. It went from monstrosity to curiosity, and now we&#8217;re happy it&#8217;s around as an ironic\u00c2\u00a0objet d&#8217;arte. It went from curosity to obsession once I realized that it could open and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,63,6,4],"tags":[23,16,10,21,22,17,321],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}