J's Kinda Music Almost Everyday

Title: toaster test
Artist: Noggin
Album: Buzz Exports
Date: 2000

We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast to bring you something completely different (I’m in Vegas, be back to the station next week).
One of my first forays into building my own electronics was a project called the Midi Toaster. This allowed one to rig up 4 pots and 4 buttons to the joystick port of a computer, and then convert the signals sent into midi data. I wrote this ‘song’ as a way to test out what real time control was all about.
This was the first time I had ever used something like a synth with realtime control. I peed my pants. I never looked back. I tweaked.
Name inspired by Orbital b-side “Analogue Test ’90”.
Download: toaster-test (right click and choose ‘save as’)