Andrew Benson

Since I am always compiling lists of books and articles for imaginary lectures and classes that I will never teach, I decided I should take a moment to start a sort of Bibliography of my thought processes.

I will be adding to this as time permits:

• “The Production of Space”, Henri Lefebvre.
• “Rhythmanalysis”,Henri Lefebvre.
• “Collecting Contemporary”,
• “A Thousand Plateaus”, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
• “1000 Years of Non-Linear History”, Manuel DeLanda.
• “Invisible Cities”, Italo Calvino.
• “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, Friedrich Nietzche
• “Hardware Hacking: Handmade Electronic Music”, Nic Collins
• “The History of Sexuality”, Michel Foucault
• “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”,Italo Calvino
• “Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus”, Ludwig Wittgensteing
• “The Question Concerning Technology”, Martin Heidegger
• “A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity”,Manuel Delanda.

Today I posted an article over at Cycling74.com about using joysticks with MaxMSP. Toward the end of the article, I discuss ways to alter the electronics of a USB joystick for custom controllers.
I had been meaning to write this piece for a long time, and I was assigned the task of writing an article for the website, so I figured this would be a good solution.

Since I’ve been working for Cycling ‘74, I’ve taken a bit of time out of my busy Support/Testing day to put together these “recipes” based on whatever interesting video trick I happened to be working on that week. Many of these are proof-of-concept types of things, demonstrating that certain things can be done, and one possible approach to a problem. More often than not, the concepts are drawn directly from a project I’m working on, and comprise a collection of my secret processes for doing video and audio work.

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