Gear Review - Greenwood Electronic HNW Tin Can.

Bought this from Dan Greenwood AKA Diagram A at this past Tuesday's show. As you can see from the picture this is a 9-volt powered tin can. Inside are two or three oscillators interconnected by tilt switches. Once you plug that battery in, the can is on and generating sound. Any slight tap scrambles the oscillations and makes the sounds freak out.

Depending on the angle of the can, you can get low end growls, repeating patterns of chirps, lots of clicks and other harsh sounds. Shaking and moving it around vary the results. Fun with strobe lights.

As far as my experience with boutique gear goes, this guy has a high bang-for-your-buck value sitting around $30.

http://diagram-a-greenwood.blogspot.com/

Diagram A + Gastric Lavage - Forced March

The joining of two of Western Mass's most beloved institutions. Nothing here but the best. You get Dan Greenwood's sputtering and squealing homemade electronics, Chris Dooley's obliviated guitar feedback, shitty keyboard beats, deathly growls and quick n' nasty edits make this short 20 minute (?) tape crucial old school noise. Fast paced and dynamic. There's hints of metal abuse in the feedback. These men are insane.

Xeroxed, single-sided insert and spray painted case.

This one's for the purists.

The only contact you need: http://diagram-a-greenwood.blogspot.com/

DAN GREENWOOD "GUTS:RENDER" (Greenwood Electronics)

guts:render is a triple cassette audio collage. composed by
Dan Greenwood of diagram a. using material that he collected from Chris Cooper of fat worm of error, Patrick O'neil of skin crime, and Dominick Fernow of prurient, Dan concocts a seamless soup of raw sounds. for good measure he adds material from eight years of home audio experiments of his own. you can't tell what is what with this recording. even if you are a seasoned veteran of the sounds that some of these people have produced. Dan does an adequate job, muffling and chopping the sources at his disposal. that being said, the cherry on top of this release is the addition of some old raw sounds provided by his former accomplice, John Brown. together as proof of the shooting, John and Dan carved a little corner of their own out of the late 1990's harsh noise scene. this release seems to put in motion an epilogue of sorts to the legacy of their body of work together. as vastly underrated and unknown as they were.
i don't see any reason to explain to you here the impact that the work of Chris Cooper, Patrick O'neil, or Dominick Fernow has had on the sub culture of noise and sound art. Dan chooses to include his friends (and influences) here to broaden the spectrum of your listening pleasure. Alicia Renadette does a great job on the art work for this too. a smoky spray paint color collage to trip on while you listen to all three tapes at once.
if you savor the sweet sound of harsh cut up home brew lo-fi audio sweat. then i suggest you get in touch with Dan at : http://greenwoodelectronic.blogspot.com