Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My submission for the Hardware Jams “Jams at Dawn” Weekend Challenge.
I am not a morning person! But this week’s challenge prompt inspired me to get up at silly o’clock in the morning, head down to the beach and jam while the sun rose.
I wanted to make the sunrise part of the music so I connected a light dependent resistor to the Elmyra 2’s distortion customisation port. As the sun rose the amount of light increased and so more light fell on the LDR. This changed the harshness of the distortion over the course of the jam with the sound becoming less dark as the jam went on.
This video is a shortened version of the full jam to fit the HWJ challenge 5 minute time limit. You can view the full jam here: youtu.be/fqeewQAQVlw
This week’s challenge prompt:
Goooooood Morning Jamfam!
The HWJ admin team were greeted this morning by two wonderful photographs, of the sunrise today. This week’s challenge is a “picture-to-jam” challenge: we would like you to make a jam inspired by one, or both of these pictures.
Will you pick a side? Will you balance the two? Which sunrise suits your mood better and what music does it inspire?
Always Learning
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I'm a strong believer in continuous improvement and always trying to learn something new. This week I set up a portable rig and jammed outside in the wild!!
My submission for the Hardware Jams “Jams at Dawn” Weekend Challenge.
I am not a morning person! But this week’s challenge prompt inspired me to get up at silly o’clock in the morning, head down to the beach and jam while the sun rose.
I wanted to make the sunrise part of the music so I connected a light dependent resistor to the Elmyra 2’s distortion customisation port. As the sun rose the amount of light increased and so more light fell on the LDR. This changed the harshness of the distortion over the course of the jam with the sound becoming less dark as the jam went on.
This video is a shortened version of the full jam to fit the HWJ challenge 5 minute time limit. You can view the full jam here: youtu.be/fqeewQAQVlw
This week’s challenge prompt:
Goooooood Morning Jamfam!
The HWJ admin team were greeted this morning by two wonderful photographs, of the sunrise today. This week’s challenge is a “picture-to-jam” challenge: we would like you to make a jam inspired by one, or both of these pictures.
Will you pick a side? Will you balance the two? Which sunrise suits your mood better and what music does it inspire?
Always Learning
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I'm a strong believer in continuous improvement and always trying to learn something new. This week I set up a portable rig and jammed outside in the wild!!
