Punk Rock Drum Machine
A Digital Collection That Nobody Asked For
About Punk Rock Drum Machine Digital Archive
This collection features the creative output from the artistic entity known as Punk Rock Drum Machine.
Items from the Punk Rock Drum Machine’s recent albums can be found at the Punk Rock Drum Machine Bandcamp Site
The early recordings can only be found in this collection.
Punk Rock Drum Machine describes itself as a self serving bastard making music and art it wants to hear or see. They don’t play live, but they put out an album every year and no one gets hurt.
Sometimes visual creations are made to accompany the audio output or to win academic approval.
Albums
The musical output of Punk Rock Drum Machine began as just a creative outlet captured on a 4 track analog cassette recorder and utilizing early internet drum loops. A temporary relocation to the midwest led to the acquiring a 2005 Tascam digital analog 8 track that outputs WAV files, but features analog controls. The files are then mastered to WAV and mp3 files in Audacity.
Visual Art
All albums required artwork. Sometimes front and back covers when compact discs were the primary way of sharing and an occasional poster to annoy local businesses, or as a way of keeping Adobe CS skills sharp. Eventually many art ideas were required for academic progression. Sadly many of these projects were made in Flash so they are lost to time like tears in rain.
Comic Strip
At one point it felt like the robot mascot of Punk Rock Drum Machine needed a cartoon. It started as a weekly run multi-panel strip that was drawn in Flash and published on Tumblr. It met with the same public response as the audio output and was eventually paused, but never officially abandoned. The robot is a friendly one that utilizes DIY/Punk Rock logic as opposed to AI and will not bring about armageddon.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
Using the CollectionBuilder-CSV template and the static website generator Jekyll, this project creates an engaging interface to explore driven by metadata.