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For you guitarists who feel left out: a deviant controller

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:48:03 +0000

The Misa digital guitar.

Great idea, and the controller is based on Linux, allowing you to mess with its operation. Mentioned on Slashdot.

(Why does it make me think of the Korg Kaoscillator? Isn’t that odd.)

A gourd. With a synth.

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:54:56 +0000

IT’S A GOURD!!

My favorite part: look at the “Related Videos’ section. It includes a mishmash of weirdness, including a promo video for “Kokopelli Rising” by “Bing Futch”, a bland New Age album. The exact opposite of what Dave Wright does with his gourd.

And now, he’s put it on eBay for sale……..

Mechanical sequencer…………made of junk

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:25:20 +0000

The work of mad Swedish artists Erik Nilsson and Peter Kädergård. Video here.

What would you do with a player piano with MIDI input?

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:24:23 +0000

If you’re Jeff Stolet, you design software to take inputs from infrared sensors, convert them to algorithms and then to MIDI note data, then send it to the piano. So, he plays complex piano music—by waving his hands in the air. Here’s the result:

More about his project here.

The Electric Western THERMATRON

LorinP — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:11:02 +0000

Test of the THERMATRON flame controlled synthesizer by Lorin Edwin Parker from www.electricwestern.com:

The THERMATRON

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lX3Uu9OOs

Ionized gas, chemicals, heat and applied high voltage conduct through a flame, modulating the impedance across the grid and or plate of vacuum tubes. This applies a control voltage to a Phantastron synthesizer.

DIO…….A new tube synth…….

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:32:19 +0000

by Not Breathing……ugliest old radio I ever saw.
Video here, synched with an Akai MPC.

Also of some note: the work by Snyderphonics. Their Manta USB controller looks like a winner. So buy one.

Odds and ends (videos)

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:28:23 +0000

First, artist Jake Waldron usually does sculpture;
but he did build a complex noise box, and he circuit-bent a TV set.

Then we have this thing, made of an old SN76477 noisemaker chip.

The guy who built a sequencer out of a Dekatron tube is braver than he realizes–
Dekatrons are erratic and unreliable. Same guy who previously built a modular synth out of tubes.

An experimental analog video synth–very rare to see anyone doing this today.
(Doing it with a VGA monitor simplifies the electronics, because
you don’t have to worry about recombining sync and chroma signals.)

Finally, this defies explanation……

More Dave-Wright-branded insane

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:19:00 +0000

It’s got tubes, it’s got transistors, it’s got a CD on a variable speed motor with the coating scratched off and a photo pickup underneath……it’s not on his website. Why does he do things like this?

advanced Cacophonator

SubtleNoiseMaker — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:03:29 +0000

another sonic bomb:

SubtleNoiseMaker Cacophonator Video

more info

advanced cacophonator

Not Breathing STRIKES AGAIN

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:48:20 +0000

With the Astra. Video here.

I quote the creator:
“ken stone power supply board – caps/regulator/heatsinks/diodes from gutted wersi organ.
ray wilson’s 1v/oct single bus pcb. the keyboard is from a gutted lowrey wandering genie keyboard.
i recycled most of the capacitors in the unit from the genie and a dead tr606
(the rotary switches from 606 and a dead scope)
inside five small protoboards w/ 2 VCOs based on thomas henry’s 3080 vcos
(w/ matched transistor pair/tempco/polystrene caps).
white noise source (based on henry’s PNP noise source) through a Lm386 amp.
passive ring modulator using BAT56 schottky diodes – through their own lm386 amp.
VCF is a CEM 3328 from a dead mirage keyboard following jeff pointus/scott stites schematic – thomas henry 3080 VCA – a 555 based ADSR, two asm-1 lfos.
whew.
each CV section has it’s own modulation matrix rotary switch w/ choice
of lfo 1 tri, lfo 1 squ, lfo2 tri/squ, adsr, noise, gate, vco cross modulation
i didn’t buy anything for this unit.
i used some pretty crappy pots – but used good ones where it counts –
even the wire was from an old medical device

this is my depression era thrifter

the unit has linear FMs to the vcos and voltage controled Q
that are not even available on the front panel
i also built another lag in the unit – but didn’t need it…
someone can circuit bend it when i’m dead….

used decal paper for the first time to do the panel –
wood was dumpster wood

assembly of a mad man…”

But smarter than most mad men……and not afraid to part out crummy old combo organs.