@laborcamp, thanks : ]
-no worries…
re: the glockenspiel contraption. Thats an old pic, taken the first day I gathered some bits together. It was was for a gallery show titled: ’ nothing’s useless / resistant obsolescence ’ that a friend pitched to the local gallery -the idea in essence: to use found and scrounged items… older technology and media of different kinds. So this thing -what I tend to think of as a kinetic sculpture of sorts was my contribution to that group show. ( that and collaborating on the other aspects ) -as ever a picture is worth a thousand words -so I’ll try to take some more recents pics / video…
I had this old turntable, a reel to reel tape recorder old mixers and projectors… all this junk… then after we put a call out in the local paper, lots more junk.
In a nutshell it works like a record player with little magnets arranged on the turntable. As it turns they cause the pendulums to swing striking the glockenspiel keys… peizo’s amplify the sound which is fed through a passive mixer into a delay circuit controlled by the inverted lampshade joystick on the other end of the goose neck. -you can arrange the magnets for different patterns / arpeggios and the adjacent ones for " non static presets " where the joystick flit’s and oscillates around the unstable / opposing magnetic fields - altering the output. I borrowed the idea directly from this fella the reel to reel ( aye euro format ) adds a tape delay. Pitch, depth and freeze are controlled by gieke’s HD 01.
-Still in the works is CV control of the turntable’s speed / direction, the same for the reel to reel and a pair of little programable music box contraptions ( this is done with a 4dollar pwm board and Vakpaks from synthrotek ) -there’s some more amplified peizo springs, tines and things, ( like a luminist garden sort of ) and four VCU meter kits from Giekes that should find a space there somewhere…
I quite like that all of the parts ( and " interface elements " ) use circles, therefore it’d be cool to get orca on the arc happening ( sequencing the echophone and some of Gieke’s fan oscillators perhaps… if that design gets revisited… ) -I should really learn more about basic electronics -it’s all just hodge-podge and solving ( occasionally ) a problem if or when it appears. -still thats ok I guess.
– the other pics,
-top is a guitronome… for looping on the fly, prepared guitar, ebow -all stray technologies kits -pretty self explanatory, being able to strum chords, sample and chop up the tails with party van ( or srs’s app that I forget the name of ) so immediately is heaps cool., the touch strip and pressure sensor output midi dada in various ways that can be set by the selectors on the board. the setup is fun yet fragile. Need to rout a proper housing for the grid and attach the strip to the upper curve of the neck.
@glia -the little round glass wave form device is the lens from an old broken slide projector… I had a few tiny 10 dollar screens that happened to fit snuggly… wish it was morel interesting than that, I just liked the old school scope aesthetic…
Lastly, lower left is a pretty rough around the edges briefcase housing two different bleep labs kits, an arduino-piano, a couple early critter and guitari video kits, an early Giekes HSS2 prototype and a collection of dirt mixers…all wired to create switchable feedback loops… -I guess it is an AV synth of sorts, albeit a pretty sketchy one.
The following pic is essentially all the video guts mentioned earlier connected to a six way monitor / switcher that combines the generated output with live security camera feeds and a circuit bent text generator used to create visuals for some live gigs a while ago… -It probably only half qualifies as a homemade instrument… still I thought they at least looked the part.
appreciate the feedback.
