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[papernoise]

I’ve been working on an album for some time now. I’m not entirely sure what the core concept of it is, but it’s got to do with exploring the sound of various objects through looping, sampling and collaging. They also somehod all relate to my childhood memories, or sometimes the lack of them.
Took those photos a bit after the fact I admit. It’s mostly to remind myself what I have used, and maybe they can turn out to be useful if I ever release the thing.
Colours need fixing though.

[Jensu]

Is that an ACTUAL oil can reverb?

[papernoise]

Even better, it’s an organic extra virgin olive oil can reverb!
unfortunately it doesn’t sound very reverby, at least not yet. I think I’d need a bigger oil can or maybe it’s just the placement of the microphone. It’s got fun sound as a speaker though.

[Samekid]

Why do you feel it is important, to create your own sound sources, or instruments and effects?

[yobink]

Cool! I am loving mine in a big way. The Shuttle Control is a bit confusing at first, as most of the channels are preset for multiple voices, but it handle polyphony really elegantly, so you can send a bunch of CV and gate data at it on the same midi channel and it allocates the voices in a very musical way. So this works great for the norns sequencers that only send on 1 midi channel yet are polyphonic. Here’s some stuff I did yesterday, sequencing the shuttle and an 0-coast with the OP-Z, using shuttle control preset 3 (for 3 voices over 1 midi channel). Let me know if I can help out in any way, have fun!

[papernoise]

Why do you feel it is important, to create your own sound sources, or instruments and effects?

Sounds like a pretty broad question, which would likely deseve its own thread. Not sure we want to derail this one by embarking on such a discussion.
It’s an interesting quesiton though.

You might want to check these somewhat related thread before creating a new topic, though. Maybe the question has been discussed already:

Do you make your own instruments?

Do you make your own instruments? What impact has it had on the way you make music?

Making stand alone modular instruments

Continuing the discussion from //// pictures ////: These ideas about planning/arranging modular instruments seemed like it might be a good thread… so I’m starting one (If there’s one already that I couldn’t find through search feel free to merge). I’d love to hear people’s thoughts and processes on creating stand alone modular instruments… Right now I have a 12U 104hp case, but sometimes it feels unwieldy. I’m drawn to the idea of a set of smaller purpose built cases, but whenev…

Homemade instruments

Did you make an instrument? Post some pictures and/or sounds here! I got excited today as I just finished making this Gieskes inspired Quad VU Percussion case/module/instrument, which made me wonder about what crazy things you guys made… Seems like it could be an exciting thread for vthe ||||||||, no? [image] [image] [image] Here is a muff wiggler thread for the project: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1858031#1858031

[pulplogic]

I am intrigued by the olive oil can reverb and would love to hear more about it. These photos are super inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

This morning I’m playing around with striking springs with a hard drive actuator.

[scazan]

New mixerless setup for me in a new’ish space. Still mostly digital these days (not pictured well: SuperCollider and JACK).

[RMBLRX]

I love that contact mic’d kazoo. I’ve done a bit with contact mics but never thought to try that. Seems so obvious now, to see one built.

[Struggle]

Great sounds! Can’t wait to dig in and will most likely take you up on that offer for help. Thanks!

[autreland]

if you’re willing to share, i’d love to hear some sounds featuring that violin!

[papernoise]

I am intrigued by the olive oil can reverb and would love to hear more about it. These photos are super inspiring. Thank you for sharing.

I’ll try to record something once I have some more tests. Let’s see if I can get it to work!

This morning I’m playing around with striking springs with a hard drive actuator.

Very interesting! Is there springs mounted onto the actuator that hit the springs on the reverb tank?

I love that contact mic’d kazoo. I’ve done a bit with contact mics but never thought to try that. Seems so obvious now, to see one built.

I myself saw one online and thought kind of the same thing. I have to add that something is weird with my build. Maybe it’s just a crappy piezo, but I get a bad low frequency hum. Also one thing I hadn’t properly considered is that I have to create a new exit for air&sound, now that the piezo is covering the original one.

[Rodrigo]

Oh nice.

What are the arm things?

[scazan]

of course! this one features it fairly prominently: https://awavepress.bandcamp.com/album/ingress

[pulplogic]

This morning I’m playing around with striking springs with a hard drive actuator.

Very interesting! Is there springs mounted onto the actuator that hit the springs on the reverb tank?

Thanks! The actuator holds a short length of music wire and the motor holds a few strands of snare wire. I just recorded a video showing the actuator mods and some play.

[shortsleeves]

Another one from last night. This time the Organelle was a looper (Overloop), processor (reverb), and generator (gendy + rngs) – all in Orac 2.0. The small DOD mixers allow me to set different levels for Tetrax’s attack/release signal, use the individual oscillators’ outputs, and add a contact microphone to boot All in all, it’s quite a powerful setup.

[fluxmonkey]

a real loss for the DIY community when he passed… his enthusiasm and generosity were exemplary.

[papernoise]

Thanks! The actuator holds a short length of music wire and the motor holds a few strands of snare wire. I just recorded a video showing the actuator mods and some play.

Very cool sounds! Thanks a lot for sharing this and showing us how you made it!

In the meantime, I’ve posted a bit more about the oil can reverb in the Transducers / Exciter Speaker in case you want to hear some recordings of how it sounds.

[Lemmy]

Absolutely. Sorry to see that his website is now offline. I wonder if it is archived anywhere?
(I shouldn’t take this thread off-topic - I guess there are DIY threads where this could be picked up.)

[fluxmonkey]

still there, i think: http://musicfromouterspace.com/