//// pictures of our sound-making machines ////

[bmoren]

I’ve got some for sale, pm me for details!
not available as a kit as of yet, perhaps sometime in the future. For now I’m treating it more as a part of my art practice and as a small run object.

[Myles_Avery]

Beautiful! Who makes that case?

[xenus_dad]

I’m psyched about this little system I’m bringing on a scuba trip next week.

[kin.sventa]

system complete !! got my crow in the rack !! this is a 84 hp koma case. at first, i took the wood side panels off and mounted the power on the side, this got me an extra 6 hp. i then thought " why not mount another module on the OTHER side !!?? " so i installed ansible. i then covered it in Japanese wrapping paper. finally, i covered two of my peaks module’s front panels in wrapping paper along with adding bigger knobs.

[DoS]

The Monotron Delay is the best for these sorts of little setups; I’ve also recently been enjoying the Monotron Duo for filtering drum machines too.

[robotboot]

Newest addition to the sound making family.

[Album] Collin Diederich

[smutek]

Congratulations! ^^^^

Here’s a worm’s-eye view of my sound factory.

[vargasz]

Four on the floor

Dark remix

Creepy pano pic

Wave folding and time stretching

[timp]

my eBow army

[yobink]

Ok now that I have to hear!

[ElectricaNada]

That looks fun. I would guess that six ebows on one zither would basically get all the strings moving though, right?

[timp]

sympathetic resonance to varying degrees based on tuning… of course the strings that the eBows are actually sitting on dont play, so they are effectively muted…

its quite an odd zither, as you can see on the right hand side there are four sets of four strings which are tuned to chords… the strings on left hand side are just the white notes

my favourite sound from this session was actually more simple - just two strings/eBows with very, very slight detuning = very slow beating tones = hypnotic

[_mark]

of course the strings that the eBows are actually sitting on dont play

Of course…! funny, today I was recording with some of the new LOM Elektroucho, thinking of ways to mount two of them on some mechanical device that could move them in slow oscillations over sound sources - strikes me this could be interesting for your e-bows too. Is this something you’ve explored?

[timp]

I used a camera motion control unit by SYRP on a camera slider with an Elektroluch attached to it, to do automated slow moves across EMF emitters… skip to 1’58" in this vid, theres a shot tracking the Eletroluch across laptop keyboard using motion control (Elektroluch is on an arm, to avoid picking up the SYRP Genies motor EMF)

With eBow it would be a little more difficult as motion control is not silent (the motion controllers motor makes audible noise) so it would pollute acoustic recordings…

But doing it manually eg slowly sliding eBow along a string, you can hear it alter the tonality as it crosses nodes and antinodes etc… The only difference between Elektroluch and an eBow is there is some lag with an eBow - its takes a few seconds for the string to respond to an eBow, whereas EMF emitters are constant so doppler/movement is immediate

[ElectricaNada]

A transducer might be more effective than an ebow, depending on the specifics of the installation. Certainly much cheaper.

[maf]

Video about this set!
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[sellanraa]

Duet with my pal Jim last night. He is playing his clarinet into that Mouse on Mars app on his phone here. He’s about to leave for a month long tour of Europe mostly playing in State Champion, and a few of his other band Tropical Trash. Peep their zones.

[ecfike]

My Magnus chord organ

[Starthief]

I had that exact model when I was a kid. Sometimes I think about picking up another one

[Rodrigo]

Ordered a gieskes Zachteman kit the other week and after some eBay hunting found a suitable walkman. I wasn’t expecting it to be new/unused in the original (pristine condition) box…

I don’t need or care about the box, just feels weird chucking it though!