A pandemic experiment, my friend Dan Gorelick calls this set up “The Monolith.”
I wanted to try using live coding as the main sequencer for hardware synths (I do a lot of pure live coding without any external hardware). There’s a small hidden mac mini computer on the backside I found on Craiglist free hooked up to the CRTs, which used ORCA and Tidal Cycles to control everything.
Everything is mounted on an industrial kitchen shelf cart rescued from a scrap heap repainted white.
The giant synth on the bottom, an Italian GRP A4, was rescued from a recording studio upstate that was going out of business. They said it had never worked and if I could fix it I could take it. Turned out it was just one bad solder that when fixed was all good.
I’ve ended up rethinking The Monolith as currently arranged, haven’t really found the fusion creatively productive, I find myself missing typical hardware controls or just living within a computer live coding. But I learned a ton about what can be found for free out in the world. And about how much fun it is to make Nam June Paik-esque TV sculptures