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A new modular approach, using Cornish granite, CNC cut circuit boards and a lot of magnets. | A new modular approach, using Cornish granite, CNC cut copper circuit boards and a lot of magnets. | ||
Theory and rules: | |||
* Trying to give a voice to 370 million year old electronic components. | |||
* Changing/adjusting the crystal should have a clear result in most circumstances - they need to be in the centre of the circuit, so e.g. taking them away stops the sound. | |||
* Specially made cat's whiskers mounted in Cornish granite to make the minerals the focus of a live performance. | |||
* Incorporate 1920s crystal wireless technology. | |||
* No tuning. | |||
Practice: | |||
* PCBs glued to neodymium magnets and can be rearranged inside a repurposed tool box (protects them during travelling/storage). | |||
* Extensive use of vactrols. | |||
* Sequencing via simple building blocks, binary counters and shift registers. | |||
* Syncs with analogue synths via pulse train. | |||
* Works well with volca modular. | |||
* Inputs/outputs are signal, +4.5V, 0V, -4.5V. Other voltage ranges also work (the diode ladder filter needs at least this much to work). | |||
= Modules = | = Modules = | ||
Revision as of 15:34, 26 June 2026
A new modular approach, using Cornish granite, CNC cut copper circuit boards and a lot of magnets.
Theory and rules:
- Trying to give a voice to 370 million year old electronic components.
- Changing/adjusting the crystal should have a clear result in most circumstances - they need to be in the centre of the circuit, so e.g. taking them away stops the sound.
- Specially made cat's whiskers mounted in Cornish granite to make the minerals the focus of a live performance.
- Incorporate 1920s crystal wireless technology.
- No tuning.
Practice:
- PCBs glued to neodymium magnets and can be rearranged inside a repurposed tool box (protects them during travelling/storage).
- Extensive use of vactrols.
- Sequencing via simple building blocks, binary counters and shift registers.
- Syncs with analogue synths via pulse train.
- Works well with volca modular.
- Inputs/outputs are signal, +4.5V, 0V, -4.5V. Other voltage ranges also work (the diode ladder filter needs at least this much to work).