Sight And Sound Combine In This Engaging Synthesizer Sculpture
We’ll generally have a delicate place for circuit sculpture tasks something with factors supported on great tidy rows of brass wires usually captures our imagination. But include to that a minimal little bit of gentle and a large amount of audio, and you get something like this hybrid synthesizer sculpture that truly commands focus.
[Eirik Brandal] phone calls his generation “corwin point,” and describes it as “a generative twin voice analog synthesizer.” It is designed with a extensive-open up architecture that invites exploration and serves to pull the eyes — and ears — into the piece. The least expensive level of the sculpture has all the “boring” digital stuff — an ESP32, the LED motorists, and the electronic-to-analog converters. The up coming degree up has the extra visually attention-grabbing analog circuits, crafted mostly “dead-bug” design on a framework of brass wires. The person interface, predominantly a collection of pots and switches, life on this degree, as does a SeeedStudio WIO terminal, which is made use of to display screen a spectrum analyzer of the seems produced.
Relocating up a little bit, there is a seemingly incongruous vacuum tube overdrive alongside with a ability amp and speaker in an acrylic enclosure. A vertical element of thick acrylic towers above all and houses the synth’s delay line, and the gentle pipes that snake by the sculpture pulse in time with sequencer gatherings. The video below exhibits the synth in motion — the tunes that it generates in no way truly seems the same two times, and seems like very little we’ve listened to just before, except probably briefly when we listened to anything like the qualifications music from Logan’s Run.
Hats off to [Eirik] for another good-looking and wonderful-sounding establish you might remember that his “cwymriad” caught our focus earlier this year.