DIY Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer (testing)

D I R T Y
L O - F I
D I Y

*Patching, tweaking, and harnessing some interesting sounds here (at least for me) for a demo. Twas very addictive. Audio/Video was captured using a crappy digicam. Speaker use is a cheap PC subwoofer, also there is a feedback loop/loopception on 6 channel analog mixer for additional textures and noise. 

//Looking forward to expand it and build more or another. :)

MODULES:

VCO - 2x (Atari Junk Console)
ADSR (Envelope Generator)
VCF
LFO - 2x (Triangle & Square)
Ring Modulator
3x3 Passive Matrix Mixer
RC-LPF
White Noise Generator (not use in the video)
VCA (under construction)
10 Step Sequencer (on breadboard, will solder soon)

Thanks for watching! d[0-0]b

"Our entire biological system, the brain and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies." ~ Nikola Tesla

*Now i know why a system like this gets bigger and bigger in a basement or in a bed room like an organic matter, because right now i'm very lustful to get more "ins-outs" to insert and knobs to twiddle or is it just the fume from soldering that i became addicted to? Either way it is...

"[cos] It's not enough.
I need more.
Nothing seems to satisfy.
I said
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To breathe, To feel, to know I'm alive.

Finger deep within the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Relax, turn around and take my hand.

Knuckle deep inside the borderline.
This may hurt a little but it's something you'll get used to.
Relax. Slip away.

I'll keep digging
Till I feel something.

Elbow deep inside the borderline.
Show me that you love me and that we belong together.
Shoulder deep within the borderline.
Relax. Turn around and take my hand." ~ STINKFIST [TOOL]

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Music Review: Routines, Rituals, & Repetitions EP

Act I: The Subterranean Chapter

"43684259A+!M"

Synthesist | Electronics

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Lowercase Music/Sound Art

This surprise us, our track Maxwell's Demon was featured in this Youtube blog (above). d[-_]b

To the team of This Exists Youtube channel, thank you for recognizing our humble and not so accurate (work) contribution to the Lowercase genre. Keep existing! :)

below is our track: Maxwell's Demon

Noise Music|Feedback Loop|Sound Sculpture

Strange Noise in the Sky ~ Gen Thalz

*All parts of this audio-video experiment was created out of feedback signals recorded live.

-The sound is a sculpted feedback signals coming from all the hardware stated below looping and controlling each other, the mixer and the effects pedal is solely the one acting as oscillator or sound/tone generator. There is no external sound sources, all is coming from within the hardware natural hiss, hum, buzz etc. noises.  And by patching cables
and arranging every equipment in different ways, the possibilities are endless, almost like a semi-modular synthesizer.
We try to be gentle with outmost care as possible twiddling and manipulating the knob because just a slight of a turn can
change the form, tone, timbre, volume and pitch of the frequencies.

Hardware:

1.Analog Mixer
2.Mini Synth Delay Effects
3.Chorus Stompbox
4.Vibrato Stompbox
5.DIY Feedback Looper


-The visuals is also a feedback signals coming from a camera staring at its-self or by its own monitor creating loop
and a slight delay on its output. The results is very generative and may vary using different types of camera and t.v.,
the equipment we used is stated below. By pointing the camera at different angles and zooming it in or out, it can creates
a vast variety of organic-geometrical-fractal shapes, designs, and patterns as if one is on a wonderland trance-like altered-state visions. We put together here some of the videoclips that we created.

Equipment:

1.SLR Camera
2.CRT TV
3.LCD TV


"Sometimes it was enough to barely touch one of the recording or playback potentiometers to develop a sound. It was in this way, i think, that i discovered the pleasure of a work made with the tips of the toes or rather the fingers, and above all in looking for a certain kind of sound." ~ Eliane Radigue [electronic music composer]

DIY Electronic Music Instrument

Dual oscillator with 8 step sequencer, 2 LFO and mild fuzz

Sound Title: "intron"

*A little improvise jam with voltage and frequencies using our recent hand job electronic music instrument, we don't know how to end it so we just fade out... ;)

 

intron_

 

*still.frame

Codon (microsound/granular synthesis) ~ Gen Thalz

*Please use headphones

“Beneath the level of the note lies the realm of sound particles. Each particle is a pinpoint of sound.” ~ Curtis Roads (electroacoustic composer/computer programmer)
 

The idea is to apply the method of granular synthesis but we didn’t use any granulator or software synthesis available today. What we do is like a sonic pointillism, we grab a small pieces of sounds (about 3 to 30 milliseconds) out of our chosen sample sounds then clone or combine those sound particles repeatedly to achieve a desire sounds by doing some time and pitch shifting.

Then just like music concrete, we arrange those sounds rhythmically and randomly, time/pitch shift several of it again, and apply some delay and reverb into some of it.

The process is very tedious but overwhelmingly satisfying if you’re into sound designs.

Ingredients:

-          Sound Particles

1.Short porn video clip converted to mp3

2.Recorded sound under the bed at exactly 3am

3.Toy keyboard circuitbent sound

For the visuals, we cut a small part (about 27x15 in dimensions) out of our “Bits and Glitches 3” illustration then tweak it, rotate, rescale, and animate it. The result is very organic and mystic.

ROM (Reboot Our Minds) ~ Gen Thalz

Another analog session

with live circuit bending and DIY kit

feat. the voice of Mr. Terence McKenna (shaman, psychonaut, ethnobotanist)

*This is the second part of his speech in the video:

Catalysts to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language and whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience which is a fancy term which just simply means we have to stop consuming our culture. We have to create culture.

Don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time, where you are now, is the most immediate sector of your universe and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, you are disempowered. You are giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media, so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y or something. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.

That is all cultural diversion and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, and your fears... and we are told no, we're unimportant, we're peripheral, "get a degree", "get a job", get a this, get a that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world. Where is that at?

DIY Mini Analog Bass Synth (demo)

Music, video, and DIY/Circuit Bent by Gen Thalz 

- This is our version of the simple Toy Organ schematic, we reverse engineer it to make it sound more bass-y.

- It is a open circuit 7 key analog bass synth, it means you can add more key if you like or some stuff like filters, white noise, etc.

- It has a pitch pot so you can adjust the tone level that you want, and of course volume control.

*The melody in the video is purely improvise not preconceive or plan, and the droning sound coming from the amplifier is not intentional. We like it so we keep it.

DIY Electronic Music

This Machine (minimal acid glitch) 

Live at The Bedroom 09.23.2013

DIY ELECTRONIC MUSIC: Atari Punk Console with dual monostable and 8 step sequencer

Handmade, Handcraft, Handjob.

Music, video, and performed by Gen Thalz

*This is our realization of the Atari Punk Console (original schematic by Forrest M. Mims III). We modified and circuit bent it by adding one more monostable oscillator.  The 8 step sequencer is based on the Baby 10 Analog Step Sequencer schematic, we just reduced it to 8 step and used a simple 555 timer as a clock.

- All the sounds in the video was created/generated by random tweaking, knobbing, hand grounding of this synth.

- Sounds is coming out from the amplifier.

- No special effects, secret techniques, and formula or other traditional instrument was used. Just pure imagination and modulation.

Fact: We really don’t know how it sounds like that. We just experimented with the values of other components like resistors and capacitors. This simple synthesizer is not so stable, it sound different every once in a while. Our suspicion is because it is not yet solder, the 9v battery is almost draining, or because it is our first attempt to do something like this. What you just saw and heard is an actual live improvisation with the circuit, very generative and cannot be repeated because it has no specific pattern which knobs and parameters to turn. We just go with the flow of the electricity and frequencies. Also there is a glitch, Knob #1 is not fully functioning.

Metadata (bytebeat, post digital, 8 bit/chiptune)

Music, Codes, and Video by Gen Thalz

Further down the hole of glitch, sound art, and minimal electronic music.

a sound/music from binary world.

Audio-Visual is purely made from esoteric programming language, random coding, and algorithm.

*No traditional music instruments, notes, scales, special effects, cut and paste, sound generator, circuit bending, editing, animation, paint etc. were used in the making of this music video.

Fact: We really don't know what we're doing here or how does it works, what we created here is just a result of observation, trial and error, and basic knowledge of the commands/arithmetics/characters for the program to function.

The code we used is one liner only.

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