Folktek Art The Luminist Garden

via this auction
See the Folktek label at the bottom of this post for more including video of The Luminist Garden.

"The Garden is a conceptual sound art work and a phenomenal instrument for extending micro sounds into waves or generating odd sounds based on an accoustic source. The Garden is a part of the electrocoustic section of the works of Arius Blaze. Please go here to see more: http://ariusblaze.com/electrocoustic.html

This work is an expanded version of the Micro Garden, capable of making lush choral waves and entire compositions as a standalone work. The expanded soundboard has multiple pick ups that run into the delay - which offers time settings from extremely tight notated repeats to about 1.5 seconds with undecaying feedback that essentially acts as a looper allowing one to make beats by tapping the board and plucking or rubbing the strings.


The delay runs into a very lush and unusual reverb that has the ability to act more as a wave generator, creating waves that can endlessly extend and are based on the original note but with the ability to pitch shift the feedback, resulting in something like the NI effect called "convolution".
The result is rich electronic music from an accoustic source. Sweet ambience. Stereo out.
There are sound samples on the blog page: http://folktek.blogspot.com/2010/01/luminist-garden.html, each a single take with no editing or external effects.

The feedback can be adjusted to generate long perfect extentions of micro sounds to become waves then captured in long format if desired. There is as much musical potential as there is a potential for strange sounds - bits of waves can be strecthed in real time and become distant-relative abstractions of themselves.

There has not been a single displeased buyer of the any of the Garden series - it is an extremely solid conceptual work with a huge sound.

This piece runs on supplied 9v power adapter, stereo 1/4" output to amp or mixer, custom folktek hardwood box with jointery, custom lamps and switch."