Friday, May 23, 2025
chiming with the breeze: wind as control voltage
video upload by Electrum Modular
"I’ve been wondering what it would be like to use a wind gauge as a source of random modulation for a modular synthesizer. Surprisingly, there’s nothing on the modular stores and forums about this, but I went ahead and purchased a cheap anemometer and spent an afternoon patching an electronic 'wind chime' in the local park. Field recording of the wind rustling leaves and birds chirping was added to the mix in Logic.
My new album:
Stuff mentioned in this video:
Yosoo Wind Sensor Trans, Anemometer (unfortunately no longer $40!)
Addac’s Swell Physics module (see my video: [posted here]
Instruo’s Scion module
Koma Electronic’s Sensei module (+ temperature and light sensors)
Books referred to:
Don Ihde, Heidegger, Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives (New York: Fordham University Press, 2010) Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation, trans. Stephen Barker (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)
David M. Kaplan, ed., Philosophy, Technology, and the Environment (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017)"
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Quintron, the New Orleans-based musician and inventor, has been performing with numerous iterations of his homemade synthesizers that are “played” by sensors triggered by wind, rain, sunlight, humidity, and more. The instrument is called the Weather Warlock.
ReplyDeleteFrom his site weatherfortheblind.org:
“Since 2011 Quintronics – the company who introduced the Drum Buddy in 1999 – has been actively developing a low voltage weather controlled drone synthesizer. Base station number 1, called WEATHER WARLOCK was finally finished in the Spring of 2014 at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, Florida. Weather Warlock evolved out of an earlier project Called Weather Witch.”