"Gordon Monahan uses fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesizer built with ppooll-max/msp and an arduino interface. Performed live at the Subtle Technologies Festival, on board a cruise ship in Toronto Harbour, June 5, 2010.
The Sauerkraut Synthesizer is based on a technical prototype using lemons (The Lemon Synthesizer), developed as a collaboration between Gordon Monahan, Akemi Takeya, and Noid, in Vienna, March, 2009."
Sounds and the Machines That Make Them
gordogordo56 | August 28, 2009 |
"Installation performance by Gordon Monahan at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, presented by the DAAD Inventionen Festival, 1994"
"The filter on this synth is magical - same as the Korg Polysix. Great way to get that classic analog sound for less than you'd spend on some of the more popular synths like the Juno-60, Polysix, etc. 8-voice polyphony. Stackable DCO waveshapes with sub-oscillator. Portamento, Glissando, Mono and poly modes. Synth is in nice physical shape, fully functional except the end-caps have some chew on them. It's been serviced, battery replaced, key contacts cleaned and it works 100%. The only downside to this synth is the ensemble effect will overdrive (distort unpleasantly) pretty easily, which is common on the Junos as well (I have had 4 Juno-106s and 3 Juno-60s), but the Junos seem to have more headroom. I can't be sure if this is a factor of age or a design quirk, as I've never played another SX-210, but in practical use you have to back off the VCA volume if you get distortion as the VCA runs before the Ensemble effect."