NOISY JELLY

NOISY JELLY from Raphaël Pluvinage on Vimeo.

"Note : This project is a fully working prototype made with Arduino and Max/Msp, there are absolut no sound editing in the video...

More picture at this flickr set (flickr.com/photos/raphaelplu/sets/72157629621382055/)
And download the Project pdf here (pluvinage.eu/NOISYJELLY_presskit.pdf)

Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly.

With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board,and by touching the shape, the gamer will activate different sounds.

Technically, the game board is a capacitive sensor, and the variations of the shape and their salt concentration, the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal.
This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented.

Author: Raphaël pluvinage (pluvinage.eu and twitter (twitter.com/#!/rpluvina)
& Marianne Cauvard (mariannecauvard.fr)
at L'Ensci Les ateliers (ensci.com)

Thanks to Roland Cahen for his help (especially sorting out with Max/Msp)

Photo credit: Véronique HUYGHE
Music credit : "Whip it" of Devo"

This one in via Brian Comnes & Semai Basho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.

THE ROBOTS BASS.MOV

YouTube Uploaded by ux256 on Mar 27, 2012

"SOUND OF BASS LENI OF THE ROBOTS NADE WITH NORDWAVE SYNTHESIZER AND SEQUENCED WITH DOEPFER DARK TIMEANALOG SEQUENCER"

MFB Nanozwerg analogue monophonic synth

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"ONE VCO (FOUR WAVEFORMS) - ONE SUB-OSCILLATOR (SQUARE OR NOISE WAVEFORM) - ONE MULTIMODE 12dB/oct FILTER (CAPABLE OF SELF-OSCILLATION) - LFO WITH ONE-SHOT FUNCTION - MIDI AND CV/GATE INPUTS - SOME SEMI-MODULAR SYNTH FUNCTIONALITY - AUDIO INPUT (PROCESS OTHER SOUNDS WITH FILTER!) - ALL-IN-ALL A TIDY LITTLE SYNTH PACKED WITH A LOT OF FEATURES!!!"

Black Face Racked Oberheim FVS Four Voice System SN E418186

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Update: via lars on FB: emu patch panel. You can see the classic emu modular blue.

"For sale is a one of a kind Oberheim FVS Four Voice System SEM analog synthesizer. These are the original vintage ones. Custom black face rack mounted. I believe there may be only 8 black faces out there?? Very very rare. An oberheim tech who built these told me these were once part of an Eight Voice System. There is no keyboard, it's four SEMs racked, but fully patched out, modular style interface with 1/4" jacks (full patch points listed below). Awesome sound, these vintage SEMs have their own sound and it's a little more raw than the newer ones. With the modular patching this makes it much more flexible than having to use the keyboard. You can run separate sequencers in each voice, stack them as one four voice mono synth, or split them in 2/2 3/1 combinations, or play it as four separate mono synths. I've always wanted to build a nice case for this, but never found the time. I leave that project tho the future owner. This was serviced two years ago and is fully functional, lightly used in my smoke free home studio.

Patching from left to right:
Mod Out, Mod In, VCO CV1 in, CV2 in, VCO2 CV1 in, CV2 in, Gate Env1 in/out, Env2 in/out
VCA IN, LFO IN/OUT, VCF CV1/CV2, MOD IN, FREQ, and 5 Multi jacks. Ext. in, voice volume and panning is on the back of the synth."

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Sequential Circuits Prophet 600

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Vintage Ace Tone FR-1 Rhythm Ace Analog Drum Machine

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SN 55016

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Simmons SDS5 with Kenton MIDI Retrofit

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"This is it people the sound behind the opening of Eastenders and the Pussycat Dolls' 'Don't Cha' kick! This is the Moog of drum synths. This one is extra special because it has the Kenton MIDI retrofit. It's the last one they sold and installed in 2002. The brain is clean and sounds great. Trigger it analog or via MIDI to phatten up your acoustic sound a'la Dave Weckl 'Chick Corea Electrik Band'"

Emu Sp1200 Sampler SN 0981037

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Emu 4XT Ultra Sampler Synthesizer SN 090001427

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Hand made Mini Synthesizer Chaotic

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"The Chaos Engine is a 5 oscillator mini synth. Despite it's lo-fi discrete transistor design and very simple panel layout, it can produce a huge variety of sound textures. These range from simple bleepy melodies reminiscent of The Silver Apples, to fractal noise and spluttering sonic convulsions similar to the sound of fax machines or old computer tapes. Because of it's fractal-like qualities, the slightest microscopic knob turn can totally change the sound.

The Chaos Engine has 3 basic modes of operation:

1 No sync.
The oscillators do not influence each other. In this mode it is like a primitive keyboard,only with the added creative possibilities of being able to tune the notes individually.

2 Harmonic sync.
The oscillators are all synchronized to oscillator 1. As you turn the tuning knobs the pitch will not glide as normal; instead you will hear a series of harmonics, sometimes very musical and strange undertone scales.

3 Chaotic sync.
The oscillators all try to sync to each other. This is controlled by the chaos depth knob and produces the widest variety of sounds.

Size: 19.5cm x 13.5cm
Power: 9v standard 2.1mm power supply socket."

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