::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor

::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Zig-Zag - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/zig.html

Volfram - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/vol.html"

::vtol:: Volfram controlled by Haken Continuum through Zig-Zag circuit bending CV/GATE processor (modular by Alex Pleninger) from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

::vtol:: "egophone"

::vtol:: "egophone" from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

::vtol:: EGOphone - sound bot that use Facebook, Twitter and VK likes, shares and other notifications to activate the glitch sermon from Osho.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/egophone

"hardware:

- servo motor

- arduino uno

- piezo disk

- 2 channel sound system

- luminescent lamp

- relay

soft:

- Pure Data

- Chrome

Moscow, 2014"

::vtol:: Apparel B/N drone machine demo1

::vtol:: Apparel B/N drone machine demo1 from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

more info - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/apparel.html

::vtol:: Apparel B/N drone machine demo2 from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

::vtol:: red

::vtol:: red from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

A new creation from ::vtol:: based on the concepts and ideas of light-sound objects from 60-80s

See http://vtol.cc/red for the inspiration behind this project and additional details. The following is a short excerpt on the functional aspects.

"The object works autonomously, by algorithm with many accidental events tied to feedback, with sensors defining the position of various mechanical elements in relation to the range of their movement. The sound part has up to 4 voices which depend on the activity of various elements. The sound is also in direct interaction with actual position of those elements, and basically is voicing the process of movement, brightness of light, and intensity of the piece.

hard:

- 3 servo motors
- DC motor
- stepper motor
- 2 channel sound system
- arduino
- raspberry pi 2

soft:

- pure data
- python scripts

Moscow/Trondheim, 2016"

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::vtol:: "financial risks"

::vtol:: "financial risks" from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"An audiovisual installation that reacts when you swipe your credit card and prints glitch-receipt if you type in your pin-code.

Interactive audiovisual installation "Financial Risks"

After almost a half-century long history of existence of plastic cards with a magnet stripe, they have become a real symbol of automation and encryption of money resources and financial flows. At the same time, cards also became the object of phobias and fetishes of their owners,transforming into a sensitive body part responsible for welfare encrypted on a little magnet stripe and protected with a 4-digit numeric passcode. 'Financial Risks' installation is a project designed to present an ironical viewpoint on encoded wallets as a data input interface which invites to overcome fear of impbossility to control spread of confidential information for the sake of curiosity of interaction with an object of art. The most daring users after entering the pin code will receive an artefact printout from a little cash register printer with the screenshot of the result of their play with the instrument.

The piece consists of 6 bank card readers,a hardware system of sound and video synthesis, a keyboard for pin code entering, a 2-channel sound system and a cash register printer configured to print images. Up to 6 cards simultaneously may be used for playing.

more photos - http://samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/risks.html

::vtol:: Moscow, 2013

http://vtol.tk

special for Kod Epohi festival - http://www.kodepohi.ru/"

Update: some pics.

::vtol:: sonometer

::vtol:: sonometer from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

A new mechanical sonic creation from ::vtol::

"page - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/sonometer

Sonometer is an automatic sound object (monochord) which changes string pitch (tension) by using an ultra-slow motor. It takes 40 minutes to reach the highest note and 36 minutes to drop it down. Because of extremely low speed, it's almost impossible to recognize changes of the pitch in the realtime, only by comparing the pitch after at least 30 seconds.

It uses electromagnetic coil feedback bow aka eBow to activate the string and piezo pickup. Additional electromagnetic solenoid is used as retrigger and random rhythmical element."

"Time is one of the most complex issues in contemporary sound art. On the one hand the category of time has always served as dividing line, separating music (as a particular form of sound art) from a number of other sub-types of creative interpretation of sound. On the other hand, this measure is used to indicate the extent of the audience’s engagement in the perception of a work of art: whether this is performance art, a musical performance or listening to a sound installation.

Recently I have been creating more and more frequently works arranged around some virtually imperceptible or insignificant processes and phenomena. To all intents and purposes, this is based on the practice of seeking the boundaries of perception and the frontiers of the feasible, which is on each occasion transformed into an attempt to reduce to its logical conclusion a work of art, whose concept emerges from similar studies.

Sonometer is simultaneously a sound installation and instrument, a homage to the heritage of Alvin Lucier and reference to contemporary sound object automation experiments. The super-slow engine draws out over 40 minutes one single string which oscillates in response to an electromagnetic bow. The speed of uptake of the tone is so insignificant that the difference in the pitch can only be perceived after the passage of a certain amount of time. After attaining the maximum tension point, the reverse process starts, taking in total 36 minutes."

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the finger

the finger from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Performance for touch and sound.

Sonohaptic (by Jakub Koźniewski) is a machine that links tactile sensations with sound by moving the robotic head equipped with piezo sensor along the arm of the person, picking up tiny vibrations translating them to audio. One-finger (by ::vtol::) is a wireless controller allows to produce sound by using just one finger equipped with various sensors. The two combined allow to control the sonohaptic movements with movement of the finger of the performer - who touches another person trough a machine thus producing „sonohaptical' experience.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/the-finger

Authors:

::vtol:: [RU]
Jakub Kozniewski (member of panGenerator) [PL]

CTM festival MusicMakers Hacklab, Berlin 2015"

software:

Processing, PureData, Arduino, Nord Modular

hardware:

sonohaptic - 3-axis machine, piezo disc

arduino one-finger - bend sensor, sonar, tilt sensors, pulse-sensor, bluetooth module, Nord Modular

Authors:

::vtol:: [RU]
Jakub Kozniewski (member of panGenerator) [PL]

CTM festival MusicMakers Hacklab, Berlin 2015

::vtol:: conus

::vtol:: conus from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"biological and digital cellular automata generative audiovisual installation

more info

Pattern analysis - VVVV

Video generators and processors - DIY Cellular Automata Video synth (code by critter and guitari), ::vtol:: tv-404

Sound - DIY synths, Clavia Nord Modular g2, 6-channel sound system

Other equipment - steel, motors, plastic, DIY microscopes and electronics.

Special thanks to: Alexandra Gavrilova (stain.ws), Boris Kislitsin.

Laboratoria Art&Science, Moscow, 2013"

"The project is based on the use of the so-called cellular automata as a starting point for the creation of audio and video images in real time. Despite cellular automata have been used in algorithmic art for some years, whether that be music or genres associated with visual images, their huge potential as systems that allow most visually feel the power of the meaning of of the postulate “< = >” (less means more), in my opinion, still remain not fully uncovered..."

Full details on vtol here.

::vtol:: Ra

::vtol:: Ra from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Ra is a sound object / synthesizer which uses laser for scanning the irregularities of the surface of the pyrite disc and further transforms this data to produce sound. Pyrite disc is a rare form of pyrite which is crystallised in radial shape (as unusual disc spherulites) which also was named ‘pyrite suns’ or ‘pyrite dollars’. The only deposit where pyrites of such morphology are found is in Illinois state (USA). Pyrite suns were formed around 300 million years ago.

more information and images - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/Ra"

"This project originated as a result of an interesting set of circumstances – a pyrite disc was given to me as a gift by a mineral seller in Boulder city (USA). Upon hearing about my works, she asked to do something with such crystal, and refused to take payment for getting it. In the same period, I was reading articles on various ways of archiving and preservation of sounds from the first, historical sources of the recorded sound – wax discs and other fragile carriers. All technologies were based on the usage of lasers. Inspired by these projects, I set out to create a self-made laser sound reader which would be able to produce sound from various uneven surfaces, using minimal resources to achive it. Thus emerged the idea to construct an instrument using the pyrite disc and a self-made laser sound reader.

The realisation of the object became possible thanks to the commission of the Sound Museum in St.-Petersburg which has it in its collection now.

I consider this object to be a landmark for me, as it united several practices and technical skills which I was working on in the last years - as well as the new resources and ideas which I approach for the first time. I.e. – creation of the synthesizers and sound objects, collecting minerals, topic of rotation, Pure Data programming, Arduino and Python, working with servo and stepper motors, raspberry pi and lasers, etc.

What is also important for me in this project is adressing the topic of occult futurology as a concept which corresponds in the best way my own artistic practices. In the first place, it can be seen in how Ra works with the perception of time – having pre-historic 'unearthly' mineral as its base, it adresses medieval times through the notion of alchemy; it also carries Bach organ motives, further bringing us to the echoes of the electronic instruments of middle of the 20th century, underlining all of this with lasers, code, noise and autonomy, all brought up in handicraft conditions."

See previous posts featuring vtol's works here on MATRIXSYNTH.

hardware:

- raspberry pi (with pure data)
- arduino nano
- diy laser pickup
- spin fv-1 dsp
- stepper motor
- servo motor
- 3W mono sound system

specification:

- line audio output
- 9 control switchers
- 10 control knobs (including envelope, filter, processors parameters and modulations)
- disk speed and direction control (via control knob)
- pickup position control
- 16 dsp fx programs

::vtol:: ivy - 240 Step Sequencer

::vtol:: ivy from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

The latest creation from ::vtol::.

"Interactive sound installation. Sequencer-synthesizer with 240 steps, that allows to create rhythmic compositions. Object has complex control system with possibility to add or delete "voices", change tempo of whole sequence or individually for each voice, to change number and direction of steps.

The project is created specially for Open Codes exhibition in ZKM center, dedicated to codes and programming in art. On one side, Ivy is a representation of an archaic method of electronic music programming for analog synthesizers. On the other side - gigantic scale and obsessive multiplication of simple primitive elements turns this project into an art installation, that is referring to the topic of graphic and physical organization of parameters in electronic music.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/ivy"

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::vtol:: volfram expander

::vtol:: volfram expander #5 - FM sounds from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

Custom Volfram Expander made for Nordvargr http://www.nordvargr.com/
"circuit bent Buddha Machine as part of Volfram Expander #5 with diffrent FM modulation sources

Volfram Expander - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​expander.html"

::vtol:: volfram + doepfer a117 and a147 from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Volfram controlled by Doepfer a117 and a147 via CV and GATE inputes on Volfram Expander + Volte-Face as random CV generator for a147

Volfram - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​vol.html

Volfram Expander - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​expander.html

Volte-Face - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​volte.html"

R x2 by ::vtol:: and anastasiya alekhina

R x2 by ::vtol:: and anastasiya alekhina from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Kinetic sound installation.

Computer algorithm collects from Internet the data on power and depth of shocks in planet's crust and captures all the earthquakes above 0.1 (Richter magnitude scale). On an average day there are up to 200 of such shocks. This data is converted into signals that control the motors which are attached to Thunder Drum acoustic drums.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/r-x2

authors:

anastasia alekhina
::vtol::

Mars Gallery, Moscow, 2015"

vtol volfram expander

::vtol:: volfram controlled by MFB Kraftzwerg via Volfram Expander #6 from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

::vtol:: volfram controlled by Doepfer Dark Energy via volfram Expander #6 from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"more info -

volfram - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​vol.html

volfram expander#6 - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/​vto/​diy/​expander.html#ex6"

::vtol:: diy noise guitar >

::vtol:: diy noise guitar > from VTOL on Vimeo.
"my new custom diy project - read about - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/guitar.html"

Update: one more video

::vtol:: diy noise guitar > from VTOL on Vimeo.

::vtol:: modulator

::vtol:: modulator from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

Another fascinating creation by ::vtol::. The sound that you hear is software. The hardware controls the sound.

"I have always perceived the concept of modulation in music as a complex cyclical visual system: the ricochets of the crest of a wave constricted in its own amplitude, rotations within rotations (in particular, if the shape of the wave is aspiring for a sinus), compound pendulums and centrifugal spirals. Meanwhile, I actually experienced the frequency modulation as synesthesia a long time ago – I had such an experience when playing a guitar, with the oscillatory movements of my fingers accurately and demonstrably accompanying the palpable vibrations of the string.

The modulator is a system consisting of electric motors and a composite hand, with a passive magnet installed at the end. The Hall effect sensors register the movements of the magnet. This only occurs if the rotation phases coincide in such a way that both composite parts of the hand with the magnet at the end and the senor are on one line. After registration of the magnet’s movements, the status of the entire system shifts -– there is a change of pace, the direction of the rotation of one or both motors changes, and most importantly - the parameters of the sound synthesis. The more frequently the system mutates, the more complex the sound becomes and vice-versa, the more infrequently, the tone becomes more diffuse. As the Hall effect sensors register not only the existence of a magnetic field, but also its strength and polarity, another three additional magnets have been installed on the object on the rotating axes which modulate the position of the main magnet when it is all of a sudden in close proximity to them. Taken all together, they form a composite dynamic system in a closed loop and in a constant state of mutation and modulation of its state rotating in an endless sound composition.

soft:

- axoloti

hard:

- axoloti
- 3 custom made Hall-sensors
- 5 dc motors
- custom electronics
- 1 channel sound system

Moscow, 2018."

Be sure to see the vtol label for more.

::vtol:: Sonora + Volte-Face "Space jam"

::vtol:: Sonora + Volte-Face "Space jam" from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

more info - vtol.tk

::vtol:: volnovod

::vtol:: volnovod from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"I’ve came up with the idea of this device during a long flight, when my iPod earbuds (the standard white ones) got caught up yet again. The wires of this manufacturer are covered with special rubber that grants the earbuds a unique feature: they do not fracture or bend; they just intertwine endlessly, which prolongs their lifespan and prevents contact damage. Therefore, in a typical coincidence, my wire intertwined many times and I noticed that it resembled a complex multidimensional wave. The concept of the machine came across my mind at once: a machine that would deliberately intertwine this kind of wire in different ways, then a camera would digitize it and a special algorithm would transform the result in a parametric graph controlling different parameters of sound synthesis.

The device ‘Volnovod’ is a result. I think of this device as a hybrid machine, which combines a kinetic sound sculpture and a unique controller/tool. It bases on the concept of some small phenomenon being adapted, raised and automatized. Thus, a very peculiar for me combination of a tangible wave and depending on it soundwaves worked out.

The device operates in automatic mode, semi-automatic mode or manual mode. Two stepper motors constantly turn and intertwine the wire, moulding different types of waves. Motors operate in accordance with the random numbers-based program and randomly change the direction. Still they rotate within the preset number of steps range to prevent the wire from over-intertwining. The camera shoots a wire in front of a black background, which makes possible to achieve the highest picture contrast. Nine wave pictures are saved. Later they can be updated in automatic mode or refiled manually in semi-automatic mode or manual mode. These nine shots then morph into graphic tables with resolution of 270 x 240 points. The tables are the base to control sound synthesis options. The program can generate parameters in any suitable format: MIDI, OSC, CV. It allows to use it freely as within the system as with external devices. Graphs reading can be written down automatically or manually, with different velocity in many directions. The wave form can also put to use as a harmonic oscillator wave (akin to wavetable synthesis).

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/volnovod"

software:

- pure data
- max/smp

hardware:

- stepper motors
- 2 channel sound system
- arduino uno
- lcd monitor
- iPhone / iPod headphones wire

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::vtol:: matreshka generators workshop

::vtol:: matreshka generators workshop from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"sp. for Pripoy girls noise band - https://www.facebook.com/pripoyband

more info about workshop and device - http://vtol.cc/filter/diy/matreshka-generators-ws"

"Matreshkas are traditional russian wood toys colored by hand in a folk art-style. But this is a new generation of Matreshkas. During this workshop participants will create a special sound producing object and piece of art at the same time.

The electronic part is a single chip (4093) synth with several functions for creating a complex sound generator. With this example many DIY synth basics like square wave oscillators, amplitude and frequency modulation, and signal summation will be explained.

The provided KIT will include all electronic components and wood parts. All tools required for building it will be available on site. It's preferable if participants have a knowledge of basic soldering.

Participants can bring any materials you want to paint and decorate MGs - markers, paint, plastic parts, hair - anything!!!

photos from 22.02.2014 workshop at The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
sp. workshop for Pripoy girls noise band"

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::vtol:: wave is my nature

::vtol:: wave is my nature from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Interactive kinetic audiovisual installation

The main idea of the installation is the reference to the Wave as the basis of all audiovisual art. The project draws from the theory of Wave–particle duality which considers the light to be a particle and a wave at the same time. In this case, the notion of the 'wave” is uniform for the sound wave, light wave and a 'tangible” kinetic wave with wide amplitude, physically presented in the space as stretched cables moved by a system of motors. The piece also refers to the topic of physical modeling of the wave processes which take place in various media and materials: 'string”, 'data flow”, 'visualisation of sound”, 'sonification of light” etc. In general, the installation can be viewed as a kinetic spacial light installation which reacts to the presence of audience and creates an autonomous sound and light composition.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/wave-is-my-nature"

hard:

- 4 spi led strips
- 4 servo motors
- 2 channel sound system
- arduino mega
- ir motion sensors

soft:

- pure data

Moscow, MARS Center, 2015

::vtol:: klicker workshop

::vtol:: klicker workshop from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

more info - http://vtol.cc/filter/ws/klicker

"My ironical response to modular synths growing market. Computer mouse to eurorack self-clicking module conversion project, specially designed to be build on workshops. Real internet of things to modular synth implementation! Probably the cheapest modular to computer interface. Average materials budget is around 12$. Specially created to be build on workshops. Approximately time of conversion ~ 4-5 hours. Any mouse can be used.

You can use it for triggering anything in your computer using internal LFO or cv/trigger input. Activate you samples, surf on the internet, play games, send messages, place bids on ebay!

26-27.09.2017, Ljudmila, Ljubljana (@Rampa lab)"