hi-
I make electronic sound instruments, and I have just completed one
that treats sound stochastically in a double digital buffer, controlled
by an analog brain. It is called the srine, and you can look and hear
it at my website at:
http://www.rainbowrandom.net/srine
I'd love to hear comments or discussion about the potentials of such
instruments in your music.
Also, there is documentation of a project I did under the Daniel
Langlois Foundation on my site- I just got back from a tour of the
states playing
shinths- simply touchable, breakable, deconstructable circuit boards:
http://www.rainbowrandom.net/shinths
here's a paragraph about the srine:
The srine ambrazier combines 8bit digidelays, analog synthesizers,
analog brains, and leather-clad nipple-buttons to make a unique stereo
synthesizer/sampler/surgeon/deconstructor... The interface is simple and
built for spontaneity - there are no menus to scroll through and every
feature can be controlled immediately with one button push or knob turn.
It provides a unique mode of interaction with sound, by dynamically
(allowing anything from light layering to heavy punching-in) inserting
it into twin digital buffers. It has a built-in oscillator, an external
input, a silence insertion, and the so-called royalty mode, where one
buffer samples the opposing one to create stereo spacialized sounds. The
digital buffers themselves can hold up to 2 minutes of material, and
their parameters- speed, breakpoint, loop, direction- are controlled by
a randomizing analog brain, a rambrain; with this you can adjust the
buffers to skip through material, modulate speed wildly, loop endlessly
forwards and backwards, and stochastically explore and generate the
material within. The instrument is finished in fine leather (secondhand
purchased from furniture factories) not for kitsch, but for utility: the
surface is warm and soft, and the buttons are soft nipples formed into it.
thanks!
peter b
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