Sight And Sound Combine In This Engaging Synthesizer Sculpture
2 min readWe’ll normally have a smooth location for circuit sculpture jobs everything with elements supported on wonderful tidy rows of brass wires constantly captures our imagination. But increase to that a very little little bit of light and a whole lot of sound, and you get some thing like this hybrid synthesizer sculpture that definitely instructions attention.
[Eirik Brandal] calls his creation “corwin level,” and describes it as “a generative dual voice analog synthesizer.” It is crafted with a wide-open up architecture that invites exploration and serves to pull the eyes — and ears — into the piece. The least expensive amount of the sculpture has all the “boring” electronic things — an ESP32, the LED motorists, and the electronic-to-analog converters. The next level up has the additional visually interesting analog circuits, designed generally “dead-bug” model on a framework of brass wires. The person interface, mainly a collection of pots and switches, lives on this amount, as does a SeeedStudio WIO terminal, which is used to exhibit a spectrum analyzer of the seems created.
Shifting up a little bit, there is a seemingly incongruous vacuum tube overdrive together with a electrical power amp and speaker in an acrylic enclosure. A vertical element of thick acrylic towers in excess of all and homes the synth’s delay line, and the mild pipes that snake as a result of the sculpture pulse in time with sequencer gatherings. The online video below shows the synth in action — the tunes that it generates in no way really seems the exact same two times, and sounds like almost nothing we’ve heard right before, except perhaps briefly when we listened to a little something like the background audio from Logan’s Operate.
Hats off to [Eirik] for yet another terrific-looking and wonderful-sounding develop you might remember that his “cwymriad” caught our awareness earlier this year.
