Sight And Sound Combine In This Engaging Synthesizer Sculpture

We’ll constantly have a smooth spot for circuit sculpture tasks anything at all with factors supported on nice tidy rows of brass wires often captures our creativeness. But incorporate to that a very little bit of gentle and a large amount of seem, and you get some thing like this hybrid synthesizer sculpture that seriously instructions consideration.

[Eirik Brandal] phone calls his development “corwin stage,” and describes it as “a generative twin voice analog synthesizer.” It is created with a huge-open architecture that invitations exploration and serves to pull the eyes — and ears — into the piece. The lowest stage of the sculpture has all the “boring” digital stuff — an ESP32, the LED drivers, and the digital-to-analog converters. The next degree up has the additional visually fascinating analog circuits, created mainly “dead-bug” model on a framework of brass wires. The consumer interface, mainly a sequence of pots and switches, lives on this stage, as does a SeeedStudio WIO terminal, which is utilised to exhibit a spectrum analyzer of the appears created.

Relocating up a little bit, there is a seemingly incongruous vacuum tube overdrive alongside with a energy amp and speaker in an acrylic enclosure. A vertical factor of thick acrylic towers over all and homes the synth’s hold off line, and the light pipes that snake by means of the sculpture pulse in time with sequencer gatherings. The video clip underneath exhibits the synth in action — the songs that it generates hardly ever actually seems the exact 2 times, and sounds like practically nothing we’ve heard right before, except potentially briefly when we listened to a thing like the background audio from Logan’s Operate.

Hats off to [Eirik] for a further excellent-searching and good-sounding establish you could don’t forget that his “cwymriad” caught our consideration previously this calendar year.

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