Fried my non-musician brain already with @madamdatasoundlabs “mx01” - an indirect way of making oscillators via feedback loop ⚙️⚙️⚙️. It’s like creating a self-vibrating machine with invisible strings. Er, no. That’s HXP’s mechanism. This… it is like… er… Im trapping myself in this oscillating dead zone.
Finishing #hxp02 with breadboard for myself, i think i have only done 2qty. There are 3-4qty working ones by -a, laying all over the studio and a couple more out in the world. Progressing really slowly.
my brain has been completely consumed by this fascinating phenomenon - the potential to shape voltage into mesmerizing signal waves, as if the waves themselves were guitar strings that played on their own. You see those triangle symbols in the electronic schematic? Imagine them as the strings. Those other symbols along its connecting wire just look like frets to me, tuning the signal that behaves nothing like a steel springy string. It is an invisible electric pulse or pattern of electricity flow we are dealing with, some sort of pressure that can be distorted up and down, and the goal is to make it behave in some erratic patterns. It can also blow things up in smoke if not stablised. Shorted circuit or snapped string happens all the time anyway. -a even made some of these live wires touchable and when your bare skin contacts them, the wave goes wild, spinning into a frenzied haywire dance. All these lines played - a guitar string, a electric wire, a signal on oscilloscope - eventually driven to shift the air around us. -i
Playing BoardWeevil. Meanwhile the washing machine joins in the fun and I’m fending off actual weevils from my neighbour’s rice warehouse. 🥲
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Thanks @yuencheewai for lending us this goodie!
