Damn

rest in peace, Ray Wilson.

Jam Jar's bigger multiheaded brother

made a follow-up on the Jam Jar for an exhibition based around one man's huge hifi collection.
decided to mix my own collection of "useful things to one day use" with his. i used 24 jam jars i found in his garage (used to store nuts and bolts), put in 24 mini speakers, driven by 24 new amplifiers (simple 386 circuit for you electronerds out there).
dug up a pcb containing a full octave set of oscillators i had lying around - used to be the heart of a very disposable crappy italian organ - and added 12 dividers: et voila, 2 octaves of square wave goodness. tweaked the oscillators' caps to end up with a 60/40 PW wave for improved harmonics, so the 'wah' sound jumps out a bit more when you twist the lids.
the wooden base i made from the man's old shelves. recycling ftw!

exhibition was quite funny, nice to watch the audience go wild on this thing.
video or sound coming soon, hopefully.

Principium 2.1 in full effect!

i still can't quite believe it, but it happened - the bits i chopped out of the 8-hour performance that was the presentation of Principium 2.0 got etched onto vinyl!
may i proudly present, my first full length release on the wonderful Ultra Eczema label: Principium 2.1..

no reason not to get them while they're hot. 300 copies y'all!

we had a lovely presentation at Stadslimiet, showing the history and possible future of the Principium series. there was an original by Vaast Colson, the Casio 1.0 version, my own copy of the 2.0 vinyl+electronics, and a preview of a vague dreamy idea to turn all 12 records back into a mellotron-sample-playback instrument. right now it's running on Pd/Ableton, but i'm hoping to ditch the laptop altogether some day for a 2.2 version, or something.