another instrument i made recently: a musical instrument inspired by the optigan (a light-tone instrument and a kind of predecessor of the sampler).
my instrument generates the tone with a light depended resistor which kann be controlled by an LED. the speed and patterns on the disc determine the frequency and shape of the resulting wave form.
currently it has 8 keys (8 different pitches) and a manual pitch bend.
the instrument was made from an old cd-walkman 8 LDRs & 8 LEDs plus some passive components, 8 switches and voltage regulator.
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Written February 16 2009 , Tags: optigan, music, light, LDR, diy
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amazing work again! i'd love to hear an orchestra made up of your mad instruments
 that is f'n great.
that thing sounds awesome. great jorb.
Holy crap dude, that's excellent!
That is <3!!! I would have never thought of it hah.
fook my memory sucks!! this reminds me of these amazing instruments I once saw on the internetz. maybe someone posted a link on here?...can't find them now
 they were kinda big cans on turntables with lights inside. it had pipes around the outside with LDRs in that pointed at the can. you punched holes in the can walls (at different heights for different notes/sounds/LDRs) to make a sequence. was kinda scratchable too anyone seen this?sAMsKi said: "amazing work again! i'd love to hear an orchestra made up of your mad instruments "i do perform from time to time. last time at club transmediale with the institute for transacoustic research. next time here in austria near vienna at this incredibly awesome exhibition in between and with all this ultra-vintage gear: link and i am working on the ultimate instrument: a multitimbral super instrument consisting of all of my stuff. well maybe not all but some of them. with only ONE power plug and not 20 as it is now. and one midi port to control them all. i just started etching my first circuit boards... holy wow JP! that sounds amazing. exactly the sort of thing i dream of doing but will never do. do you have a day job?
when it is done i will come to vienna to experience it. this sort of thing really gets me going. plus i have a dear friend in vienna who i have never visited there...he's a mad composer dude too - hehe. edit: GREAT WORK! fucking rad, excellent work there
@sAMsKi:
no i don't have time for a day job. somehow i manage to survive without. maybe i know your friend in vienna? it's not a huge city with not that many mad composers. Inventive stuff -- I caught this from hecanjog's twitter, but didn't realise it was an emmer!
goddamn so cool!!
jp: not wishing to take over your nice blog with this 'people i know in vienna' crap, i have sent you an emmail
oh, the joy of no day job...i loves my job but so much to acheive in life....and soooooo little time. woop! badass!
we the ss awesome.
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