Creating a hardware instrument requires a voluminous quantity of courage. The sheer number of steps involved, layers of complexity, potential pitfalls and distractions are so great that it's really quite incredible that any musical hardware is created. Couple that reality with the difficulty of competing with large corporations that carry emotional cachet such as Roland or Korg, and it can seem like a retelling of David and Goliath, or Roland and Polyend, with one wielding a TB-303 and the other

^I've put up a 3 part, 39 minute audio marathon on my bandcamp page today featuring sounds created in 2004 using a bunch of different tools. The individual sounds are also included as bonus material/flacs, for those wanting to process further, potentially use in your own work ;) . Creative commons, non-commercial, attribute + share-a-like license applies.

Eric Pitra references the modulation effect that occurs on a radio when flipping between two stations as an inspiration for his latest creation, Stereo Field. That find is one of those divergent moments in life that can act as a subversively transformative catalyst.