In case you missed Noon, the first collaboration was a brain-bending, organic, and exquisitely unpredictable analog drum machine. Its 4-channel sibling Moon has opened to preorders, and in this new compact descendant, it’s even more apparent that this is like a breathing, squawking lifeform of a device.
Eli Pechman of Mystic Circuits teamed up with Eric and Landscape to produce an all-passive, rhythmic instrument with four parts. It feels like what a TR-606 would be like in an alternate universe where the Cracklebox had become the most popular electronic instrument ever.
You run voltage through it, but you also reach out and touch it. Here’s their description:
Moon is the smaller, 4-channel descendant of the Noon. Activate and modulate Moon using voltage from external sequencers. No power supply needed. Analog circuits are powered momentarily by incoming gate and control voltage signals, causing them to oscillate and move naturally. When Moon’s channels are combined, they grow, infor,m and process one another in complex rhythmic ways. Momentary power increases the unstable properties and organic textures of analog circuits. The immediacy of simple controls allows for rapid alterations without patching. Each of the four channels is a unique analog circuit with its own characteristics.
There’s no manual yet, but it’s coming. $390 is the preorder price (the same or lower than the final price), with one per customer. Shipipng estimated this winter. And wouldn’t you like Moon to show up this winter, like Santa Claus, or maybe like the Martians in Santa Claus versus the Martians?
