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One Laser + Hourglass + Circuits = Crazy Gijs Noise Generator
Now, here’s the way to do an analog noise generator oscillator: use grains of sand. As falling sand interrupts the flow of a laser to a light-sensitive sensor (a photodetector), the circuit produces random oscillations of sound. It’s the latest brilliant creation of mad Dutch scientist Gijs Gieskes, the industrial designer-turned-musician whose inventions often center […]
Read moreIn Electric Colors, New Video Generators from Critter and Guitari, Gieskes
Video synthesis hardware is suddenly on fire – and you don’t need a fortune to get into it. From two legendary makers of audio electronics, we have two fantastic new designs for video synths, available on the cheap for your psychedelic optic nerve-massaging fun.
Peter Kirn - August 29, 2011
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Gijs’ Servo Sequencer, Opto-Mechanical Music, Events in Breda + Eindhoven
The Servo Sequencer with its hypnotic-looking optical disc. Photo courtesy Gijs Gieskes. Artists Gijs Gieskes’ sequencers are almost like physical, mechanical software, an expression of musical structure in object form. As such, even as they make strange sounds, they become musical sculpture. His latest Servo Sequencer combines optical and mechanical process, as frequency circles spin […]
Circuit-Bent Browser: Webcrawlers Make Live Visuals
Peter Kirn - February 18, 2009
Archive Motion Music tech
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