Sight And Sound Combine In This Engaging Synthesizer Sculpture

We’ll generally have a gentle location for circuit sculpture tasks nearly anything with components supported on pleasant tidy rows of brass wires normally captures our creativeness. But insert to that a little little bit of mild and a good deal of audio, and you get one thing like this hybrid synthesizer sculpture that genuinely instructions interest.

[Eirik Brandal] calls his development “corwin stage,” and describes it as “a generative dual voice analog synthesizer.” It’s built with a extensive-open architecture that invitations exploration and serves to pull the eyes — and ears — into the piece. The lowest level of the sculpture has all the “boring” digital things — an ESP32, the LED motorists, and the electronic-to-analog converters. The next stage up has the far more visually exciting analog circuits, developed generally “dead-bug” design on a framework of brass wires. The user interface, largely a collection of pots and switches, lives

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