Satansynth 4010666
So my lovely droogs, how goeth the Helliday Season? Here’s a digital card from me to yous.
Holidays are fucking hell. Since when has showing your love or appreciation for someone become damn near entirely based on how much money you’re willing to blow on material things for them? The hyper-consumerification of the whole fucking world needs to just goddam stop. People buying shit nobody wants with money they don’t have, and all for what? A capitalist, materialistic shit show. Fucking holidays. Hellidays indeed!!!
Now that that’s outta the way... I’ve built a half dozen or so drone synths up until now. Had the itch to go at it again but wanted to do something different. Hmmmm. Howzabout instead of controlling the pitch of the oscillators with a pot, we did it with photoresistors? These are resistors that change resistance based on how much light they receive, if ya didn’t know. Yeah cool. And let’s use five of those, mount them on flexible metal post-like dealies, and arrange them in a circle pointing inwards, at the goddam tips of a motherfucking five-pointed star, and and and let’s finish the sumbitch by actually drawing a pentacle (pentagram, whatever) on the top panel, and hot-glueing or double-sided-taping a candle holder in the center and run it in the dark off candlelight!!!! So yeah I made one.
I added red LEDs between the vertices of the star and the lines that connect them (in the triangle parts I guess), as you can see. Very interesting. The type of photoresistor I used isn’t one I usualy see. I’m not so sure they produce “musical” results. I mostly lower the voltage sag knob and fiddle with the LFO speed to produce weird rhythmic loops. Very neat thing though. Built it into a semi-vintage cigar box that measures about 25cm a side. Topped the panel with a sheet of 2mm black acrylic (plexi?). Drew the pentacle with Molotow Chrome (and it IS goddam chrome, those markers are well worth the price). You can hear it in action via the links provided in my last post. Fuck yeah. Maybe I’ll fucking summon a bona-fide goddam demon with this thing!
