Month: May 2006

found a piano keyboard in the garbage, right next to a box of interesting but used footware.

so it gets a new life:

!http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/mouseOrgan001.jpg!

!http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/mouseOrgan002.jpg!:http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/baby-seal-with-an-oscillosc.jpg

…presenting: “the mouse organ”

for various reasons it should actually be called the “baby-seal organ”, for this version pictured above. the keys were to control some VCO type devices. keyboard was split into three sections, each with a series of resistors. it worked but didn’t get finished.
back of an old cassette deck makes for a pretty decent control pannel.

it’s back to the drawingboard for now though.

there’s a few stories behind this thing. suffice to say it was wired worng, looked like this:

!http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg002a.JPG!:http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg002c.mp3

and sounded like “this”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg002c.mp3
and “this”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg002a.mp3

an earlier attempt, also wired wrong, looked like this:

!http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg002.JPG!
!http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg003.JPG!

and sounded like “this”:http://www.mediumrecords.com/random/wp-content/wsg001.mp3

circuit was an attempt to build the design from here: “http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH.html”:http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/analogsynth/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH/YOUR_FIRST_SYNTH.html
but i got the pin numbers of the ic wrong. hopefully i can recreate what i did with that in the future (not sure if the picture really tells the story at that point or not) … i jotted some notes down but who know where those might be.