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Performance Artist Tim Kaiser Sqwuank

More Circuit-Bent Fun

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The FlangerScope is a combo flanger/reverb/circuit-bent noise thing. The flanger has a cool setting that creates a kind of square wave arpeggiation of the input. Built into a vintage portable oscilloscope.

The X-Tron is a couple of little toys mounted into a vintage communications enclosure. I think the Power Rangers might have been involved with this one. In a recording studio arsenal.

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LumaVox

The Luma Vox is a color organ built out of a "relaxation" machine. I circuit-bent the audio circuit, remounted the circuit board into an old reel to reel case and used electric eye lens' for the lamps. I love surplus!

The Harminox is based on a musical crib toy. Re-mounted into a stainless steel enclosure with added circuit bends controlled via a joy stick. Makes some very dark two note chords and disturbing melodies...

The Event Horizon is based on a "Darth Vader" sound chip- you know, the heavy breathing thing. A little circuit-bending and some reverb and then you've got something! Now in the UK

The Little Shaver gets its name from the case- my electric razor came in it. Goofy little lullaby melodies are demonically warped by the circuit-bent galvanic contacts! FUN!

I call this one The Keypad. It's based on a toy called the "Music Major" which was a plastic red soldier with the keypad on his chest. I found the pitch point on the oscillator and added a control knob. Make love, not war!

The Lullaby Nightmare Machine ended up on this page because I'm out of coffee. A little hand-crank music box mechanism that plays Brahm's Lullaby is mounted inside a steel case with a piezo transducer wired to an octave divider circuit. (nice superflous lamp thing on side, too). Run this puppy through my Modulation Analyzer effect and YOU TOO WILL HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING!

Particle Accelerator Gizmo

The Particle Accelerator Gizmo does either a raygun thing or a lullaby thing- I can't remember. You'd think the biohazard sticker on the back would make it seem obvious- but you'd be wrong!

The Clarivox

The Clarivox is still in the experimental stage. I'm running a tape drive of pure tones through a Dano TalkBox and the whole mess goes through a marching band clarinet. Instead of moving your mouth, you just have to key it.

The NavalVerb has been re-housed a couple of times. It was based on an older ART mono verb unit and works pretty well. I use it most often on circuit-bent devices (like the Event Horizon).

The GlitchGenerator is just that- it generates wiggly streams of gibberish trance. I can't remember who got this one, but it has a cool analog meter on it.

EMG#3

These are a couple more of my Electronic Music Generators. A little circuit-bending goes a long way on these puppies! John Cage and Morton Subotnik would both find something to appreciate here....

EMG#2B

This one was housed in the original case. New paint (and the circuit-bends, of course) along with a nifty little emblem that was a Soviet gymnastics award.

GizmoBox

The Gizmo Box generates glitchy trance loops. Now in the hands of a lawyer in Rhode Island.

Green GizmoBox

The Green Gizmo is similar to the original Gizmo Box with a little more melodic warping possible. Living in Maryland with one of my Speak & Spell projects....

Lil' Gizmo

The Lil'Gizmo was an attempt to build an inexpensive circuit-bent device. But you know what? They're all inexpensive! I don't really charge enough for these things. What am I thinking? I put hours and hours of sweat and passion into this stuff- and for what? Ooops! Got a little carried away there. This is owned by a nice guy in New York.

Jammin' Joy Machine

The Jammin' Joy Machine was based on one of those electronic "drawing" toys. I changed the drawing pad input to a joy stick. This one has actually gone on to the secondary market of Tim Kaiser projects. The original owner sold it on Ebay to someone else...