Today's wild idea.

[Dave Halliday]

>> I was talking to a friend, and we were thinking about playing with CV's,
>> ADC's, and speech synthesizer chips... It seems like you might be able to
>> get neat effects out of that, especially by running the output from a
>> sequencer of some kind into the ADC, and the output of that into the speech
>> chip (I'm thinking here of the kind that lets you use a byte or so to 
>> select
>> formants-- didn't Radio Shack make something like this?). 

>     A friend has a book called experimental musical instruments and in it 
>     there's a gutted speak and spell that has a silver platform and three 
>     balls that you can roll around on it to change the sound... wild... 
>     I can't remember who made it.
>     I'll find out who published the book if anyone's interested.... it 
>     came with a CD but i'm not sure if it featured that instrument or 
>     just some sound work by the maker of it....


Jopurnal of Experimental Musical Instruments and the person's name is 
Reed Ghazala ( and I am mangling the last name... )

He calls this "circuit bending" - he takes common electronic objects, 
opens them and starts probing between points on the circuit board with 
various resistors and capacitors.

Heard a few tapes and it is amazing organic sounding stuff!!!
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