[sdiy] Random Voltage Generation

[matti]

k, so I've been watching _eraserhead_, and thinking.....

wouldn't one such mechanical system for those 400 years of shooting people
_be_ those 400 years of shooting at people? In eraserhead there is the
music of the piping thumping whistling ....pipes, engines, and whatnot.
each of these whatnots performs mathematical equations, just like analog
computers, and just like analog synthesizers. So instead of modeling the
analog method of modeling real systems, create a real system that models
these real systems? The biggest modular would be hardpressed to make the
sort of sounds you can get from a diesel engine.


Maybe I'm being obtuse..


On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Grant Richter wrote:

> That is not that far out.
>
> If you consider you could build a mechanical system (say pendulums with
> magnets) record the movements onto computer, and then play them back at high
> speed to shift the waveforms into the audio range.
>
> There is probably tons of slow datalogging files that could be reformatted
> to "fool" the computer in thinking it is an audio file.
>
> I think someone tried that with a years worth of seismic data. And then
> there was the "Earths Magnetic Field" record.
>
> > I suppose next someone could build a mechanical analog synth (I picture the
> > front panel work of the Bergfotron on steroids) that saves the results by
> > cutting grooves in a plastic disc like the RCA Mark II. Wouldn't even
> > require any tubes or BBD's to operate...
>
>

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