[sdiy] Chemical Synth

[Richard Wentk]

At 18:48 02/07/2004 -0700, Glen wrote:
>At 11:47 AM 7/2/04 , Metzger, Michael A wrote:
> >
> >The Buchla model would be the "Swill of Uncertainty"
>
>I think that's sold in some restaurants as "coffee".   ;)

I'm reminded of those kid's drinks that are a luminous and impossible shade 
of light blue. *Nothing* you put in your mouth should ever be that colour.

But I digress. While you people are clearly nuts, I think a chemical synth 
has interesting possibilities of the staring eyes, lab coat and wild hair 
sort.

There are chaotic and dissipative processes that cycle at repeatable rates, 
which would do for an oscillator. I expect there's some way to create 
damping as well, for a filter effect. Amplitude and ring modulation might 
be harder to arrange, but you could always cheat and use electronics for 
those. ;-)

The big plus is your synth would look like a Hollywood test tube 
monstrosity *and* the chaotic processes would make the chemistry flash on 
and off in real time in unlikely but entrancing colours.

Honestly - how cool would that be? :-)

Richard