[sdiy] Chemical Synth

[mikael at mikmo.dk]

Liquid synths ?

Well maybee Bucket brigades aren't such a bad idea anyway :-)

Mikael


Citat cheater <cheater at salsa.pl>:

> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:22:46 -0700, Doug Forbes <av599 at lafn.org> wrote:
>
> > Saltwater and dissimilar metals will develop a small voltage. The
> > combination acts as a battery. Chemical rectifiers work the same way. So it
> > is likely that the combination would produce some variation in voltage as
> > the ion exchange takes place. I suspect that if there is this effect that
> > table salt in water would do the same thing and that if this is the
> > mechanism producing the sound saltwater from the ocean has little to do
> with
> > it.
> >
> > Doug Forbes
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> That's where the sounds come from indeed - corrosion is bound with creating
> voltage cells. That's why, for example, there are banks of metals on ships
> which
> are less (more? I finished my hs chemistry class over three years ago...)
> electronegative than what the ship is made out of. Those metals then
> create the positive pole with the salty sea water, and it's those banks of
> metals
> which give up to corrode instead of the construction metal in the ship.
>
> That's a good, old safeguard mechanism so ships don't get a hole. After the
> metal
> banks are done with, you can just put new ones in.
>
> So anyways, that's where the voltage comes from. And the amperage?
> You can hear the sweeps and zips, but no pops. To remind, it's the amperage
> that creates the sound and frequency in electronic music (and amps, like in
> the
> circuit). Comparing this to a normal battery (which just gives nothing, and
> static
> if you move the connected cables around the anode/catode), I guess it all
> breaks
> down to the fact that, as some might know, water is a fluid.
> This fluid then allows the positive charges to move as well as negative
> charges.
> This creates impetum forces, which create the sweeps: as positive charges get
> closer
> to the negative charges, resistance lessens, thus amperage increases.
>
>
> No, you *can't* hear "atoms hitting atoms", and it's not getting amplified.
> But electricity resulting from that IS, if that's what you meant, Michael :)
>
>
>
> cheers.
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>