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Subject: Steam Powered Sequencer

From: Paul Bower <paul@...>
Date: 2010-08-31

hello all,
i've been quiet for a while, i recently felt compelled to buy a steam engine on ebay, and then hatched a plan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nsrPFEGPYg

you'll recognise the MOTM120 sequence with a little variation courtesy of some CGS modules
the dynamo is just regulating the tempo of a MOTM320 LFO via it's V/Oct input

i did spend most of the bank holiday monday building a steam powered pulse generator (add a rotating disc and a pair of commutators) but the steam engine wasn't powerful enough to power my clunky transmission (bits of old tape machines, the shaft from a coffee percolator, bits of hard disk and a hairdryer)

maybe next weekend :-)

cheers
paul

Paul Bower
Un! Recordings