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This sounds amazing :-) I wish I hadn't heard that I am struggling to 
get the money together for 6 modules :-)...but if this ever comes out I 
will have to get a second job or sell one of my kids :-)

One thing that I am not sure about is when Grant mentioned that the 
Buchla 200e he didn't want to compete against, is he saying the Wiard is 
close to a Buchla ? Again I dont own a Buchla or Wiard never seen them 
in the flesh, so was just curious about the comment.

Ross



kursk53704 wrote:
>
> There are two people that I worship: Noam Chomsky and Brian Eno. I 
> serve many: my
> family and friends and my many students (I teach history in a Madison, 
> Wisconsin HS). I'm
> an avid reader, I worry for my kids, I love my wife, etc, etc. But I 
> do have to say that, aside
> from my loves and responsibilities, modular experimentation is . . . 
> it fills an artistic/
> spiritual desire that couldn't be filled my another means I suppose. 
> In this regard Grant is
> almost, for me, in the same category as Chomsky and Eno. There are 
> some differences:
> they are rich, Grant lives on the edge of poverty; I can generally 
> understand Chomsky and
> Eno's ideas, while I often have no fucking idea what Grant is talking 
> about (too technical);
> I've never met either Chomsky or Eno, while sometimes I drive down to 
> Milwaukee to pick
> up a module and have a chat with Grant. I always look forward to the 
> occasion.
>
> Last time I was there a few months ago to pick up the Borg 2, Grant 
> described this new
> instrument he wanted to design. A synth in a suitcase, like a Synthi. 
> He didn't go into too
> much detail (in which case I would have been lost in the details) but 
> it basically would be
> something like the following: his new oscillator, a beefed-up noise 
> ring, envelooper,
> boogie and a borg 2 (for filtering and lo pass gate applications), JAG 
> and joystick, and
> some other utilitarian circuits. It would have a touch capacitor 
> keyboard and a
> microprocessor for added sequencing/modulaion. All in a samsonite like 
> briefcase and all
> behind a single faceplate (which would serve to lower the overall 
> cost). I don't remember if
> it would have a pin matrix for patching. I'm not sure if I asked about 
> this. In any case this
> sounds awesome, especially for live and/or other portable 
> possibilities. I hope Grant goes
> through with this. The 300 series is a bit out of reach for many of us 
> (both technically and
> financially). Maybe this other design could fill a desire that could 
> both satisfy those who
> can't , or won't, acquire a 300, and provide a sort of commercially 
> successful product for
> Grant.
>
> I liked Doc's comment on how Grant's business model is perhaps a 
> protest against the
> mainstream's distorted and consumption oriented freefall where demands 
> and "needs" are
> created in an endless orgy of materialism (maybe I'm exaggerating 
> Doc's point). As always,
> I wish Grant good health, success, and good luck as I patiently wait 
> to see where he takes
> Wiard next.
>
> Bill
>
>