Summer Holiday Project 2009-2010 : Keytar version X.x

I have been looking around at circuits that make noise. and how to make them from scratch.
I intend to have a beat element that is able to be triggered in a loop. (using arduino and reed relays?)

A futher refined shape and layout, and a well thought out paint job.... a post project aproach to the unit.

It would be cool to have plugs that could allow the easy recircuiting of the primary circuit. you can change the combonations at will.

maybe effects pedals, either with resistors or parts of circuits...... (circuit bent doorbell????)
potentiometers and switches to control the sound level mixing, or possibly multiple audio outputs....


The first check is to see if it is possible to play a pattern with a button and have it play the beat back with a single input.

conclusion exhibition. suspended animation

For the concluding presentation I decided to go with my favorite project of the studio paper 2, my |«EYTAR

I spent a day painting her up in black and red, tidied up some of the wiring, and suspended her in the center of the room. by 4 wires tied to the roofing.  theres a fun contrast prevalent in the studios and hallways theres all these flat posters of projects on the wall with a 3d object on the ground by the wayside,  and then theres mine not touching the wall or the ground (except a audio cable going to the speaker).  levitating and taking a physical space. you walk around it not past/through it. like a bombast hair metal preformer descending from the roof via a wire crew.

The aucoustic element has been omited from the presentation due to damage to reeds and the risk of putting the foot pump on causing instasbility. 

For the open evening I intend it to be playable by the patrons. you rock up to it, its the normal playing height (sorry short people), its laying midair in a state of suspended animation, and you have a play.







there are 4 pages of supporting material and my notebooks. I wanted to keep this quite simple.