What is the point

Cowboys will ask me, now, what is the point of all this oscillator business, saying it like "bid-ness".

I will say then, that it is me, searching for something that makes a rhythm, a rhythm that changes, instead of sticking to the same old same old.

Serge does it with modulations all over the place.

Buchla does it with source of uncertainty.

Benjolin does it with the rungler.

Sidrazzi does it with a chaos nob, CocoQuantus too.

The Roolz Rhythm oscillators (it is a drum machine) should make some sort of relabi, real easy. For that reference, read John Berndt's texte, Relabi, the self erasing pulse.

Trick is, there are many ways to achieve Relabi. A blunt approach is "send random voltages into a VCO". The Sidrazzi (and John's way too) is to make a ring of intermodulating oscillators, approaching chaos, which is different from random. Also known as recursive torque.

The Roolz did do this, a while back, with one transistor per oscillator! With voltage control, though, there are wrenches thrown into the recursion...

Relaxation Oscillator

Thinking of the rolz-patterns. They are made up of multivibrators, with extra stages 3 or more, 3 being mentioned in "Oscillators", a book by Delton T Horn, as an exotic waveform. I explored it in "Pretty Papers" in LMT, and found it is exotic because it is a paradox spyral. It works very well and with voltage control produces a wide range of unexpected results.

Trying to preserve the original spontaneity of connections in Rolz, but adding voltage control for each roll. Now again hitting up 4QD-TEC iconoclastic article on PUJT, and their snappy Schmidtt abilities. But a relaxation oscillator is a different backbone than a multi-vibrator oscillator. Is there a gray-zone between the two composed of mixtures?

Think of your own relaxation oscillator: hard work produces "product", followed by a snappy, hoppy beer. A multi-vibrator is more like the sun and the moon, crescent low in the clear night, the luminous cities illuminating its orb. The multivibrator was made up of cells that do not oscillate on their own, normal sensors. The heart's cells oscillate even when there's only one.

Currently I have three drawings on this table:

1. A compound of PUJT relaxation oscillators, in a larger form like a multi-vibrator.
2. A multi-vibrator made up of enhancement-type MOSFETS. The goal/gaol is to have a sort of loop of sense-units that only provide negative feedback, so there is a sort of built-in undefined behaviour. This goal is a gaol because it may be a never-ending quest.
3. A simple 4000 series schmidtt trigger, a diode, cap, res, in the classic sawtooth jelly bean config.

Super Script

One of the virtues of SuperCollider 2 running on OS9, is that it breaks from tradition of coders everywhere, to put one's code in courier

Instead, SuperCollider 2 treats your special SC2 code as a texte, which is also known in the 90s apple-camp as "Script", using "applescript". All in all, this means you can use a font called "Apple Chancery" for your code. This font was designed by Steve Jobs after taking a calligraphy class.

click the image to explore my current rig, "mulberry", which will be seen soon in a youtube video.

Technique of YANNI

Heard when young, an interview of "The Greek Musical Tycoon": to state that compositions are heard in his own mind, and they are polished there too.

If you don't write things down on a piece of paper, they will be ready for you when you need them, like an exotic joke "Jol Myun", when you cross the right street.

However, papers do accumulate. They are the result of nervous scribbling on trains, in the bathroom, and after dreams. These scribblings, when entered into the computer, do become most of the precious "filler" of compositions.

Wiring, Striated versus Nomadic, Layout, Mac Cargo Cult, Drilldust, Goat-Smoked Magazine

Wiring

of freeform Sidrazzi Organus

part of Ye Olde Pub Kiosk synth-system.

node wire distributed by distance from there bord.

4:34 PM, February 4, 2012

Striated versus Nomadic

matrix drilled 5/64" holes,

in cherry, pin worms

(wormwood)

Laying out the piezos before the glueing of barres.

Cargo cult macintush re-manifestations

Tetrazzi Organ installed in PowerBook

by Jack Patterson

multi-colored drilldust surrounds the pentagon of holes/

and a Goat-Smoked magazine page

waits behind m'list of USB todos.

to CLAMP, a clamping, an un-clamping, mulberry clamping, mulberry in the camp-truck

to CLAMP, a clamping, an un-clamping

to clamp mulberry

to clamp walnut

catalpha, sassafras

a mulberry clamping

mulberry in the clamp-truck

chunks of walnut