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Week6-Expanded Studio Practice for Twenty-First Century Sound Artists

We build upon the conceptual understanding of signal flow and sonic interaction design explored in the digital domain in previous weeks. We inhabit a material world of circuit boards, electricity, and electronic components where we will solder permanent designs creating durable objects for exploratory sonic accordance.

In this session, we revisit oscillator design from Week One and transfer it onto a permanent PCB.

Dead SynthS

At least I get it work for generating some tiny sounds, so it is not too bad. Otherwise it is like I spend time on a dead synth.

I would say I am quite poor at soldering. I have another two dead synths, one of them was I accidentally put the resistor in the wrong space so I had to take it out… Another one I think the problem was it was originally a very small synth?

Dead Synth 1– issue of one of the resistor is in the wrong place
A very poor FM synthesiser: it was alive in two minutes but with very tiny sounds and it was dying

My friend said it might be the problem the speaker is too small or the signal is not too helpful at the moment. But everything looks fine.

I felt so painful on soldering so I used the 9-volt batteries on another small invention: I took two motors for my cassette and I made them all turn around. My idea of doing this is: The transmission of information will never end when two circles are all turning around.