Okay, so a little backstory. I play in a very on again off again three piece. Initial formation was based around myself and another slinging low tuned, fuzzed out guitars propped up with large, relatively high power tube amplifiers while the third punished a drum kit.
It was fun.
Years pass, life pushes us all around and each time we regroup it's a little different. The other guitarist and myself both have solo noise projects, so while the three piece is inoperative (as it normally is at this point) we're still happy pushing a variety of sounds.
The drummer, however, has grown bored with drums and now plays synth. I miss the drums. It has been pointed out that we can easily deploy a drum machine, but honestly, I don't think the pre-planned framework that comes with programming a beat will mesh well with the loose, play the room sonic fingerprint that is our comfort zone.
So my plan is to play the fucking drums myself. But, since I'm a bit tetched in the head I'm only planning to trot this out once I've properly prepared my drum kit. The current plan is:
1) Install tactile transducers to the resonant heads, and if not cymbals themselves then at least some sheet metal of appropriate proportions. This will allow me to "pipe in" additional signals so I can steer the kit into more of drone machine when needs dictate.
2) I'm designing a small, terribly low fidelity amplifier suited to the task, so I can stuff a dozen or so of them into an enclosure mounted to the floor tom.
3) I figure, while I'm at it, I may as well set about grabbing some cheap microphone elements that I can mount INSIDE the shells, in order to induce oscillation. I haven't settled on anything yet, but will probably wind up with a motley collection of junk from aliexpress or similar. The goal is not to send rockets to the moon, but asses into the couch.
4) since the notion of wildly out of control & ringing drums does not please me, I need to incorporate some sophisticated switching so I can command stuff ON and OFF. I have some matrix switching stuff already roughed out, but this will demand an added layer of programming some firmware for a microcontroller, which is not my comfort zone.
5) I should probably include some piezo triggers on the batter head for interrupts and state changes.
So that's my harebrained scheme for 2025. I've sort of glossed over some things because this post is long enough already, but I'd love to read about other plausibly experimental shit or weather derision or stabs at inducing scope creep.
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Not sure how applicable to your current situation, but here's a channel I'm sure you'll dig:
https://www.youtube.com/@momtnz/videos
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Oh wow, there are a ton of machines I've never even heard of on that channel. Many thanks!Chankgeez wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 10:13 pm
Not sure how applicable to your current situation, but here's a channel I'm sure you'll dig:
https://www.youtube.com/@momtnz/videos
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…...........................…psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
Sweet dealin's: here
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