Do those things react to any external stimuli, such as hormone flood or electrical impulse? Probably not. A firm 90 BPM or somesuch?
Fixed clocks get boring, but you could feed it into some set up that shifts/evolves with counting up beats and some variable sources like barometric pressure, outside temperature, lumens, etc.
I'd be thinking along the lines of analog computing.
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:40 am
by NoiseWiki
Reminds me of an article I read about a doctor who reclaims hardware like this to sell to third world countries. Crematories have to remove them before cremation.
I imagine these would be hard to modify or that is it would be hard to open them
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 9:12 am
by crochambeau
Yeah, I would expect dead simple with redundancy. Not a lot of angles to explore.
It is conceptually interesting though. That said, I would expect actual application to be tethered to the mundane, unless extraordinary efforts along support lines are executed.
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:18 am
by Indeterminacy
An old favorite and a classic noise generating system that I'm going to deploy for Halloween
A childs 78 record player with a contact mic glued to the reproducer. A worn Dewalt concrete blade acts a source material.
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:56 am
by RUBBISH
Indeterminacy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:48 am
A pacemaker.
What to do, trigger device?
I do believe these have some way to remotely monitor and adjust them without removing them from the person?
Was this in somebody's body?
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:56 pm
by Indeterminacy
RUBBISH wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:56 am
Was this in somebody's body?
RUBBISH wrote: ↑Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:56 am
Was this in somebody's body?
Yep.
Wow...cool!
So I not some gear head and my soldering sucks but....maybe it could be circuit bent?
Pacemaker Schematics: The schematics of the pacemaker electronics illustrating
a) the clockwork's micro generator...output?
b) a bridge rectifier
c) a buffer capacity
d) a pacemaker stimulus...input?
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:35 pm
by FAP
I might have to keep my eyes out for VideoNow discs in the future...
Skip to 15:48 if it doesn't already start there:
Re: Experimental approaches to alternative gear.
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:38 pm
by FAP
Old news for those who know me, but I dug through some old photos recently and found a few gems, including
A record made from cardboard (just noisy textural loops):
