WIRING THE ORGAN FOR (MORE) SOUND
August 2006

Per Platou helped out to put 2 contact microphones inside the organ and connect them to an analogue sound filter called Filter Factory.

Click on image below for details:

Though the mixer/amplifier/speakers shown in the image above will not be the ones used in the organ, the set-up gives me a chance to play the organ and experience the various ways both its music and the menachnics of producing sound can be modified to produce electro-acoustic effects. These will eventually come out of two phonograph horns placed on the left and right side of the player.

I find it difficult to remember the settings I made on the Filter Factory, so I'm documenting settings like this:

Once I have got to know more about what I want out of the filter factory, I will start to work on controlling it via midi. For the time being I am happy to continue to experiment. This may seem like a strange attitude, but I am not a musician. Though I have used audio technology as a means of manipulating and generating visuals, and have some experience with working with sound via video editing, I am a novice when it comes to both playing the organ and manipulating the sound it makes. I have no method in this madness, except listening to the results and responding to them.

From the experience with working with sound emitted via the phonograph horns in the installation "in Death Valley ...." (see link below: Developing the Emotion organ via collaboration, and vice-versa) I have decided not to use more than two phonograph horns for emitting electro acoustic sound. Stereo sound is enough for the time being. (I think I will install lamps in the remaining 4 horns).

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PREVIOUS RELATED POSTS:

REPAIRING AND MODIFYING THE PUMP ORGAN
ONGOING PROCESS

ORGAN ADDITIONS: (SYN)AESTHETICS & FUNCTION
PHONOGRAPH HORNS
DEC 2005

MEETING WITH PER PLATOU
SUBJECT: AUDIO FOR THE EMOTION ORGAN
DECEMBER 2005

DEVELOPING THE EMOTION ORGAN VIA COLLABORATION (AND VICE VERSA!)
MAY 2006

 

 

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