Beautiful Steampunk Synths

29Jun08

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Sonofcastille has published a set of videos demonstrating beautiful steampunk-style synths and noise generators.

Here are a few of the coolest:

WSG

This is Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator circuit off of musicfromouterspace.com, plus audio amp scavenged out of a Radio Shack amp. The case was an old telephone from the 70s.

Captain Nemo’s Beat Box

This is a circuit bent Realistic/Radio Shack drum machine from the 80s.

Radio Free Mars

Tags: circuit bending, circuit bent, DIY projects, noise machines, steampunk, synth DIY

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1 Claudio on Jun 29th, 2008 said:

Simple gorgeous. I wish more synths would come out with these designs instead of mimicking the look from the 70s and 80s (not that those are bad, either :)).
2 synthhead on Jun 29th, 2008 said:

Claudio - good point!

Wouldn’t it be fantastic to work from the helm of a steampunk console, instead of another boring interface like Yamaha’s MM8?
3 Claudio on Jun 30th, 2008 said:

Heck yes! It would definitely make for some stage presence, just as the modular synths did back in the day (and even today). I would definitely pay for something with a nice steampunk look and feel.
4 elaine jameson on Jun 30th, 2008 said:

These are gorgeous, but I’d like to see this with instruments that are more musical.

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When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan’s Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. — Stephen Halpern

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